Personal Narrative: What I Learned In English 1A Class

At the start of the English 1A semester there a couple of things that I seemed to struggle with. First was I hadn’t written much of anything at all since high school had ended for me nearly four years ago, though I do try to keep a personal journal and loved writing poetry growing up. Between work, a dog, maintaining social activities and the daily hassles of life, writing quickly became an old past time. So, when sitting in class on my first day and being told to freewrite about anything, I froze not remembering how to just write though I am a girl who normally has plenty to say.
Once I finally got started another problem soon arose, it had been so long since I had to put anything down on paper that my mind was unaware of how to properly write a paragraph let alone an essay if I had too. There were words that would come to mind that I couldn’t remember how to spell so I would end up changing how I was saying something or what I was saying. There were moments where I’d put words down and then stare at them questioning if I had spelled them all right.
Finally, was punctuation I have never really known where to place all the fancy …show more content…
First was not to be overly stressed out when writing if you can’t remember how to spell a word or where a punctuation mark goes. Continue writing to make sure all your ideas are put on paper and you can look over it later to edit any mistakes or look up how to spell certain words as well as where punctuation marks should go. Secondly is that the first draft of paper isn’t going to be a butterfly because writing is a process that takes time. Thirdly, is that I am way to concerned with my penmanship to the point that I erase or start over way to often then end up forgetting what I was trying to say. With invisible writing, I can get everything down on paper without having to see what any of my writing looks like until I am done with writing the page I’m