FINAL Writing Improvement 
Keith Westler
Professor Allen
English 100
25 April 2014
I’m a Writer
When I first made the decision to go back to school I had two overwhelming fears. The first was my fear of public speaking, the other, and most prominent one, was the fact that I would have to write essays, research papers, and the like. I didn’t even accomplish this successfully over twenty years ago in high school, let alone at a college level! I made the decision that neither writing, nor any other obstacle, was going to stand in my way of accomplishing my goal of a college education. The only way for me to accomplish writing essays successfully was to just dive in and do it. My mind was put to ease during the first week of class when Professor Allen said “Anyone can become a good writer if you just practice, and immerse yourself in the reading of good essays.” In the beginning of the course my confidence level grew by leaps and bounds. While writing my first essay the words just seemed to flow from the keyboard. I finished this first essay in no time flat. As I sat back and reread my essay I thought “This is perfect, I will probably be told to just move on to English 101.” On the day the essay was due I held my head high as I turned in my work of art. The following class, when the papers were returned to us, my swollen head was quickly deflated. The realization that I am not ready for English 101 and I was going to study rules about things like sentence structure, what using a passive voice construction in my sentences even meant, find out what sentence fragments are and how to work them into a nearby sentence. My original fears returned and were peering directly back at me from the essay grading sheet. I really didn’t know very much about any of this and was going to have to put in some work to get my writings up to a college level. The fears that had returned to me was just the motivation I needed to do the practicing and research that would improve my writing skills. I went to
Professor Allen
English 100
25 April 2014
I’m a Writer
When I first made the decision to go back to school I had two overwhelming fears. The first was my fear of public speaking, the other, and most prominent one, was the fact that I would have to write essays, research papers, and the like. I didn’t even accomplish this successfully over twenty years ago in high school, let alone at a college level! I made the decision that neither writing, nor any other obstacle, was going to stand in my way of accomplishing my goal of a college education. The only way for me to accomplish writing essays successfully was to just dive in and do it. My mind was put to ease during the first week of class when Professor Allen said “Anyone can become a good writer if you just practice, and immerse yourself in the reading of good essays.” In the beginning of the course my confidence level grew by leaps and bounds. While writing my first essay the words just seemed to flow from the keyboard. I finished this first essay in no time flat. As I sat back and reread my essay I thought “This is perfect, I will probably be told to just move on to English 101.” On the day the essay was due I held my head high as I turned in my work of art. The following class, when the papers were returned to us, my swollen head was quickly deflated. The realization that I am not ready for English 101 and I was going to study rules about things like sentence structure, what using a passive voice construction in my sentences even meant, find out what sentence fragments are and how to work them into a nearby sentence. My original fears returned and were peering directly back at me from the essay grading sheet. I really didn’t know very much about any of this and was going to have to put in some work to get my writings up to a college level. The fears that had returned to me was just the motivation I needed to do the practicing and research that would improve my writing skills. I went to