How have I improved as a writer? I am thinking about my action plan as a writer have I improved, have I met the goals I set out to achieve on my first day of class, and what have I learned in this class? I will go over my time in this class and review the various topics I mentioned above and more. Looking back over my time in this class I will critique and praise myself. How I felt about writing when I first started this class compared to how I feel now, I would have to say I am more comfortable with writing.
Reading and writing is extremely important and hard to learn, which is the reason why we learn it when we are very young. Some of my memories of learning to read and write include reading the book Duck On A Bike, and writing on sheets to practice writing letters. Firstly, the book, Duck On A Bike was important for helping me learn how to read. My parents sometimes would read the book to me, until I finally was starting to learn to read, so I tried to read the book. Every now and then, I would try to read a small book like Duck On A Bike until I finally fully learned to read in school.
When I turned into a freshman, I decided to transfer to a deaf school for my high school years and graduated there. By then, my struggles with my writing and reading were improving by working hard. IN my freshman, there was an English teacher, Mrs. Copeland-Samaripa, a strict teacher I ever had seen and I failed this class once because of lack of my doing in homework and tests. I didn’t want to repeat the grade so I decided to work hard by studying notes for test and turned homework in on time.
Over the course of the semester, my main goal was to become a more precise writer and develop my identity as a writer. According too, the Portfolio Letter assignment sheet, becoming a better writer consists of precise planning, draft and revising. It also includes understanding a variety of academic genres by examining the basic characteristics that defines each type. In order too efficiently meet my goal of becoming a better writer, it was very important to have my work evaluated by others and myself as well. The use of rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, reading and writing all are the important aspects in this course.
When I think of myself as a writer, I think of a writing struggle. I struggle with getting things done by the deadline, there are times when I feel “on top of the world” this is when I write my best, and there are times when I can’t write at all, I just feel like dying. I went through a lot during Junior year, and it resulted in me being very depressed; which really affected my ability to write. I hate writing when my heart isn’t in it when this happens it leads me to procrastinate, waiting for a spark of motivation but, during Junior year I realized you just have to fake it occasionally and write with only your intelligent mind. My Junior year I decided to take Mr.Davies Dual Enrollment English class, a college level class.
My history as a writer has been a bit of a struggle of slow development. From a young age I had a hard time with spelling and this is still a trouble area for me, even with the help of autocorrect. As I grew in age and as a writer my problematic area became not including enough nitty gritty details. My bad experiences that I recall would always involve the start of writing because I struggle with beginning paragraphs. Also, I tend to use the ending paragraph to just repeat myself, so overall my first and last paragraphs are usually shit.
What is my experience with writing? Every since I was little I was taught the basic skills I would need to learn to read and write. From simple things as writing our ABCs,
I thought it was stupid having to read aloud, practicing on how I say certain words, having to start a sentence over until I didn’t stutter, re-reading the same page over and over until it didn’t me the longest time just to finish one page. But practicing every day, took a lot of patience for me and my mother, and it was all worth it, I don’t have trouble reading, it doesn’t take me long to read anymore, it easy to pronounce and spell words. Working out the issues I had with reading helped make it easier, and made me love to read ever since
Late May, 2016. I was 13 years old, about to leave on a two week long road trip, and had just discovered the magic of musicals. Before then, I had abhorred the very idea of a musical, why would people randomly burst into song and choreographed dance for no reason? Now, I can not write anything decent without a musical playing in the background. The purpose of this essay is to analyze my writing process and how my process can be strengthened, for three textual artifacts.
I practiced everyday at home to test my speed on how tidy and fast I could write. To this day, I do not know if my parents caught on, but I used them to practice my handwriting as well. “Mama! Can I write your food list? Tell me how to spell it!”
In middle school, essays were my worst nightmare but somehow I survived. Until high school when English teachers through in research papers with MLA format; considering I am still boggled on MLA format, you can guess how that went. I have managed many years of writing but unfortunately I am still waiting for that
Writing is something that has always come natural to me. I enjoy writing and for the most part, I do an acceptable job at it. Although English has been my best subject since elementary school, there are a few things I need to improve on, one being spelling. I have a decent vocabulary, but I am not very efficient when it comes to spelling. Yes, we have access to things such as spell check and autocorrect, but being able to spell words correctly on my own is something that is important because not everything I will do in life is going to be typed.
ENG-122 Reflective Essay My writing process has changed tremendously over the course of this class. I feel more accomplished, confident and I feel sometimes that my ideas and thoughts just come in to my mind out of nowhere and I start writing about anything now. I pay attention to my punctuation and grammar more as I have polished them more now, not only when I write but then others write as well. I am constantly looking for errors and I highly think this is helping me a lot in my career.
Skills such as proper grammar and MLA format still need some adjustment. Even though I have things to improve, I was still able to improve some areas of my writing skills regardless even if it was a small improvement. In the beginning, like
What does writing mean to me? Writing means getting people engaged in your piece. It means people wanting to keep reading what you wrote. The biggest thing about writing to me is expressing your thoughts and letting your mind go. Using good word choice and having a strong voice in the writing is something that makes it good.
