Personal Reflective Essay Analysis

Where has time gone? I am now a freshman in college writing well-developed papers with over 1,000 words, trying to master and hone my skills I’ve gained over the years. No longer am I that tiny little kid sitting in the back of the room in my kindergarten class, learning how to write words and learn the fundamentals of writing. As I went through middle school and then high school, I learned more skills to create a well thought out paper. Although I’ve written papers almost my entire life, it seems like, I’m not perfect at writing papers but then again not everyone is. Some of my greatest weaknesses are having my thoughts all jumbled up in my head and trying to write it all down and being worded improperly, or having sentence fragments, and …show more content…
I figured it wouldn’t be much of a difficult task considering most my previous papers were about personal experiences. But, this is where I went wrong and overlooked the assignment. I underestimated the paper and its lengthy 1,000-word requirement. I chose to write about my first football game of senior year, I had so many vivid memories and flashbacks running through my head that I forgot to check my sentence structures. I created so many sentence fragments, run-ons, and punctuation errors. I should have sat down and looked over my paper more often and had it looked over more than once. in the narrative essay, I wrote the paper a few days before, then had a conference, looked over it once and changed a few things, and then I turned in my final draft. I had so much confidence and acted like I had a perfect paper, I had a fixed mindset. That was a complete letdown for me starting off the year. I was so hyped and excited to have my paper read and to receive a great score that I forgot to take care of the little problems, the fundamentals I learned sitting in the back of the room playing with crayons while in kindergarten. Something had to be done with my approach to this class, I had to change for the next