Reflective Essay On My Writing Style
Reflective Essay
As I take the time to reflect, it never ceases to amaze me how I’ve changed within the course of this year. Especially when I consider my writing style and how that has changed. From high school to completing my first year of college, a lot has happened as far as my writing style goes and those changes will help me to be a more professional writer in the future.
My writing style in high school was formal and followed a strict template for writing research papers and all other written assignments. Many of my teachers then left no wiggle room for creative detail nor allowed us to use “I” in any of our papers. They gave my peers and I such highly specific prompts that each of our body paragraphs was almost identical. As a result to the specific prompts, I would typically score 87-95 percent …show more content…
I have found it easy and systematic to write good quality papers in high school and some of my classes at Alabama University because professors gave clear prompts and I knew what to expect as far as grading goes. My proudest moment so far came from a ten page research paper I did in my philosophy class and that was mostly due to the fact that put a lot of time into constructing it. Writing and Rhetoric was a challenge for me. The course caused me to rethink of how I write my research papers. I have changed from writing formally and drowning my papers in quotes to becoming more informal and using my own voice more than quotes. Grant it, there are still many improvements to be made in the way that I write. The lessons that I gained from this course and becoming more aware of my weaknesses in writing, will help me to write and communicate more professionally in the psychology field, which is what I plan to go into. Writing and Rhetoric has truly improved my perspective in respects to how I write and I will feel more confident as I write in the
As I take the time to reflect, it never ceases to amaze me how I’ve changed within the course of this year. Especially when I consider my writing style and how that has changed. From high school to completing my first year of college, a lot has happened as far as my writing style goes and those changes will help me to be a more professional writer in the future.
My writing style in high school was formal and followed a strict template for writing research papers and all other written assignments. Many of my teachers then left no wiggle room for creative detail nor allowed us to use “I” in any of our papers. They gave my peers and I such highly specific prompts that each of our body paragraphs was almost identical. As a result to the specific prompts, I would typically score 87-95 percent …show more content…
I have found it easy and systematic to write good quality papers in high school and some of my classes at Alabama University because professors gave clear prompts and I knew what to expect as far as grading goes. My proudest moment so far came from a ten page research paper I did in my philosophy class and that was mostly due to the fact that put a lot of time into constructing it. Writing and Rhetoric was a challenge for me. The course caused me to rethink of how I write my research papers. I have changed from writing formally and drowning my papers in quotes to becoming more informal and using my own voice more than quotes. Grant it, there are still many improvements to be made in the way that I write. The lessons that I gained from this course and becoming more aware of my weaknesses in writing, will help me to write and communicate more professionally in the psychology field, which is what I plan to go into. Writing and Rhetoric has truly improved my perspective in respects to how I write and I will feel more confident as I write in the