Semester Test As the only sophomore in a class of many juniors and seniors, I felt as if my past writing approach was premature compared to my classmates. To succeed I thought I needed to stick to the rules when writing introduction paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusions, which made writing papers not very fun. While participating in this class, though, I realized that my style of writing was not to stick to the basics; my style of writing was my personality! I found that putting feelings into the essays and papers I wrote helped me write a much more advanced paper. Just as I imagined, this class strengthened my writing skills to the point where I am confident to keep moving forward into college writing classes and to keep challenging
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Even though we talked a lot about quotation use during this semester, I still feel weak when including them in my papers. Because I am not comfortable in using quotations and citations, I am going to challenge myself to write a research paper this summer for a 4-H project. I know that comfort will come through practice, and I hope I can master this skill! Writing seems to be all around me: in my extracurricular activities, employment, and future academic plans. The skills I have learned in this class have already aided me without the semester even being complete! The scholarship essay was a very important essay that I am glad I learned how to write, and I am relieved to now have prior knowledge about the essay before writing all of my own. At the beginning of the semester, when you showed us the past students’ responses, procrastination was in almost every response. Procrastination seemed to be a slight problem when writing my papers, but I also found that I had difficulty writing my papers in class around my peers. I was distracted easily which is not an aid in writing papers. Working in a quiet place with minimal distractions helped the process of my paper-writing even if it cost me valuable work time in class. I definitely could have worked to finish my papers a couple days before the due date rather than the night
Even though we talked a lot about quotation use during this semester, I still feel weak when including them in my papers. Because I am not comfortable in using quotations and citations, I am going to challenge myself to write a research paper this summer for a 4-H project. I know that comfort will come through practice, and I hope I can master this skill! Writing seems to be all around me: in my extracurricular activities, employment, and future academic plans. The skills I have learned in this class have already aided me without the semester even being complete! The scholarship essay was a very important essay that I am glad I learned how to write, and I am relieved to now have prior knowledge about the essay before writing all of my own. At the beginning of the semester, when you showed us the past students’ responses, procrastination was in almost every response. Procrastination seemed to be a slight problem when writing my papers, but I also found that I had difficulty writing my papers in class around my peers. I was distracted easily which is not an aid in writing papers. Working in a quiet place with minimal distractions helped the process of my paper-writing even if it cost me valuable work time in class. I definitely could have worked to finish my papers a couple days before the due date rather than the night