My Reflection: My Struggle To Being A Successful Writer

A couple of months ago, I wrote about how I struggle to create an interesting hook that captures my professor’s attention. Here I am, multiple months later and I still struggle to write the perfect hook. Am I okay with that? Actually, yes, because I know I grew in many other areas during this course. I believe I have progressed more than I have in any other English class. I recognize my weaknesses, and I have grown in numerous ways becoming a more experienced and successful writer. Throughout this semester, I have established who I am as a writer, reader, editor and rhetor. Learning how to be diverse within my writing was one key change that made my work stronger. My first reflection feedback included a suggestion to tell the reader more about myself. I needed to be more personal, meaningful and …show more content…
Sadly, I did not perform grade wise as well as I had hoped in this class, but that doesn’t mean I need to shut down and stop here. It actually has motivated me. Sometimes you need to break yourself down before you build yourself back up. I suppose that is exactly what this class did for me. I learned about all my weaknesses. Now I know where I need to improve and grow. Although I struggle with form and grammatical errors, I love to write, speak and express my own opinions. I am interested in taking a journalism class, or a presentational speaking class. These courses might better fit my strengths and force me to continue to work on my weaknesses. While my grade could have been better in this class, learning where I want to go in terms of future English courses is priceless. No advisor could tell me what this course taught me, to be myself and work hard to overcome my weaknesses. As I reflect, I do realize that I did get everything out of this class that I hoped. I grew in many ways, and came out of the class knowing who I am as a writer and how I can improve