College Prep Writing Class Analysis

When I started this class, I believe I had strong writing skills, and now I believe these skills have strengthened, making me a more conscious writer. Before this class, I have not focused on aspects such as sentence length and specific words that I am using. Instead, I simply wrote and worked on proper grammar. My essay writing skills have definitely improved throughout this class simply due to the fact that I spend more time writing my essays. Now that I have mastered more skills, I can utilize them in every essay from here on out. While I know that I still have room to improve, I am pleased by my progress and I feel more confident about my writing. I have always enjoyed writing essays, but this class has helped me more fully understand the complexities of writing an essay. Previously, most essays I have written have been standard for English classes, and
College Prep Writing has been a useful class, and I am proud of what I have accomplished within it. One of the most important aspects I have developed in College Prep Writing is remembering to do the entire writing process, instead of simply just typing out an essay and turning it in. For the scholarship unit, I had to brainstorm topics and start my essay well. In previous classes, we have completed some aspects of prewriting, but it often was not necessary. Scholarships are often only a few hundred words, so it is necessary to prove your point in a small amount of space. One of the most useful essays we wrote in this class was the Rhetorical Analysis. The Rhetorical Analysis truly helped me focus on the types of paragraphs I write and how to connect them. Introductions and conclusions have always come naturally to me, but sometimes I struggle with what information to place within the body paragraphs. This class helped me understand that for a formal essay, typically a body paragraph will contain a transition