Writing Course Reflection

During this course I have actually learned how there are a lot of different types of papers. When I first started writing I was told you have, persuasive, expository, and narrative essays, but in reality there are so many other types of way to organize and attack a paper. When entering ENC 1101, I honestly hoped to receive information on different ways to write a paper and the many different types of way a paper can be organized. I was also wishing to be taught how to research information for a paper and how to cite that information properly. Most of all, I wanted to see if my writing skills would continue to grow in different areas. When starting a new paper the slides that explained the type of paper we were going to start writing as a class
I feel as though I have so much I want to say, but making sure I say it correctly without extraneous words and clumsy phrasing is an area that needs work. In addition, I never realized how there is so much to research, but making sure it is not biased or it is a scholarly work is quite difficult at times. Pushing all the required details for an essay is a thing I tend to worry about last minute, just to make sure it is in the essay. This leads me to lose focus in some areas of the paper, because instead of planning correctly I just force them in the essays, which makes it lose the significance of the organization of the paper. Also, I have never spent long periods of time making sure my papers are close to perfect, and doing that would most likely would increase my scores even further. The reason I wait last minute is because writing under pressure tends to get the juices and ideas running through my head and my fingers wont stop. Whenever I try to start a paper early I usually end up starring at the paper or computer screen for hours and nothing gets completed. I do aim to try and get all my information to put it in an outline, which would probably make my life a lot