Ever since I was a little girl, I can recall my parents telling me that I am good with my words. I always considered this a compliment whether it was because of an argument we had, an act of persuasion, them reading a school paper of mine, or even a birthday card. As I sit here and reflect on my experience with writing in my life, I find that I have only truly enjoyed putting my words on paper when they described something that I am passionate for, or heavily interested in. In general, I have thought of writing essays for school as being a largely intimidating task, not because I have trouble with my ideas but because I have trouble organizing my thoughts to flow well. To be honest, when I found out that I would not be able to exempt English
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I received a higher grade on this piece than on my poem analysis paper and I believe that this can be attributed to not only the fact that I learned from my mistakes in the first paper, but also because I have always been heavily interested in Hitchcock’s films. Going back on what I stated earlier, I love to write when I am passionate about the topic. I believe that my strengths in this paper were my visual analysis. It was necessary for me to create a strong visual analysis because my entire paper was based on the symbolism of color in the film. The reason I chose to write my entire paper about color is because I noticed the heavy repetition of certain colors in the film on my own. When I first began to draft this paper, I planned to only write a paragraph about colors. However, I soon came to realize that there were too many interesting details in relation to color that I wanted to share and …show more content…
English 1102 has not only assisted me in organizing my writing approaches, but has also helped me improve organization in other aspects of my life. I have learned to manage my time more efficiently by attributing the same planning and outlining techniques to the tasks I complete for other classes. Each piece I chose in addition to my biography and wild card showcase my strengths and improvements as a writer. Although I have always planned for this class to be my final English class, I now feel more inclined to watch myself grow as a writer by experimenting with other writing classes at UGA that offer me the opportunity to write about topics I am truly interested in, just as English 1102 did for
I received a higher grade on this piece than on my poem analysis paper and I believe that this can be attributed to not only the fact that I learned from my mistakes in the first paper, but also because I have always been heavily interested in Hitchcock’s films. Going back on what I stated earlier, I love to write when I am passionate about the topic. I believe that my strengths in this paper were my visual analysis. It was necessary for me to create a strong visual analysis because my entire paper was based on the symbolism of color in the film. The reason I chose to write my entire paper about color is because I noticed the heavy repetition of certain colors in the film on my own. When I first began to draft this paper, I planned to only write a paragraph about colors. However, I soon came to realize that there were too many interesting details in relation to color that I wanted to share and …show more content…
English 1102 has not only assisted me in organizing my writing approaches, but has also helped me improve organization in other aspects of my life. I have learned to manage my time more efficiently by attributing the same planning and outlining techniques to the tasks I complete for other classes. Each piece I chose in addition to my biography and wild card showcase my strengths and improvements as a writer. Although I have always planned for this class to be my final English class, I now feel more inclined to watch myself grow as a writer by experimenting with other writing classes at UGA that offer me the opportunity to write about topics I am truly interested in, just as English 1102 did for