What I Learned In Writing Class

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Throughout this course I feel that it definitely kept my interest way more than I thought it would. In high school, I would simply not do my reports or papers. I have never enjoyed or found writing the bit interesting. Ever. I don’t know what it is about writing that I honestly just really do not enjoy. I think it may have something to do with how much you actually have to think and compose. I have done well in courses like Mathematics solely because you put an input, and automatically have an output. Also, with whatever your answer may be, you can go back and check to see if it is correct or wrong. In writing there is not much of an right or wrong answer; There is right and wrong grammar and punctuation, but not really a right or wrong opinion. I feel that this is one of the main reasons I have always struggled in writing. …show more content…
With writing, you write and it goes out to an audience that some people may love what is in front of them and be very pleased, and others displeased and unhappy with what is in front of them. There are always going to be different people, and I always like to find a topic that I feel more people than less can relate on and like. I honestly do not believe that, that is important in writing anymore. If you are always writing for the best topic, in order to have the best grade, it is like your forcing yourself to write about something you’re interested about. I enjoyed this class because for the most part we could chose whatever topics we wanted and I definitely tried to take advantage of that in this course. Outside of high school this is my first writing course in a very long time and I was proud of my drive to complete it

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