Writing has been a part of my life for a long time. Growing up through elementary school writing short fiction stories to writing biographies in junior high to research papers and essays in high school. I haven’t ever really sat down to think about how far I have come as a writer, but when I finally did I realized the mountains I’ve climbed from starting out as a writer in my childhood. A lot of people overlook the importance of basic writing skills, myself included, but writing is the foundation from which the way express yourself, speak to others stems from.
To me good writing isn’t 100% based on punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Although they are very important to a good paper they aren’t as important to me as a strong voice. If I am reading …show more content…
I have a terrible habit of making a run on sentence, and not catching, or catching it and not knowing how to fix it. My other weakness in writing would be not knowing when to use a comma before, and or just leaving the and by itself. If I can sit back, and go over the basics on those two skills I feel that It could greatly improve my grades on my papers, and would also highlight the voice, and personality I put into my papers a little bit better. I found a website online called http://paperrater.com, and after playing around with it for a little bit I think it can help me better understand how to manipulate my sentences to avoid run on sentences, so from now on I will most likely run most of my papers through this site to get a second opinion before submitting …show more content…
By that I mean writing a way that nobody else does. Having a style like how grandma’s brownies taste better than the store bought ones. You can’t quite put a finger on exactly what is different about it, but you know it’s not the same old generic paper everyone else writes. My expectations for this class is to give my full attention to the teacher, and my work so that once I am all said and done I can look back and say I actually took something away from this class. Instead of just showing up for the grade I want to walk into class ready to learn something and retain the information. The only think I hope to get from my teacher in this class is to make me think. Sometimes when I ask a teacher a question instead of giving me ideas they tell me to put down what they would say. I don’t want to know their exact words on the subject then turn around and put them straight into my assignment. I just want them to give me food for thought that I can process in my own head and figure out how I want to work it into my piece. I don’t need somebody to walk me through the class step by step. I need somebody to give me the tools to make it through on my own. It’s like the old saying, if you catch a man a fish he will eat for a night. If you teach
To me good writing isn’t 100% based on punctuation, grammar, and spelling. Although they are very important to a good paper they aren’t as important to me as a strong voice. If I am reading …show more content…
I have a terrible habit of making a run on sentence, and not catching, or catching it and not knowing how to fix it. My other weakness in writing would be not knowing when to use a comma before, and or just leaving the and by itself. If I can sit back, and go over the basics on those two skills I feel that It could greatly improve my grades on my papers, and would also highlight the voice, and personality I put into my papers a little bit better. I found a website online called http://paperrater.com, and after playing around with it for a little bit I think it can help me better understand how to manipulate my sentences to avoid run on sentences, so from now on I will most likely run most of my papers through this site to get a second opinion before submitting …show more content…
By that I mean writing a way that nobody else does. Having a style like how grandma’s brownies taste better than the store bought ones. You can’t quite put a finger on exactly what is different about it, but you know it’s not the same old generic paper everyone else writes. My expectations for this class is to give my full attention to the teacher, and my work so that once I am all said and done I can look back and say I actually took something away from this class. Instead of just showing up for the grade I want to walk into class ready to learn something and retain the information. The only think I hope to get from my teacher in this class is to make me think. Sometimes when I ask a teacher a question instead of giving me ideas they tell me to put down what they would say. I don’t want to know their exact words on the subject then turn around and put them straight into my assignment. I just want them to give me food for thought that I can process in my own head and figure out how I want to work it into my piece. I don’t need somebody to walk me through the class step by step. I need somebody to give me the tools to make it through on my own. It’s like the old saying, if you catch a man a fish he will eat for a night. If you teach