Reflective Essay On My Life As A Writer

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“ And now the end is near”, a famous lyric from the Frank Sinatra song “My Way”, but in a way for myself the end is near. This semester I’ve learned a lot, and seen myself exceed expectations that I thought I would never accomplish. With dedication and will power, I kept coming to class, learned different writing styles, and how to write those styles myself. All the supporting materials that are in this folder right now are different steps I took to become a better writer, and each one has some good points and bad ones.
From the very first assignment to the last, I can tell you that I have learned a lot more then I did before I came to this class.
My first paper I wrote, “Life of a Writer” was the first time I thought to myself that I would not pass this class. I knew it wasn’t my best work, but when I got it back I saw a lot of errors, and a whole page of writing on the back from Dr. McSpadden. It was the first time I felt that couldn’t become a better writer because I thought the whole semester was going to be like my first paper. The feedback from Dr. McSpadden described to me what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. It was very descriptive on how I was presenting the information I had as a writer, but the transition and placement between each
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Here I found facts that Obama wanted between the two countries, but he had two audiences one in America and Cuba. This paper was probably my best because I really took the time to review Obama speech multiple times and go through multiple sites to see what the overall reaction he got from everyone. I felt that I could’ve written so much more about his speech, but I would gone over the requirement if I did do it. Overall this was my favorite assignment that I was given because I felt that there was so much information that I could talk

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