My Writing Class Analysis

At the start of this class, I was a person that avidly enjoyed writing and often did so in my free time. I was very excited to start this class but also nervous because it was my first college class and I didn’t know what to expect. The most nerve-racking part for me was posting my drafts for the whole class to read. I am a perfectionist and knowing all the other students were going to read and respond to my writing made me very anxious. However, the students commenting on my drafts helped me tremendously and made me a better writer. Throughout this class I learned that I need to be more patient with myself as a writer. At the beginning of the semester, I noticed that I expected my writing to be perfect and worthy of an A the first time I sat down to write. This was never the case and I was hard on myself because I expected everything to be perfect. With the peer responses on the rough drafts I could see what areas of my essays were good and the areas I struggled and that helped me more and more throughout the semester. I also learned that I am even more of a perfectionist than I first believed, I would go through and revise numerous times never …show more content…
The literary analysis essay was certainly the most challenging for me to write and to start. I had all the ideas and reasoning’s for the way I felt about the story I was just unable to put them into an essay that flowed nicely. It took me multiple times to format the essay correctly to make sense. This was another instance that the peer responses helped me and I could make the corrections needed to better my paper. My favorite essay was the literacy narrative. It gave me a chance to write about a very important moment in my life and I was grateful that we got to pick the topic. Getting to pick the topic of the essays was also very helpful in exploring what topics I was better at writing