The Importance Of Writing A Personal Essay

Notably, as a teenager I wrote a horrible academic essay in an easy English class in the 10th grade, and received a D. By way of contrast, as an adult I wrote an excellent research essay in an English class as a freshman in college, and received an A. Though, I made horrible mistakes on my personal essay as a teenager, I believe my writing has improved tremendously due to a research essay I wrote. For one thing, as a teenager in the 10th grade I wrote a horrible essay that received a non-passing grade, but now as an adult in college I proved I could write an excellent academic paper because I received an A on an essay that I wrote my freshman year of college. As a matter of fact, my teenage years were full of many horrible writing memories that I will never forget. Specifically, my worst writing memory as a teenager was when I did horrible in my 10th grade writing class. More importantly, this was when I wrote an essay based off my personal opinion, and received a D for my own personal opinion. However, I soon came to realize …show more content…
In other words, as a teenager writing my timed personal essay I did not care too much about the small grammatical errors, and how it was written. Specifically, I just cared how I would express my personal opinion in writing the personal essay. In fact, I remember I basically wrote my personal essay in a lazy manner. Thus, I just wrote my personal opinions without caring about organization. Conversely, when I wrote my research essay I carefully made sure I wrote the essay properly and that I did not make any grammatical errors. More importantly, I did not lazily write my research paper. Above all, I put a lot of effort into writing my research assignment. However, I might have felt that I put a lot of effort into my personal essay when I really did not, because if I put a lot of effort into my personal essay I would have received a higher