Importance Of Being A Better Writer

This semester I grew as a writer. I learned how to be a better writer and I used what I learned to improve my essays. To become a better writer you have to try hard, spend time in revising the essay, use proper sentence and paragraph structure, and it is also important to use different vocabulary words throughout the essay. Before this class, I did not like writing essays and I only wrote the essay’s that I was forced to write in my other classes. I did not enjoy writing in those classes because I was not learning or expressing my feelings about the topic and we mostly wrote essays about books. But, in this class I enjoyed writing some of the essays we have done. I liked writing the career search essay because I got to look into the job I want to go into and I learned a lot about it. I also enjoyed writing the argumentative essay because I got to express my feelings about a topic that I cared about. Besides intermediate …show more content…
My list was about the greatest video games. When writing the essay, I struggled with thinking of new sentence starters and I was not good at writing topic sentences. A lot of my sentences in the essay start with the, for, and in. I could have thought of a different way to word the sentences and then they would have started with different words for all or most of the sentences. Another thing that I struggled with in this essay is topic sentences, the second paragraph in my essay did not have one and if I had taken a few minutes to have thought of one I could have gotten a better grade on my essay. Something I wish I had done was read over my essay many times to catch mistakes that I had made. In my essay, I missed a mistake that I made and the sentence was confusing and if I had spent some more time revising it, I could have fixed it by changing the way I put the sentence together and added a few more commas. Somethings I have improved are topic sentences and better sentence