My College Composition Class

I’ve never thought of myself as a strong writer before. For as long as I can remember I have always hated reading, English class, and writing. I realize my poor writing skills have come from my lack of reading throughout my childhood. However, now I enjoy writing a lot. Especially personal writing like I do in my journal. It can help me relieve my stress and ease my emotional pain. I always have a lot on my mind, considering I’m in nearly every activity Okoboji has to offer, and writing is almost like a way of venting. College Composition class has pushed me to write more since, without it, I probably wouldn’t be writing anything at all. And because of that, I’ve learned many things and most definitely grown as a writer.
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From composition class last year it was easy to get away with starting off a paper with a quote, but now that is just way too clique in the majority of instances. I’ve learned many other ways to start my papers; for instance, now I start my paper off with a personal story, a cliffhanging statement, or even a statistical fact. Another thing I could get away with was my title. Before, if I would have been writing a story about world peace, I would’ve titled my paper as ‘World Peace’. That just sounds tacky and unprofessional to me now, however. The first thing people are going to read is the title, so why not make it the most eye-catching thing about the whole paper? I’m not going to lie, I’ve had many struggles finding good titles up until a couple months ago; it took me forever to finally learn how important titles are. Lastly, are the conclusions. The conclusions are supposed to wrap everything up and tie everything in, and I knew that before but not as much as I do now. At the beginning of this class, I would basically repeat my exact thesis into the conclusion and call it good. I want to go back and yell at myself, “It’s a reflection, not an exact replication!”. However, I don’t need to because I know it now.
The last thing I would like to briefly touch on is repetition. It took me the whole entire class semester to work on this and I believe I finally understand. After I write a paper, I now go through and check if I used the same words over and over again. Sometimes repetition is a good way of writing such as in a poem, but this is something I was not meaning to do. I’ve learned to go back and check over my word choices and change them up a little bit. It’s helped my writing tremendously and is a helpful tool I will take on with me