Reflective Essay: My Experience As A Writer
Throughout my writing experience I have always struggled with my body paragraphs. I tend to always have a strong introduction but once I began to go into my first body paragraph I lose my train of thought. One of my main issues is that I get to wordy. Which then leaves me with fragments. Lastly, which I’m sure most people have an issue with is basic grammar errors such as, spelling and placing commas. I feel that my writing has had a small progression. Through this class I have learned more writing techniques that have helped me as a writer. One skill that I really liked and plan to use again is making a list. In the list having page numbers and paragraph numbers where I have already highlighted in the book the quotes that I will be using in my essay. It makes things faster and easier to find rather than being stuck looking for a
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I now struggle less coming up with my body paragraphs because I have a list of ideas of what each paragraph will be about. As with spelling and fragments I still make mistakes. I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t have grammar errors. However, I try to minimize it as much as possible, by going over my paper more than once and by having someone other than myself read it and revise it because chances are they can catch an error that you might have missed or didn’t see. Furthermore, my understanding of 9/11 has changed drastically throughout this semester. Before I did not know detailed information that I now know today. All I knew before was the basic understanding of what it was and when it occurred, I had never went this in depth on learning everything that occurred. For instance, I got to read books where they explained who was behind the 9/11 attack and information about the leader of the organization. In addition, I also learned which towered collapsed first and the way the buildings were laid out through the
I now struggle less coming up with my body paragraphs because I have a list of ideas of what each paragraph will be about. As with spelling and fragments I still make mistakes. I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t have grammar errors. However, I try to minimize it as much as possible, by going over my paper more than once and by having someone other than myself read it and revise it because chances are they can catch an error that you might have missed or didn’t see. Furthermore, my understanding of 9/11 has changed drastically throughout this semester. Before I did not know detailed information that I now know today. All I knew before was the basic understanding of what it was and when it occurred, I had never went this in depth on learning everything that occurred. For instance, I got to read books where they explained who was behind the 9/11 attack and information about the leader of the organization. In addition, I also learned which towered collapsed first and the way the buildings were laid out through the