Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned In My Writing

At the beginning of the year I was really nervous about taking your Composition 1 class. You see, writing papers was never one of my strong traits. Looking back on this semester, I can see just how much my writing has improved. I went from being a writer who stressed over every tiny detail of a paper into someone who feels more confident in her writing to actually start enjoying what I put in my papers. Even though I stressed over every detail in my writing I still lacked a lot of the knowledge I needed to not make as many errors. With the help of your class and by basing my papers over the five goals you set for us, by the end of the semester my papers had gotten a lot stronger. At the start of the semester I had some major weaknesses in my papers. My punctuation and grammar was awful, and for some reason I just couldn’t wrap my head around how to correctly write things. For my first paper (This I believe essay) to accomplish goal #1 (Demonstrating effective writing as a recursive process), I had to go back and revise my essay, by expanding on ideas and fixing my mechanic issues. My observational essay also fit this goal, because I had to go back and fix moments of persuasion rather than observation. For my third paper (Literary Analysis), I fit the first goal when I had to go back and fix a lot of the fragments that …show more content…
How? I went to a nursing home and observed what it was like to live in one. The research I got from the experience helped me have a better understanding of what it was like to be in a nursing home. That knowledge, made my paper more detailed and real. My Argumentative paper involved a lot of facts. I had to find those facts from reliable sources, which is how I demonstrated the use of research techniques. The last paper that I believe fits into the goal is the Career Research essay. I had to at least have ten credible source to incorporate into my research