The Struggles Of My Writing Class

Over the course of the last semester and taking English 112 my writing has improved dramatically since my junior year and since taking English 111. In the class we’ve written a total of four essays which all had to be a total of five pages each. In each one of my papers I’ve had things that I needed to improve on to better the next. So as I worked on each paper I tried looking back at the others to see what I needed to improve on and what I can change. There were a lot of different varieties of papers that we had to write in this course. Trying to coop with all the changes was one of the hardest things I had to deal with. We wrote four main papers that were either APA format or MLA format. I struggled mostly with APA format because this was …show more content…
My overall best paper in the course was my argumentative paper; I say it’s my best because I put a lot of hard work into it and was very proud of the result that I got out of doing the paper. The paper was in APA format and had to be five pages with an abstract and a reference page. My topic in this paper was, The Struggles of The American Dream, basically that the American Dream has become so hard to achieve lately that it’s basically a dream people have of doing. Most of my research came from our class book, They Say I Say, which is where we had to get our topic from. One of my many struggles in this paper was trying to keep the correct format and reference things in my paper from the book. I also struggled with comma usage in this paper and had to clean it up for my final draft. My last main struggle was trying to make my argument stronger, at first it was just a statement and really not an argument to the paper. My strength in this paper was my introduction; I did well with setting up the structure of the essay and setting up the theme of the paper. I learned a lot from this paper and was very proud of my overall …show more content…
We had to pick a topic out of the book we had called, They Say I Say; the topic I picked was The Innocence of the Game. I wrote about the innocence in the game of baseball and how cheating has been around for a long time and hasn’t just popped up in the modern day era of the game. I loved this topic and felt strongly about it because I am a baseball player myself so I related will to the topic. The thing I struggled with most in this paper was trying to follow the rubric. My teacher wanted us to focus on the rubric and write our paper in a specific way. I learned a lot while writing this paper, I really wasn’t too sure on how I would do but the outcome was pretty good. The next paper that was written was the Literary Analysis paper. This paper was in MLA format and we had to read the book Hamlet to complete it. We had to basically analyze Hamlet and write a paper on our views of it. My view of the play was that it was a play on revenge. I felt that everyone in the play was trying o get revenge on someone at some point in the play. We had to do a lot of research to back up our point and in the research I did I found that a lot of people felt the same way that I did about the play. My strength in this paper was my way of providing background information about my topic, which helped me lead to my thesis statement. With every paper I did I had some weak points that I needed to focused on.