Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Writing Class

This past March, I was choosing my classes for my freshman year of high school. My mother and I were looking over the courses offered for first-year students at the high school, when we saw that all students are required to complete a writing course while they attended Bedford High School. There were three options for how I could attend the course. I could take the course; in school during the summer, in school during the school year, or online during the summer. After talking to current high school students and hearing a presentation from guidance counselors, I knew that I should take the class in the summer, so I could take an extra elective and not be stuck with as much homework during the school year. After narrowing down my choices to either taking the course …show more content…
Throughout this journey through In Writing, I have become a better writer overall and I will be able to apply my new skills that I’ve learned in this class throughout the school year in many different subjects. I have improved upon the weaknesses that I had before participating in this advantageous class. By taking this In Writing class, I have been able to substantially improve upon my skills as a writer. The main areas of my improvement are; sentence length and not having run-on sentences, the length of my thesis statement, and word choice.
With my word choice, I would previously use the same word over and over again where a better word or phrase could’ve been used in the same position.This would lead to my writing being repetitive and dull. For example, in the rough draft for the first Response to Literature essay, which I wrote on Robert Frost’s poem After Apple Picking, I wrote, “He has this indecision because he wants to chase his goals and dreams in his final days of his life, but he is so tired from all he has done in life that all he wants to relax and rest in his final moments of life. The line that shows the man still has dreams he wants