Personal Narrative: My First College
Writing my first college Paper
Writing my first paper for college was not easy. I was in English 050. It had been several years since I had been in high school. I was scared and I wanted to do a good job on my first paper. I wanted to show myself that I could do this whole college thing. I was trying to prove to myself that I did not wait too late to come back to school. When I turned in my rough draft to him, I remember telling him “I hope this is what you want”.
The next time we met in class my professor came to me and said ”this is an excellent paper, but this is a paper you can either re-write as a narrative or you may save this for our third paper that will be due later”. I decided that I was going to rewrite this paper and turn it in. I was completely unsure of what he was …show more content…
I saw red lines and circles and slashes. I was very disappointed. I really thought I knew what he wanted. Well I did do what he wanted I just can’t spell very well and I do not always use correct punctuation. Even with spell check on my computer I still made more mistakes than what I thought I had. There and their seemed to be my biggest mistakes. I also needed to learn how to quote people correctly. It was very hard in the being to know which one to use where. It finally sank in my hard head after a couple of times of turning in rough drafts.
I received my third rough draft back and it still had red lines and slashed all over it. I asked my professor “what is it that I am doing wrong”? He said “well you seem to be getting a little frustrated and not paying attention to the small things. Its ok you still have two more class days to turn in rough draft before the final draft is due. If you can correct these mistakes and get it turned back into me today then you can have it back next class period and I can recheck it then. This way you still have another chance to get it turn again before the finial is
Writing my first paper for college was not easy. I was in English 050. It had been several years since I had been in high school. I was scared and I wanted to do a good job on my first paper. I wanted to show myself that I could do this whole college thing. I was trying to prove to myself that I did not wait too late to come back to school. When I turned in my rough draft to him, I remember telling him “I hope this is what you want”.
The next time we met in class my professor came to me and said ”this is an excellent paper, but this is a paper you can either re-write as a narrative or you may save this for our third paper that will be due later”. I decided that I was going to rewrite this paper and turn it in. I was completely unsure of what he was …show more content…
I saw red lines and circles and slashes. I was very disappointed. I really thought I knew what he wanted. Well I did do what he wanted I just can’t spell very well and I do not always use correct punctuation. Even with spell check on my computer I still made more mistakes than what I thought I had. There and their seemed to be my biggest mistakes. I also needed to learn how to quote people correctly. It was very hard in the being to know which one to use where. It finally sank in my hard head after a couple of times of turning in rough drafts.
I received my third rough draft back and it still had red lines and slashed all over it. I asked my professor “what is it that I am doing wrong”? He said “well you seem to be getting a little frustrated and not paying attention to the small things. Its ok you still have two more class days to turn in rough draft before the final draft is due. If you can correct these mistakes and get it turned back into me today then you can have it back next class period and I can recheck it then. This way you still have another chance to get it turn again before the finial is