Essay About My Writing Style

This semester I have learned much about my own writing style and how it can be perfected. There’s many new techniques and little tweaks that have and will help me with my writing. My papers from the beginning of the year will prove that I have fixed many major and minor problems in my assignments and they will stick with me for as long as I am able to write. I have learned many things about my writing style that I had not noticed before this class. For instance, I realized how much I used the word “you” or “we” in my writing without even thinking about it. My essay and assignments have also opened my eyes to how much I put in my own opinion into the essays. The hardest essay for me to write was the report because I was having so much trouble just stating the facts. I have noticed these …show more content…
The most valuable thing I believe that I have learned this year is parenthetical citations and work cited pages. Before this class I had no clue how to do either of these tasks. I did not even know you had to include them in your essay, I thought the URL for where I got the information was enough. Now I know how to layout a work cited page and this will save me from plagiarizing. Another skill that has grown is my grammar. My grammar is still not perfect, but comparing all my essays together it shows that it has improved immensely. This can help me in the future so I will not make a fool of myself in front of my future boss. I will sound educated and reliable, which is a great way to appear on paper. The last thing that will help me from here on out is time management. Before this class I procrastinated constantly and would always do the work the night before it was due. But with this class I knew I could not do that, if I procrastinated I would not have gotten the assignment done on time. This has taught me a great skill to have and being prepared and efficient is a lot less