My Experience As A Writer

Success and failure are two things every writer has experienced in their lifetime. While being a student in multiple English courses, I have faced more failures than I have successes. As a young writer, I have been met with difficulties, such as grammar and forming outlines. While these difficulties have discouraged me in my writing before, I have discovered a strength of mine, which is knowing how to structure an essay. Through writing more essays for this course, I hope to no longer deem grammar and formulating outlines as weaknesses, and I strive to find more strengths and become a skilled writer. Grammar is a difficulty I did not overcome in my previous English course. I have always had trouble with grammar. Whenever I took the English section of the ACT practice tests, I would review what I missed, and I would miss plenty of the grammar questions. I would not, and still do not, know when to use the correct verb tense or where to correctly place a comma. Commas are a specific part of grammar I have the most difficulty with. To this day, I find myself placing commas where they are not necessary, creating comma splices. I tend to write how I think, so whenever I pause in my mind, I place a comma where I paused. In my current English …show more content…
Finding out that outlines were required for every one of my papers, has been a low point for me. My previous and current English teachers have always told us to create an outline prior to writing our papers, but had they not told us this, I would not have done it. I preferred to jump into the paper and edit as I progressed through, so I had tend to skip over the outline process. Seeing as my teachers demanded an outline previous to me writing my essay has been a reality check. I have grown to accept this process, and the more I have created outlines, the better I have become at forming an outline prior to beginning my