Reflective Essay: Improving My Writing Skills

Since I have participated in Duel Enrollment English, my writing skills have improved through each paper and exercise that I have written. I use longer and more diverse vocabulary and write more complex sentences that vary in length. Each project that I worked on helped me overcome obstacles that I previously struggled with. This English class has truly given me an chance to practice and improve my writing skills. The first project, "Writing Process with Metaphor," gave me an opportunity to think about my personal writing process as well as compare it with another process. In the first pre-writing exercise, I thought and wrote about the process I use to write an essay. I started by creating a short outline in order to organize my …show more content…
For this essay I read Paine's "Age of Reason" and compared his views with my views. As I read his work, I discovered that most of my beliefs contradict his beliefs, and the only similarities that we had were mostly broad premises. After readings about Paine's worldview, I made a list of both similarities and differences between our worldviews which I referred to consistently as I wrote my essay. Since this essay was a compare and contrast essay, I had minimal difficulties writing it. In the end, project three provided me wth an opportunity to discover my beliefs and learn about the beliefs of others as well as communicate those beliefs in an …show more content…
Even though it was difficult to write at first, the process of writing this essay became easier and less confusing. Project four involved multiple components that involved both learning the American Psychological Association essay format and learning how to create a rhetorical analysis of an