Before I came to college, writing was one of the things I never wanted to do at all. I never liked it whenever my teacher tells me to write an essay. I thought I would always hate to write, but when I got better at it, I started to get into writing allot more. Once I stepped into college that 's when things gotten a little more serious. I had two writing classes this semester. During my time in class, I have begun to grow and learn more than I thought was even possible. Throughout this semester course, I have learned a lot while being in Composition I. Now that I have finished taking this course, I gained some knowledge and confidence it takes to step out into the real world. I always thought writing was only in English class. I soon realized
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I was told to examine and evaluate three stories and decide one out of the three to break down and analyze the meaning of it in an essay. I decided to write about a story called "Araby." After analyzing, I had to ask myself, why the author chose to use these devices, in these particular ways. What was the author’s purpose to use certain things more than others? I never imagined that there was something more to the story than what I read. When I wrote a literary narrative essay, I had made my life a story of how my reading and writing skills blossomed throughout my …show more content…
I use to have no confidence in my work. I often think I failed my essays, but I usually get at least a B on my essays. Development of me as a writer during this term was hard to imagine. Progressing as a writer took me practice and patience. You get better at math class because of practice or learning the different parts of the body in science because of memorization. During the semester, my class participated in workshops. I would think this was just a waste of time and just plain unnecessary. However, I realized my writing have improved dramatically. Just listening to the feedback and suggestions by my classmates, I realized how helpful their insight was. As more workshops went by, I was able to see parts of my essay that need revision much better. I now got into the habit into editing my work much more than usual. My mood and tone are much better to fit the right
I was told to examine and evaluate three stories and decide one out of the three to break down and analyze the meaning of it in an essay. I decided to write about a story called "Araby." After analyzing, I had to ask myself, why the author chose to use these devices, in these particular ways. What was the author’s purpose to use certain things more than others? I never imagined that there was something more to the story than what I read. When I wrote a literary narrative essay, I had made my life a story of how my reading and writing skills blossomed throughout my …show more content…
I use to have no confidence in my work. I often think I failed my essays, but I usually get at least a B on my essays. Development of me as a writer during this term was hard to imagine. Progressing as a writer took me practice and patience. You get better at math class because of practice or learning the different parts of the body in science because of memorization. During the semester, my class participated in workshops. I would think this was just a waste of time and just plain unnecessary. However, I realized my writing have improved dramatically. Just listening to the feedback and suggestions by my classmates, I realized how helpful their insight was. As more workshops went by, I was able to see parts of my essay that need revision much better. I now got into the habit into editing my work much more than usual. My mood and tone are much better to fit the right