My Writing Report

I am writing this letter to inform you of my previous writing samples from quarter one of my junior year at Saint John’s High School. In this first quarter, I have written a total of eight essays, four occasional papers and four in-class essays. Of these eight essays, I am most proud of is my third occasional paper. This paper was about the clowns in Massachusetts terrorizing children and young adults for no reason. This paper was not only my best one that I wrote, but, also my favorite one to write. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this essay because I knew a lot about the topic which made writing this paper easy and enjoyable. Unlike my other occasional papers, this one did not require additional online research which made the writing process that much easier. However, I did have difficulty writing the majority …show more content…
By writing these assignments I feel like I have vastly improved my writing. Before taking this class and writing all of these essays I am not afraid to admit that I was a horrible writer. I am still not that great of a writer but, I have improved a lot. Writing these essays is a tedious task but, it paid off in the end and helped me improve my writing a lot. I feel I have most improved on my sentence structure through completing these assignments. However, I still have a few weaknesses when it comes to writing. My biggest flaw in writing is definitely my grammar. Teenagers and high schoolers all use slang when talking in real life. When speaking face to face no one cares about grammar, all kids use slang words and talk however they want. For me, this affects my writing. Along with my bad grammar to start with this makes it worse. Grammar has always been a problem for me, in freshman and sophomore year I always did horrible on Mr.White’s grammar tests and quizzes. I hope to improve my grammar skills throughout this year and develop myself as a great