Reflective Essay On My Writing Skills

In the past I had a rough start with my writing skills. The physical writing was easy, but other components were quite hard. Currently, I am writing a lot better; I write at a college level and hopefully will pass English 101 with a 4.0 grade. In the future, I will be an excellent writer, I have the drive to prefect whatever I set my mind to, and you can see that from my progress this quarter. At the beginning of this quarter, I was just barely writing at a college level, not because I couldn’t, but because lacked motivation to fix and revise my work. I hated writing, I didn’t see the point of putting effort into a three page paper. The first prompt I received was about reinstating the draft. It was written in class, therefore, I did not have any time to research the topic, but that was not a problem. I had been in ROTC for 5 years, and writing about the draft came easy to me. By the end of the period I was so astonished by the amount of work I had done. I had enjoyed the topic I was writing about, therefore, I was able to write a lot, in a small amount of time. When I was in high school, I did not have the luxury of picking the topic I would write about. This facilitated the lack of motivation I had to write, but now, I see that writing is wonderful, and that grammar is important.

Personally, I enjoy persuasive writing. I learned over 12 different ways to write this quarter. I assumed that a narrative was just a narrative, but there are actually three kinds! I learned that a literacy narrative has to do with your own experiences in writing. The essay in this portfolio about Arby’s, is a literacy narrative. A reflection narrative is made up of memoirs and a graphic narrative is a visual story. It is surprising to think, that when I read a narrative, I know what kind it is within 30 seconds of reading it. English 101 made it possible for me to make this distinction between