Reflective Essay: The Evolution Of My Writing

Evolution is the concept of growth throughout time for improvement. In this process the continuous solution of problems leads to more productivity in the handling of it. The level of my writing has evolved through the many assignments and papers I’ve had to create. The growth has been directed towards the specific category of writing which I’ve practiced to fit into. This category better known as College writing consists of educated qualities that are important to apply for future writing. With all the writing I’ve done this year in a college class my overall format, the application of source information, and the preparation of my writing have been pushed to new horizons. My writing has gained a strong sense of format from the papers I’ve …show more content…
This covers my transitions of format from high school to format that is more college level but format is not everything in writing. Preparation, especially in a paper or essay, is a key strategy I used to perfect my writing. As I would prepare to write a paper that was significantly lengthy and required much review I commonly use outlines. These outline allowed me to form a skeleton for each paper which then were extended upon to form the full paper. This allowed me to change ideas and therefore large portions of the main projects simply through quick adjustments of the outline. In the project one synthesis I wrote my own outline to assist myself in my writing without the requirement to do so for a grade. This assisted me but since it had no weight in my grading I gave it much less importance and it was quite rudimentary. It mainly consisted of source quotes and main topics. So I would write something such as “A - In“Weekly Address: Taking Control of Our Energy Future” Obama uses a bar graph to show the change in gas prices since he came to office”. This would establish that I would use the Weekly Address article and further explain how bar graphs were important to Obama for showing change in gas prices. I would better focus on the main topic and through brainstorming establish the support that best aided that topic. Brainstorming was and has always been key to my prewriting. Simply jotting down ideas that would come to me and later using the outline to give them a proper position and order has come to be the most productive way for me to write. In journal seven I learned to better my outlines as we had to make an outline for the project two