Reflective Essay: Myself As A Writer

The argumentative essay was widely regarded as the hardest essay we are going to have to type this year. The hardest part, in my opinion, was to heavily implement our voice so that we did not turn this into a research paper. The essay was more I had always thought of myself as a good writer, so I thought college writing would not be too hard. This was not the thought when I got my first rough draft back. I then knew college writing was going to be harder than I expected. This was my first time realizing that I was going to have to step out of my comfort zone as a writer, and step up my game. Good writing requires writers to reflect, and the challenge of this essay made me look at my writing and dive deeper into myself to pull out what necessary to get an A, which ultimately led me to growing as a writer.

The hardest part of the writing process was putting together our first rough draft. This was the most challenging part as it required us to write our first college paper, which was graded heavily like a rough draft. This was not a rough draft you submitted to just get points, and I soon …show more content…
I will be the first one to admit, my first rough draft was horrible, and one of the main perpetrators of the cause was my terrible grammar. This was bad throughout the whole paper as I had misspellings, comma splices, run-on sentences, and a decent amount of conjunctions. Getting a mediocre grade on the rough draft made me start proofreading more and with this helping my grammar tremendously. The second place where I feel like I grew was that i found my voice as a writer. In the beginning I was struggling to find my voice, using it minimally at best. The argumentative paper really made me implement more of my voice which I think helped me grow more as a writer and will benefit me more in the future as i will be looking to develop this