Reflective Essay: Improving My Writing Skills

Writing for some may seem difficult, but for me it is like second nature. I have always been interested in writing for as long as I can remember. As I grew older my writing style advanced as well. Since I have been in college, I have learned various techniques that have helped me improve my writing skills. The older you get and the wiser you become, the better your writing will be.

I began writing at the very young age of eleven. The first thing I remember writing was a heartfelt song called finished. Even though I was too young to fully understand relationships, I wrote that song as if I had experienced it myself. After I wrote my first song I began to write poetry to express my feelings. Once my mom found out about my writings, I started writing poems for different programs at our church. Throughout the years, I began to enter a variety of poetry contests. In my junior year of high school I wrote a poem about bullying and won first place. Writing is a getaway for me, it always has been and it always will be.

My writing throughout high school was much different than my writing today. My writing today has improved tremendously. At the beginning of this semester, my writing was very standard and simple. I used to write a paragraph as the traditional three to five sentences. My sentence structures
I have learned about the different types of essays, such as: the remembering essay, the compare and contrast essay, the cause and effect essay, and the reflective essay. I have also learned different techniques to set up an essay. An outline is one of the most important and useful things I have learned this semester. It helps me organize my essays and it also makes it ten times easier to write the essays. Another important thing I have learned from this class is how to use MLA format. These notes are the things that have helped enhance my knowledge about