Reflection: What I Learned In My Writing Class

Reflective Paper As Benjamin Franklin said “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Most people won’t do something worth writing about in their lifetime but almost everyone can write something worth reading if they actually tried to. Writing is a key concept to life. You will always have to write no matter where your career is headed further in life. Going into this class I thought that I was a pretty good writer already and that I would pass through this class with flying colors. I was wrong. This class has helped me become a better writer in so many ways. I have grown so much from what I learned last year. I had no idea writing required so much until this class. My writing skills have grown a lot in the illustration essay, the process analysis essay, and the research paper. First off, I think that the illustration essay about altering public space was one of my favorite ones. It was one of the first big papers we did in this class. I like the papers where you don’t have to do any research or anything you can just talk about experiences and things that have happened in your lifetime. That is what I am best at. I like talking about things that I know something about and don’t have to take words from other people and include them in my paper. It got me off to a good start to the semester. It was my best grade …show more content…
I actually enjoyed writing it. It was on how not to lose weight. I had fun writing that one. I had to come up with some good ideas on that one. You always hear people talk about how they want to lose weight, so I thought that I would come at them with how not to do that because our assignment was how not to do something. All of those steps came pretty easy to me. I enjoy making up stuff like that. I had never really written an anti process essay before it was pretty cool. I had to learn how to write it from the book and the sections on the process