ipl-logo

Reflective Essay: What I Learned In My Writing Class

577 Words3 Pages

I always thought that writing could be simple but it gives the effort on your own ideas and making it as your own point of view of the topic. Throughout my high school year, I was assigned difficult topics but I would always try hard and do my best for them. Usually I would read my essay a couple of times and it would take me a while to paraphrase all of my essay. It would take me the rest of the day on finishing my assignment of the essay. I would always get the habit on redoing on what I write and it would be difficult for me on getting to the point. While thinking back to senior year, my English teacher would be always be strict on our format because we had to know it for college.

For example, every time when we had to do an essay, we had to make our writing as MLA format. This would help me so much because now I know what to provide when I write an essay that needs a MLA format or work cited page. When doing a rough draft, the teacher would announce to form in groups of three …show more content…

Usually they would say that it doesn't matter how many words, a least it's five paragraph. I think they should write more because you would explain more when they provide lots of evidence. I would write seven sentences each paragraph and it would improve myself as a student. I would work very hard when I get feedback on improving on my explaining of the text or topic. My attitude toward writing changes depending on what I write. For example, when the topic is about an interesting fact like the day when I had fun at the amusement park or when the day when your beliefs had been challenge. These topic would be very exciting to write because it would give me an idea on what to start on. The essay that I was really proud of was the last essay I wrote because I would rewrite on what I wrote and it took me a very long time to finish it. The teacher grade it and I got an A on it, I was very proud of

Show More
Related
772 Words | 4 Pages

Soon enough, the five-paragraph essay became the universal essay writing format, influencing many colleges and even high

Read More
927 Words | 4 Pages

Edleen Roberts Unteaching the Five paragraph Essay Into In the article “Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay”, Marie Foley infer that the five paragraph essay format is blameworthy of high school graduate unpreparedness for college coursework. Foley stated that “Many college freshman enter composition course alienated from writing”(P.2) Foley also claim that “teaching the five paragraph formula harms the student in some fundamental ways….i'll-preparing them for academic and real world writing”(P.3) This paper is going to analyse Marie Foley point of view on the five paragraph

Read More
414 Words | 2 Pages

I believe that real heroes are the everyday people we interact with on a daily basis. I know movies make us believe that heroes have to be superhuman, or have to be able to lift a car, or wear a cape. The real qualities of a hero are those qualities like bravery, kindness, strength, selflessness, love. Heroes are among us everyday. One everyday hero

Read More
508 Words | 3 Pages

reflecting on my progress thus far in this course, I have not only become cognizant of my writing skills and habits, but improvements I need to make to become a better writer. Although writing has never been one of my strong suits, I have learned valuable writing skills and strategies that are applicable to both the professional and academic field. Transitioning from the way I have been taught to write as a high school student has been the most challenging and influential change I have witnessed in my writing. To elaborate, in high school, we were taught the basis for writing any essay regardless of the audience or topic was the rigid five-paragraph essay structure.

Read More
1026 Words | 5 Pages

This is what truly makes me dislike writing. The excessive page requirement for writing is not necessary. For the most part long page assignments degrade the overall quality of the writing assignment. This is because people run out of content to write and just repeat things in order to fulfill the page requirement for the assignment. There shouldn’t be a length requirement for essays.

Read More
675 Words | 3 Pages

For example, I never wrote to a certain audience before, and now I can choose my audience as I please, and if I do not want that audience anymore, all I have to do is go back and change it. I have put many hours into writing this semester and I have learned that writing for a certain period of time works best for me. I used to struggle for hours writing papers that were 3-4 pages long, now I can write them in a couple hours. When I write for a long period of time, I start to lose my train of thought and it is hard for me to keep going.

Read More
1933 Words | 8 Pages

Those ways used before this class was my idea of writing a good essay, but after going through this English 101 class, it allowed me to cover all of the problems that I had handled and find solutions to these issues. In English 101, I was not only able to make my papers better, I was able to go beyond that and even make them more powerful than they were before. My writing improved from the use of peer review and author questions that has been implemented in this class. This type of system is very helpful in finding specific issues and things throughout my essay. Finding grammatical errors and suggesting better options for sentence structures really help in

Read More
376 Words | 2 Pages

Expository Writing,... I must say, I truly love this class. Though I may sound like I'm kissing up, I actually like this class. See, no one knows this about me, but I love writing. I've always loved writing stories about anything.

Read More
405 Words | 2 Pages

It is difficult for me to think of what I want to say and how I want to say it so it’s not a jumbled mess. I have so many ideas it’s hard to organize them so everything flows smoothly. It is also hard for me to write the required amount. A lot of times when I’m finished writing something, I have to go back through and add more to make it longer. Adding lots of detail to my writing is something that I can work on.

Read More
569 Words | 3 Pages

I wish I was able to write about something that I enjoy. Since I write a lot for my course/assignments I do have writing assignments that I am most proud of. My 9th grade final research

Read More
568 Words | 3 Pages

Academic Writing Throughout high school, a variety of courses were offered in order to fulfill the required English credit to graduate. I had always dreaded English courses because the work was so open-ended; every class a new opportunity for things to go well or horribly wrong. My junior year, my favorite teacher was offering a course to upperclassmen called Creative Writing. The tittle drew me in, creative meant that there were no wrong answers, right?

Read More
669 Words | 3 Pages

This semester has been an ongoing challenge for me but has been an enjoyable one and I have not been presented with any impossible tasks. I have never been much of a writer, and during the course of this semester, I 've struggled to meet length requirements on the assigned essays. However, I do understand that not everyone is an excellent writer or even has to enjoy writing to get a good grade in this 1A class. From the start, with the first essay, I pushed myself to do my best and looked to multiple outlets to polish my writing, such as the online tutor, the writing center, the internet and the writer 's handbook.

Read More
500 Words | 2 Pages

Writing essays and other types of posts has always been difficult for me. But, throughout this composition class, I have learned many interesting and new things about the different types of writing styles. When starting this class, I considered myself to be an average writer with run-of-the-mill vocabulary, ordinary sentence structure and typical finished products. This class has helped me greatly improve my writing skills in a variety of ways. I have learned multiple things by taking this class, such as new ways to approach writing and that there is much that I still need to learn about composition.

Read More
781 Words | 4 Pages

Writing has always been an issue but yet interesting subject of mine. As hard as I try and write essays, and papers I just can’t get the hang of writing. But after taking this class, I did learn different writing technique and improved my writing proficiency, material body of formatting, and how to uncovering and properly use sources. Through class exams, essays, and a research paper, I was able to learn new writing skills. Although I have learned a variety of things, my writing still needs improvement.

Read More
635 Words | 3 Pages

We all make mistakes, and most of the time we learn from them. From my Preliminary Writing Assignment to my Paper One, I have made numerous improvements in my writing but also many mistakes. Coming into College Writing One, I did not have papers to write to improve my skills in my upcoming years in college. Within the two papers I have written, I have expanded my word selection for more detailed paper, reduced fragments, and reorganized my thesis method for a better outcome. I came into this class thinking it was going to be just like high school.

Read More

More about Reflective Essay: What I Learned In My Writing Class

Related Topics

Open Document