Preview

Reflection About Writing

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
699 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Reflection About Writing
Still Mediocre Writing, but Improving The first paper was finally written, and I did better than I thought I would have. The process of writing is something I am still trying to grasp. With having to take a writing class last semester. It made me better prepared for Composition 1. Then after receiving my first paper back, I know it actually did prepare me. I would have been lost without that class, and struggling to get ideas out of my head and onto paper. Know I realize what my strengths are and what I learned from my first writing class. Also, learning what I still struggle with, and eventually by the time this semester is over I will conquer the process of writing. Then writing will become second nature to me. Unfortunately I still have a weakness that I need to fix. The first is to stop making open space to seem like I write more. I believe it is done subconsciously, and it makes my paper look longer. However, it also shows huge gaps that makes my paper look unfinished. So it hurts me more than it helps me. One …show more content…
When I do that, I know that going to school actually did some improvement on who I am. Probably the easiest way is going to the CRC lab and having others peer edit my papers. I actually had to do this in my first writing class for a grade. I really did not want to go, because I am kind of a nervous person going into new things. After I finally built up the courage to go, I was relieved and glad I did. They are very helpful and quite knowledgeable. Mrs. Varrasso is also a fantastic way to get help, even on papers from other classes. I have seen her help many students and she is proud to help. She actually makes writing enjoyable, and we all know how hard that can be. To see someone so enthused makes it so much easier to approach and help with errors and weakness that I have. I know that she will easily help me and make me become a better writer, which is my goal for the end of this

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    After going to the Ashford Writing Center, I have decided that the writing skill that I would like to improve, first, is to have a better grasp of proper APA formatting. I believe that I am fairly proficient with explaining and writing my ideas. Since beginning classes at Ashford University, particularly EDU 304, I admit that my understanding of APA formatting needs clarified.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In the past a thousand weeks, I feel like I have accomplished a great deal. As the quarter ends, I find myself reflecting not only how I have survived my fifth quarter but also what I have learned. The most important thing I have learned so far is how to become a better writer. I did not think it could really happen to me. I did not think I could handle all the work. I did not think I could actually become a better writer. Somehow, after all the hours of writing, and putting effort into my papers that I wrote in this quarter, I became a better writer. I did this because I concentrated on two very important areas. With help from an awesome teacher and my partner, I have become a better writer by improving my skills in the areas of procrastination and content.…

    • 545 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    I have learned that revising your writing makes it way better than before. You find your mistakes and realize you can replace words such as “bring to” to a different high vocabulary word such as “cease”. I know now that there is no way to make your paper perfect. There will always be a word, words, or sentence you could change.In addition, I’ve gained a better understanding on passive and active sentences. Once I was done writing my paper, and began to reread it I found some passive sentences. All I did was revise the sentence which helped my writing flow better. Initially, I read the first paper I wrote for the Quarter 1 Writing Assessment and I noticed that I didn’t follow the directions completely. As I read on, there were many simple sentences and not many transitional words.…

    • 324 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout my writing experience I have always struggled with my body paragraphs. I tend to always have a strong introduction but once I began to go into my first body paragraph I lose my train of thought. One of my main issues is that I get to wordy. Which then leaves me with fragments. Lastly, which I’m sure most people have an issue with is basic grammar errors such as, spelling and placing commas. I feel that my writing has had a small progression. Through this class I have learned more writing techniques that have helped me as a writer.…

    • 675 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I think that now I write papers more structured and organized rather than throwing all of my ideas down on the paper. In the future, I think that I will seek feedback by asking a friend to proof read my work or by going to the ask center for help after I have read it aloud several times. If I need more feedback I could talk to my professor and see what his expectations are and what I can improve on. Overall, the experience that I had with all of my proof reading and feedback resources was positive. I think that I have learned more about my habits, which have helped me improve my writing skills in…

    • 507 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Over the course of this year in English, I think my writing process has excelled the most along with my overall writing. In the past, I have used similar techniques to develop a final essay, but, this year, I have begin to rely more heavily on planning out and slowly chipping away at my essays and papers. I believe also that because of this planning the strength of my writing as a whole has grown. Personally, I do not think that I grew in my vocabulary usage. Overall this year, I grew as a writer in ways that I would not have predicted.…

    • 551 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As a student coming fresh out of high school I am still used to writing as I have been taught since I was in middle school. We were taught to outline, make a first draft, have someone read that draft, revise and then hand in the final copy. This is a long and boring process that has not changed and is always so repetitive. We always had to write five paragraph papers about things that would never be relevant to my future. In this class I hope to change my approach and how I feel about writing.…

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    What a journey my writing has experience over the past seven weeks has been. I have grown as writer more in this class than I have previously. Writing has always been a challenge for me. Many people have heard of someone who just can’t get math, well that is me with writing. Back in high school there many times that an assignment did not get turned, not because I had not worked on it, but I could never get the ideas in my head to make sense when I wrote them on paper. I would get so frustrated that many ended up in the trash crumpled. For every assignment we have worked on I still get frustrated. What takes many, minutes to write and sound eloquent take me, hours to sound short and abrupt. But with each lesson we have gone through my…

    • 409 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Reflective writing

    • 1307 Words
    • 3 Pages

    During the drug round I tried not to be too disturbed but did answered call bells during the drug round. For each and every patient I checked date and time on maar sheet and double checked it was the…

    • 1307 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Writing is definitely a process. How I wrote when I was a child and how I write today is extremely different. My relationship with reading has also changed as I grow older.…

    • 679 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Writing is always difficult and takes a long time, this is my first impression about any writing class. Not only because of its techniques, but also the language was a big obstacle. I don’t see myself as a good writer and writing for me is just a required task I have to get it done. I moved to the United States three years ago. I have taken English as a first foreign language in my Egyptian school beside Arabic --my native language--. When I moved here and started school, I placed in an ESL class for a quarter and then moved to regular English classes after that. When I start the writing courses here at UCI, I wasn’t happy about my placement. After, I was taking a regular English classes in high school, I placed in AC English 20C/D. I wished that I had gotten placed in a more advanced writing course. But after finishing these academic courses, I can admit that my enrollment was not a waste and it was the right choice. During these courses, I have improved in many different areas. Doing the essay in three drafts required me to go over and reconsider my essay…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout the years of my schooling experience I’ve adapted a love for writing and have came to love writing essays. As students moan and groan I silently rejoice because I get a chance to express myself through writing. To me, writing is like an art people use to express things the can’t say face to face. Out of the essays I have written so far this year I definitely have my favorite little pieces. Every writer has that little ‘I really love this part’ in any of their pieces. But, altogether my favorite thing about my writing would be my creativeness while writing. In my personal narrative, titled The Memories That Make Me, the introduction states “Over the months and years, we’ve grown like a melody to its lyrics, inseparable. And now the memories stick like glue… I was almost too quick to judge.” Personally, the metaphor incorporated into the introduction sets off the paper. Towards the beginning of the year we studied origin stories. How Murder Came To Be was one of the most challenging but the…

    • 586 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    My Writing Skills

    • 1082 Words
    • 5 Pages

    As said before one thing that comes along with writing is revision. One type of revision that I was never a big fan of was peer revision. I always use to be nervous when I would have to have my paper revised by another person because my writing was so poor. After doing it many times during this class…

    • 1082 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    My Writing Reflection

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages

    When walking into my first period class as high schooler, I pictured myself as a well-rounded writer. My impression suddenly changed after a few weeks in Ms. Giroux’s class. As I received my first ECQ grade with a blood-inked C written in the corner, I realized I was going to have to put a lot more effort into my writing. I began to spend more time and put tedious details in my writing while doing deep revisions after my paper was complete. Towards the beginning of the year, my writing lacked creativity and organization skills.…

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    My biggest problem is my attitude towards writing. I simply do not enjoy writing, it is an endless mental torture. For instance, I over analyze everything, hoping to write something…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays