College Writing Reflection

College writing has helped me to learn more about myself, and the kind of writer that I want to be. Going from writing five paragraph essays, to more of a proper paper was a transition at first; But, after relearning how to write it, I found out that is was simple. I found that college writing is a lot more in depth and in detail than high school writing. Before being in a college class I never enjoyed writing essays about boring subjects, but I have grown to like writing more. This class taught me some new ideas, helped to improve my writing, and revealed some other types of writing used in colleges nationwide. As I was writing, I improved on the structure of the papers and how it should be organized. In addition, I took my papers more seriously because I have a college credit on the line that I want to receive. Instead of extra fluff in an essay, I learned to get the point across as best as you can with the least amount of extra words. Before
I felt that in my college application essay I needed to be as honest as possible because this was for my future education and I also wanted to impress the school with a good paper. Another paper that was difficult to write was the rhetorical analysis. It was challenging having to write a paper just based off an ad with not a lot of text. In order to write the paper you had to take apart the ad and figure out what the real meaning of it was. I had to think about the message that the organization wanted to get across. The easiest essay that I thought to write was the research paper. I had all of my information researched ahead of time and then I just had to put it all together. Learning to write these papers will help me in college and in the workforce because I will know how to write a strong paper. Overall, this class helped me to develop as a better writer and also taught me some great