Personal Narrative: My Skills As A Writer

Decent Essays
Over the past ten weeks, I have learned a lot of new techniques that I felt will benefit my skills as a writer. I learned many things that I did not know would help me strengthen my essays. Through peer review, comments made by my teacher and all throughout my research process, I was able to learn from my mistakes and fix my weaknesses. In the following reflection, I will explain how I improved as a writer through the entire process of writing my essays. From picking my topic to creating the final draft, I will not show what I did this quarter, but what I learned from each process that made me a better

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    English W131 Reflection

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages

    During this semester of English W131, I have experienced both accomplishments and setbacks while learning how to improve my writing skills. Throughout the course, I have learned that writing is not only about how much information is in the paper, but also about how well the writer’s thoughts are expressed throughout the text. Practicing many different styles of writing as I did in the class has helped me tremendously with my delivery in my writing. I believe that this course was one to prepare us for future writing courses with professors we will encounter who will give us feedback that may puzzle us because it will require more work and more thinking. Although I have had difficulty in the class, I do believe that I have learned from my mistakes and that I am finishing the course with stronger writing skills that will help me though the rest of my college career and life.…

    • 1178 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The first time, I enrolled in this class, I felt excited knowing this class would help on my grammar, so I can become a better writer. My first thought that cross my mind was this was going to be easy and it was. My last experienced with writing and English was okay because I mainly get a B or a C, but rarely I would get an A. I always been having trouble with grammars. My high school English teachers taught us about grammars and how to become a better writer. It was similar to what you had taught us in class because we always learned about grammar out of a book and we got tested after we been practice.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My writing experience: I didn’t start to read until I was in first grade. Every week we would go to library to check-out two books and take a test on the books we read on a computer. Every day in English we read a short story to ourselves then we would play games dealing with the story to make it fun. To be honest I never really did a lot of writing in Elementary , Middle, or High school so I can’t pinpoint when I started writing. In essay writing I learned its always good to express yourself with your own opinion.…

    • 608 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I have learned about my writing process that I like to be creative when I write. I also like my essays to be organize before I write, so I know exactly what to write about. I believe I am strongest at freestyle writing. I like to jump in and just start writing. Even if I don’t always know what to write, I can usually come up with something.…

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As for any writer knowing your strengths is very important. Your strengths can really help you stick out of the crowd and have the reader wanting more. Being aware of your flaws can improve the quality of your paper. One way to identify your strengths is by keeping a journal and writing frequently. Some of my strengths as a writer is I can visualize and give good details.…

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When I write I like to clarify myself as an ok writer. My weakness in writing is that I lose sense of what I am writhing and I make a story that is off task with some spelling errors, and the story I am supposed to write is a whole new story. My strengths in writing is that I gather enough information before I start my essay, I also have a good starting paragraph and read and fix mistakes I find.…

    • 81 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I feel that I have improved in many skills throughout this course but also have many skills that I have found that I need to improve more. The skills that I have developed throughout the units of the course are my reading and writing. The skills that I still need improving still are my communication skills and my viewing skills. Firstly I have improved my reading skills.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My strong points as a writer is me being emtional and being descriptive on my writing and I try my best to having good information on what I write when I start telling a story or saying my personal experience about anything that’s connecting to anything that I will write about. The emotional part of my writing I had strong points were my reader would get very touched on anything and I think being emotional would be my strongest point from writing an essay and the second would be being descriptive. Depending on what my assignment would be about my strongest points would get me too much in details but I try to be brief about what I’m talking about.…

    • 200 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In English I have become a much better writer. I have become a better writer because of practice through assignments and homework. Some of the things that have helped me become a better writer are NoRedInk practices and writing assignments such as the cause and effect essay and even peer editing helps not only others but helps by you correcting your things. I think my biggest accomplishment in English 6 is improving my essay writing skills by a lot because I think it truly demonstrated my overall growth through sixth grade. I think writing the Cause and Effect essay really helped my write this…

    • 104 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. What are your strengths as a writer? My strengths as a writer include my innovative side. When I obtain opinions from individuals about my work they are quick to mention that I am very creative.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Improving My Writing This semester, I was genuinely surprised by how much I actually learned and also how much I developed the writing skills I already had. I did not realize how much I would be researching, editing, and peer reviewing, and proofreading. I received vital help from the writing center. In the past, I have written essays the night before they were due; however, I ended up spending countless hours attempting to communicate my thoughts in a logical way.…

    • 1350 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As the time came nearer to its end I took the time to read over and make necessary adjustments and if there were any loose ends to conclude the essay by calling back to them. The most helpful lessons which enhanced my understanding and appreciation for writing were the weekly writes we would do which could be about any topic that…

    • 409 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    How do I write? This seems like an easy question to answer, simple and easily answered by just using a couple of sentences, but now having to write a paper taking specifically about how I write it’s much more complicated than what I would have thought before. There are so many ways of how people write, different thinking, different ways of using words to describe something, or techniques used to get a point across. This all depends on every person individually, every person has his or her own writing style. In my opinion the way a person writes, the style, language and the use of words tell a lot about the author.…

    • 469 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If writing was a meadow of delicate wild flowers on a shinnying spring day than spelling would be the prickly weed hiding low amongst the flora to sting the unwary. At age ten I was an enthusiastic reader. I’d read anything from science fiction and fantasy to nonfiction nature journals. Much of that enthusiasm came from my mother’s love of literature and her joy at having daughter who wanted to be as bookish as she was. Little did I know at the time that despite mom’s pride in my bookworm tendencies in her aspect as a home school mom she was very concerned with the problem of my bramble patch handwriting and untamed spelling.…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I began my college journey in the spring of 2017 at MSJC. My first semester I was enrolled in English-098 with Mr. Sisk and in the fall of 2017 I was enrolled in English-101 with Mrs. Miller. Before I enrolled, I had this urge to major in literature as I felt like my writing skills were strong. Ever since taking both classes I do feel like my writing skills have only gotten stronger. When it comes to my reading and thinking skills, I get frustrated because I tend to lose interest in certain subjects.…

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays