My Reflection As A Writer

Writer’s Reflection Where do I stand as a writer? This was a question I constantly asked myself and pondered about whether it was writing for a hobby or for a class assignment. Through the years of writing on the side, and creating stories from the fiction of my imagination, to sitting in English classes with constant interest to improve my writing, I found the passion and craving to write something, growing more vibrantly inside me, and feel as though it constantly changes my viewpoint and have emerged to the writer I’ve always wanted to be and hoped for. The constant obstacles and challenges that I faced during the more recent years of writing, I feel as though, have shaped me towards being a better writer, with still more room to grow
With revision, I was able to see clearly how I could improve in my writing as a student, and a personal individual. Connecting with the “Critical Reading” and “Critical Thinking” section of Susan Anker’s book, Real Essays Interactive, it guided me in different paths on how to approach my paper when it came to responding to various authors. For example, by paying close attention to the author’s words they wanted to convey to their audience, I found myself thinking about approaching my papers in different perspectives from what I used to write in. Before, I was solely taught to write in someone else’s view, not my own as it could’ve been too biased when analyzing an author’s work. Yet, reading deeper into the “Critical Reading” section, states, “asking yourself questions about the author’s purpose… you should consider whether you agree or disagree with the points being made.” Reading this along, felt like a reassurance as it was okay to place personal input and not solely writing in different viewpoints other than my own. Furthermore, reading other student’s personal thoughts being included into their work acted as a support when it came to acknowledging that it was alright to put in personal thoughts, and again, improved my writing a lot. It gave a sensation of being in the same place of other fellow classmates, and in some sense of supporting each other as we responded to each other’s