Essay On Improving My Writing Skills

College can be full of twist and turns. Especially when you have a full schedule. Coming into English 101 I didn’t feel too confident about my writing I have never been a great writer. Kathleen Reiman has been a great factor in improving my writing skills this semester and I want to continue to improve. We have gone over so much in this class, and I felt I kept improving with each essay. The final portfolio that was due for this class consisted of my two best written essays which were “Divorce’s Positive and Negative Effects in America,” and “The Controversial Topic on Illegal Immigration.” The first essay in my portfolio was a cause and effect paper on divorce. This was my best piece of writing for this class, but there were still a lot of changes I could make. One of the problems was that my fluency of my essay was not quite up to par. Also grammar, and wording was another problem that was occurring in this essay. I needed to reread my essay, and analyze it carefully to avoid these things. For the portfolio I went back and reread my essay while …show more content…
This essay was a problem and solution essay where I choose a very controversial topic on illegal immigration and how to fix it. The changes I made to this essay were similar to the divorce essay I wrote which shows that I still need work in these areas. The problems that were occurring in this essay were once again fluency, grammar, wording, and back up my facts. To help polish this essay up I went back through and reread the essay a couple of times working on the parts that I knew needed some fine tuning done. Once I would read through it, and fix some errors I would then again read through it to see if I missed something. From this essay I learned that I need to make sure I was backing up my ideas with reliable sources. Also still need to make sure a reread my essays to catch simple mistakes before submitting