Essay About Writing Class

Over the course of this semester I learned a lot about how to be a better writer in Foundations for College Writing class. I really did not know how to write a proper paper when I entered college and that was one of my biggest concerns. However, as the class progressed I learned the many different steps that happen while writing a good college paper. This class also taught me that there are other factors besides just writing that are crucial to writing a decent paper. In the beginning of this semester, when I first had to write a mini paper for this class based on a television show I did not know how to approach it and how to be able to properly answer the questions and other things. So I just wrote to the best of my ability and hoped that …show more content…
I learned that the first step to writing a paper is to answer the question the prompt asks and that answer is what becomes the thesis statement. I then would try and come up with the three main reasons that support my thesis statement by using the “because” statement saying that A is because of B. After I have my thesis statement and my three main reasons, I then learned that the next step is to go through my text or anything that I will be using to support my thesis statement and find quotes that support my claims. Once I have written down the quotes that support my three reasons then I just have to go back and write my paper while adding an introduction and conclusion. The important thing is while writing the first draft is to write it as it comes into your mind. It really does not matter if it makes sense or not because once you are done, you revise the paper. That process has made writing papers for me very simple, especially to someone who really did not have the foundations to write an adequate college