What I Learned In My Writing

Over the course of my freshman year, I have taken a couple writing classes and have used my writing skills and methods to write many important papers. In the classes that I’ve taken, I’ve learned to communicate my ideas and myself as a whole in a more professional and coherent manner. Both of the professors I’ve had thought me various methods for advancing my writing. I’m becoming more comfortable with paraphrasing and analyzing various sources and tools. Although not finished, I feel like I’m growing considerably well as a writer as I have learned to recognize purpose and rhetorical situations and to also utilize them in my writing.

There are still many characteristics I would like to enhance in my writing for future references. My strengths and weaknesses in writing both come from the basis of me understanding the prompt, topic, article, book, etc. When I understand those factors clearly, I can fluently write my paper and the flow is flawless. When I don’t understand them thoroughly, I tend to write outside of the main focus and to also come from many different points of view. I would like to broaden my vocabulary some more because while it might be easier for someone with English as their first language …show more content…
During my preplanning for the essay, I came up with many ideas and pattern for the flow of my paper. After reading the articles for my sources, I made notes and used them but as always, I ended going off on a tangent and lost the focus of my main purpose in writing the paper. My strongest suit when it comes to the genre of writing is narrative, such as our diagnostic essay and this self evaluation essay. I cane write about my own observations and my own life better than I can analysis another person’s work. Which I know is not an appealing attribute for a writer to possess, but it is becoming one of my main focus when