Reflective Essay On Writing Skills

I am a senior in high school and am taking a year abroad next year. My parents would only agree to a year abroad if I took online college courses to make up for starting a year later. WRTG101 is the first online course I have ever taken. I chose to take a writing course because I realized that learning the fundamentals of writing is a critical component to my well rounded education. Having good writing skills will no doubt open many doors in my professional life as well. I don’t exactly know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know that I want to be able to write properly and grammatically correct. In high school, I have written many essays on novels, but nothing more elaborate than that. I wanted to be exposed to different formats of writing and different topics to express myself, and that is exactly what WRTG101 offered me. I was a little intimidated by the course because I have never used an online database to research information, never
I particularly liked the developing transitions assignment. When I wrote my paragraph and focused on adding transition words, it made concentrate on the importance of those words in writing. Another assignment I liked in the Discussion group was the Topic Sentence Exercise. It helped me stay on tract of what the topic was and not stray off of it. The most useful part of the Discussion group was getting to read what other classmates wrote and how their view was different from mine. Even though it was an online class, you got to feel more like you were with other people in a classroom. Finally, after the course I feel and write more confidently. I feel as if my grammar and research capability has grown and improved. Even though I don’t feel completely comfortable with APA formatting, WRTG101 gave me the groundwork to keep me going and improve. My first online course has been a success and I am motivated to advance and continue working on my writing