Personal Narrative: My Writing In The Classroom

Throughout the quarter my writing has strengthen. Last year I honestly had no idea how to write a decent paper. My English teacher was also trying to get her doctorate and she didn’t have the time to be an effective teacher. She tired her best but really shouldn’t have been our teacher. She had to step up because our original teacher flaked out on us, and I really admire her for that. Though it wasn’t her fully fault I was taught nothing last year, all my knowledge of commas and sentence structure, let alone paper structure, came from middle school. I’m still not super great with grammar and sentence structure, however I’m learning to identify it in my own writing. Re-reading my reading responses, I can spot places that I could have worded sentences better. For example I wrote, “If they were being forced to work at hooters like prostitutes are by a pimp then it's not fun or what they want thus making it not okay.” I recognize now that I should have wrote, “If they are being forced to work, like prostitutes are by their pimp, it’s not fun, or what they want, thus making it not okay.” At least I think that’s how it should look. I’m still learning, and hoping my skills will increase as I continue my education. …show more content…
I write out a prewrite and then spit out the worst version of my paper, not worrying about spelling or grammar. Then I go through my paper revising and edit it like crazy. I edit, and edit, and edit, until I can’t think of anything else to edit. Then I go through and pick on my word choice, choosing more academic words that have a more precise meaning and that are probably longer to fill my page quota. In fact I’m doing that with this very paper. I often spend a lot of time on papers just planning and revising, like one should, but I also spend a great amount of time editing. I feel like it’s very effective to get a quality