Importance Of English Honors Essay

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Ever since I can remember I have hated writing. Specifically, my hatred towards writing began my second year of high school when I decided to take English honors. The reason why I took English honors was because I knew it would benefit my GPA by giving me an extra point that would pump it up. My reading comprehension skills were good so I thought that by changing from a regular English class into English honors would be a piece of cake so I took a test to see if I had the qualifications to be in that class and I passed, but to my surprise the class was not that easy as I thought it would have been. Moreover, prior to my honors class in sophomore year my freshman English class was more about grammar so we never wrote essays that would prepare us for future writing classes because it was assumed we knew how to write one already, but when I got to English honors writing essays is all we did. I dreaded going to my English honors class every day, because I felt that no matter how hard I tried writing a good paper it was never enough to get me a grade higher than a C. This caused me to feel embarrassed, dumb, and ashamed. While all my friends were getting A’s and B’s I was always stuck with a C, so it was difficult for me to have confidence in my writing. Now I accept my papers were not at the level …show more content…
In my second essay(final draft) you wrote, “This essay is very much like a 5 paragraph essay, you state a 3 part thesis then develop each part 1 paragraph at a time…not allowing room for your r.s. to develop.” Previously on my second draft you also wrote in the comments that my essay read like a five paragraph essay, but it was not until your final comment that I came to understand that my arguments were not well developed, because I have always tried to follow that structure leaving my argument out of the essays and not giving the readers reasons why they should believe anything I

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