My Writing: My Experience As A Writer

Ever since I was young, writing has never been my strong point. I never divulged into the writing process as much as I have completed for this particular course called writing 101. The reason being, English was never my first spoken or written language. I am comfortable with speaking the English language however writing correctly and adhering to the writing process has always been a challenge for me. For once, I never had a clear idea of structuring an essay to reach a valid point. Without structural organization, all the essays I have written so far lacked the impact that good, strong essays usually show. However within this course period, I have obtained many skills that divulges into writing a good, strong essay or any writing pieces for that matter. I began this course with very basic writing skills; now I have acquired intermediate learning skills through using pre-writing, good grammar knowledge and transition words.
Prewriting is a rough draft for writers to jot down a working thesis statement along with some topic sentences to support the overall idea of a paper. I would usually brainstorm for a thesis statement and start writing right away. As a result, I would always fumble around for topic sentence ideas until the due date was slowly dawning on me. Looking at my preparation of the 1st personal narrative essay compared to the third research-supported caused essay, I was much more prepared and had a clearer idea on my third essay. I used the prewriting skills I had learned earlier in the course, which helped me a lot. To gain a clear understanding of the essay idea, I wrote down the thesis and the topic sentences along with qualified sources. As a result, I have bettered my preparation skills when writing an essay or an organized