Personal Narrative: Growth In Communication

Growth in communication I sat in my sophomore english class, as time ticked away on the clock behind me. I’d written for the first 30 minutes of our in class essay, and, looking down in despair, realized that my paper was far from cohesive. Although my paper had several interesting ideas and analyzations about the book, I hadn't exactly answered the prompt. As the student next to me pushed back her seat to turn in her paper, I knew there was no way to turn mine around and get it to the place it needed to be. The ideas swirling around my head told me to just keep writing, that the more I would have on paper, the easier my teacher would grade, but of course I knew that wasn’t the case. As the bell rang to go onto forth period, I stood up and
One particular area where my communication skills have grown is in my writing. As I mentioned before, my in-class essays were so ill-informed, because I would only spend around five to ten minutes planning before hand. Essentially, I was being lazy, and didn’t want to spend the time putting my ideas down on paper when they seemed so planned out in my head. Because of this, my papers would be more like free-writing–unorganized and ill-informed. Particularly with our first semester finals this year, I had a really difficult time focusing my thoughts. The prompt, “Why did Sethe Kill Beloved?”, was extremely hard for me to wrap my mind around. I had so many ideas whirling around my head, all of which I wanted to use. I ended up sketching these ideas out three different times, in order to create the best combination of analyzations that would fully support my paper. I started with the belief that Sethe wanted to save her child from loosing her fundamental human rights. While this was interesting, it also seemed to cover the whole first semester of our class, so I knew I had to rein it in in order to have a concentrated paper. Finally, I decided to commit to the idea that