My Reflection Of My Writing In High School

Throughout the course of this semester, I have seen tremendous growth in my writing, research, and thinking abilities. When I first began this course, I had no idea what college writing entailed and how to write a piece of scholarly work. My previous experience with writing in high school was dominated by the typical five paragraph structure essay. This course was so essential for me to learn how to write academic papers and enter an actual scholarly discussion, which will allow my writing to have an actual impact in the real world. When I started my writing seminar, I had an idea of what good writing was from high school, and through writing seminar, I built on those skills as well as developed new skills. In high school, I learned that …show more content…
One of them is coming up with an original idea for a thesis. Throughout the semester, I had trouble coming up with an original idea for my thesis. Sometimes my idea was similar to another scholar’s idea and wasn’t truly original. During the semester, I meet with my professor and the writing center. They gave me hints at what sources to look at to develop an original thesis, which was really helpful. However, in the future, I would like to be able to create a thesis by myself. I would like to be able to look at sources and find a gap and think of a way to fill the gap by myself. This would truly help my academic writing and thinking abilities. I could further develop this skill by reading articles in general. I can read opinions articles on news websites. Then I can think about their argument and challenge their argument, which will allow me to develop my critical thinking abilities. In addition, I can further improve my skills in connecting sentences with the topic and stress positions. I think connecting sentences using the topic and stress positions will make my writing clearer, which allows the reading to better understand my essay. I can develop this skill outside of my writing seminar class by practicing it in everyday writing. I should make sure that each of my sentences starts out with an old idea and ends by introducing a new idea. By taking advantage of the stress position, I can my writing better and clearer to the