Reflective Essay That Graded My Writing

I always viewed writing assignments in school as tedious and mundane. I felt as if I was not doing anything valuable. I did not think my writing was getting any better since I would follow a scheme of an essay and every essay written in class would look similar. Moreover, I sure that when professors graded my essay, it was just another boring paper for them. Also, I did not understand why I should have used more synonyms and more complex sentences when all of these were making it harder to get the point across.
Then I discovered Quora.com, a question and answer platform online where anyone can write and contribute. In the beginning, I would just read all the fascinating answers that others were writing. Sometime after, I started to write answers