Reflective Essay: How Has Improved In My Writing

Throughout the semester, I was required to write essays for EN 101. In previous years, I wrote mostly the same style of essays, however, this semester I was required to write many different styles of essays. Thus, I was forced to leave my comfort zone for writing and to challenge myself, which in turn helped to improve my writing. My essays that I have wrote for EN 101 demonstrate that I have improved in supporting my thesis, keeping the paper organized, and creating better conclusions. Although my writing has improved, I still need to work to create stronger transitions between paragraphs and new thoughts within my papers. When this semester first started, I struggled to support my thesis throughout the entirety of my essay. My first paper, the narrative essay, is a great example of how I struggled. The topic of this paper was a book that was significant to me. I had a thesis for this paper which stated three different ways the book had impacted me, however I found it challenging to expand upon these three topics within my paper. In one paragraph I discussed how the book taught me life lessons, but I could not provide a good example, so I simply quoted a line from the …show more content…
Most times I would simply take one sentence from each paragraph in my essay, and form one conclusion paragraph that was very repetitive, and often oddly worded. The conclusion to my narrative essay is a perfect example. Each sentence in the paragraph can be found in another paragraph throughout the essay. While I am still working to improve my abilities to write a conclusion paragraph, I believe that I have started to show signs of improvement over the course of this semester. In more recent essays, I have worked hard to summarize the essay without simply rewriting a five sentence version of the essay. I have also worked to make sure that my conclusion paragraphs are not overly