Reflection About My Writing

After completing the Write Experience assignment I was both disappointed and pleased. I was disappointed with my grade. I thought that I was a much better writer than the program was giving me credit for. I was frustrated as I kept submitting my assignment because the final submission was lower than my second submission. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong. I was also very pleased because I was learning a lot about my writing errors, and I was learning new tips and tricks about the focus, content, organization, language, and mechanics used to write my paper. The first type of error that I noticed in my writing, with the help of Cengage, was the sentence variety error. I noticed that I started nearly every sentence with the word “I,” and all of my sentences were the exact same length. In my writing, I was using simple sentences to form my entire paper. This error made my paper extremely boring to read. I fixed my paper by adding a variety of different sentence types and avoiding the word “I” as much as possible. I added a few compound sentences and complex sentences to keep my readers attention. In the first submission of my assignment, I used sentences like: “I am very devoted to the company because…. I am very passionate about the company.” But in the second submission, I merged those …show more content…
I struggle a lot with understanding when to use, and when not to use commas. I found that I had many errors regarding them, but the most frequent one was comma splices. I tried to link independent clauses together with a comma and without a coordinating conjunction. The grammar lesson in class helped me recognize that I was having this issue. I quickly learned how to correct it. I changed sentences from “I am a very driven worker, I also don’t back down from completion.” To “I am a very hard worker who doesn’t back down from completion.” Or “ I am a very hard worker, and I don’t back down from the