Reflective Essay: The Strength Of My Writing

This class has been very difficult for me, but I have benefited a ton from taking it. Overall I think that a strength of mine when writing was that I had background knowledge on all of my topics. Some of my weaknesses were that I would be too wordy at times and my grammar was not always the best. It was difficult for me to write lengthy papers since I would run out of things to talk about. My favorite essay was the description essay because I enjoyed getting to go that in depth with details. I also liked getting to write a shorter essay because that way I could put all of my time and effort into making the page and a half the best it could be. Peer response groups were, for the most part, pretty helpful to my writing process. The only thing that would frustrate me was when people would mark something wrong on my paper that was not wrong. Other than that, the groups were a huge help with coming up with ideas and fixing little mistakes. I liked how everyone would have different opinions on portions so I …show more content…
For most of my essays, I decided to wait until the last minute to write them since that is what I do with most of my homework. I do not typically work well in class because I cannot focus with any distractions. This eliminated considerable chunks of time that I could have progressed in my writing. If I would have put more effort into the essays right away I think that I could have worked out most of the minor errors that were still present in some of my final drafts. Voice and style were rather prevalent in my essays. My writing style is not too formal; I like to write as though I am talking to one of my friends. Since I am pretty relaxed and simple, I enjoyed writing the process analysis essay since it was easy to write about the steps to do something. I would say that my description essay has the strongest voice out of all of my essays because I had to describe everything by how I believed it would