Reflective Essay: How To Improve My Writing Skills

Writing has always been one of the most difficult skills that I have been learning through my college career, but it has also been the most important skill because unlike other skills writing affects my works across all courses or subjects. Writing has also helped me to get in to UMD, receive scholarships, and be accepted in research programs. Therefore, all the effort that I have made to improve my writing skill is worth it. From experience, writing is not like other skills that one can learn overnight, for me, writing skill is very slow progress and requires a lot of writing and reading; this is what I got from this class. In this class, my writing has advanced because I am reading more, practicing more, and writing more. After completing the Targeted Application Package, my personal stamen has improved dramatically. The process that we followed such as the reviewing the application description, position analysis, audience analysis, the old assignment workshop, and peer review have a combined effect on the …show more content…
Writing has not been my favorite thing because it takes me ages to complete a single page paper. But for the second assignment, I started to write everything out without giving too much attention for small errors, and I am able to write a lot faster. Of course, my first draft is not as it used to be, but I can go back correct my errors at any time. In addition, my big problem was that I would always start from the beginning and work my way down. However, if I stalled on the introduction which I always tried to make it attractive, I would stop the whole and leave the work for later. Now, I know I can write any section of the paper and join them together at the end. This is really working well for me for the Research Review assignment, for my introduction and abstract are talking about the middle section of