Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Writer

Over the first semester I feel I have been appropriately challenged in the area of writing we have done this year. I learned many new skills, but the most important one involves English and how to write properly. As for the first writing, I really did not understand what was right and what was wrong. Because I never paid close attention to specific rules in how to write. I truly believe it has been hard for me. I really have to concentrate when writing to be able to fully complete me sentences. I am satisfied with my overall experiences as a writer, because I have exceeded my self-expectations when typing or writing, but there is always room for improvement. Especially in sentence order and correct grammar such as commas.
The skills I acquired this semester helped further develop my skills as a writer. Specifically, the ability to quote books. My vocabulary increases almost every year from new words being created or just learning them from my parents. Having to quote an author or character came in handy in the Into the Wild essay. Such as when I was quoting Jon Krakauer’s writing, “… What is this titan that has …show more content…
I went about writing the paper just as I would any other essay, except I added the poster component. I thought I wrote this specific essay faster than any other, since it was only suppose to be a paragraph or page. I went into depth on each picture by explaining why they represented transcendentalist views for example a herd of white sheep with one lone black sheep this shows nonconformity. According to the rubric I had a unique approach to the project and overall, I exceeded basic requirements. This is one reason I received 50 out of 50 points. I believe that so far, this was the biggest project (regarding points) other than this portfolio. What makes me so proud of this piece is I received no help whatsoever from any source, which shows how capable I am of obtaining a good score by