My Writing Experience

We have all faced many challenges throughout our scholarly careers. It started in our early childhood years when we first learned how to read and write. Since then, reading and writing have been a norm. Time passes by and our brains develop learning new skills along the way. Each year, we advance grades preparing ourselves for the next. The challenges and difficulties of an English class advance as well, testing our knowledge and skills, and expanding the horizons of our critical thinking process.
Before stepping foot in this English class, I was fairly confident in my reading and writing skills. My junior year of high school I had an English class taught by a very intelligent man that many students admired. He went by the name of Coach MacQueeny. …show more content…
I didn’t think “Writing About Writing” was going to be a book worth reading. The thought about writing about your own writing or someone else’s writing was a bit confusing to me. Then one of the first excerpts we read was Perl’s, “The Composing Process of the Unskilled College Writer”. That excerpt was very beneficial for me. It taught me extra skills I needed to know and what to do and not do. After reading this excerpt, I realized that this book may be valuable for me after all and that I could learn something from it. Anything I can learn from is definitely worthwhile. Every one of our readings had a purpose. There was never a time we couldn’t take something from the reading and apply it to our writing and critical …show more content…
McSpadden’s comments was that I needed to improve my critical thinking and think more in depth, in more of a collegiate level. Immediately, I knew what I had to change about my writing process to allow me to do so. I tend to be really good at procrastinating, always putting things off until the last minute. By doing this I didn’t give myself enough time to be able to think more critically. For our discourse community paper, instead of waiting until the day before to write my paper, I gave my self a lot more time to write. I felt that the paper was planned out better, the structure of the paper was put together a lot better, and it was more descriptive. I thought more critically than I usually would, thus, allowing me to write a more effective paper and receive a better