Starting from the time of choosing WLL major, I was highly interested in increasing the level of my writing and SHSS 230 struck me as being a very appropriate choice in this situation. Focused on the learning principles of clear writing, this course appears to be very useful for students who struggle with structuring their writing and its clearness. If you struggle with organizing your writing and interested in writing clearly, all of the lessons from SHSS 230 would be very useful for you as they were for me. By knowing the low level of my writing, I understood that I have a long way ahead to achieve a higher level in it. Now, even if I am still on the way to reach my goals, I clearly see some improvements in my writing.
The level of my writing was extremely low both in terms of its clearness and coherence &
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It helped me reorganize my papers to be more reader oriented, which is (surprisingly for me) most important to writers in their work. Surprisingly, as a result of my improvements in SHSS 230, along with general increasing in writing, my perception of good writing emerged from nowhere. The quality of my papers from Literary and other courses started to increase parallel to my study in SHSS 230, as well as I developed a habit to use my knowledge from this course to other courses too. Also, during reading articles and books by different authors, I started to identify techniques that they use in order to make their writing clear and conscious. This had made a beneficial impact on my writing too.
Last, but not least, SHSS 230 helped me in understanding vocabulary more deeply and developed a habit to analyze each new word by writing its synonyms and antonyms with examples (Thanks, Writerpedia!). I am planning to continue this useful habit along with the use of other techniques in the next term