Improving Writing Skills Reflection Paper

At the beginning of this semester I remember thinking to myself “I’m not going to do very well in this class am I?” I know for a fact that I’m not a very good English student. Personally I don’t like to read. My writing skills were around average. Then our first class summary on the book “The Slave Next Door” came in. I just remember taking a deep breath thinking “here goes nothing” after the first five minutes of simply focusing it’s as if my fingers had a mind of their own. I went wild on that paper. I was expecting a seventy on that paper but I ended up getting an eighty. I was surprised to learn that I had decent skills in writing. As time passed by and I attended more and more classes I remember just completely focusing on the professor. …show more content…
A good and powerful thesis is needed, followed up by a counter argument, at least three body paragraphs and a conclusion. My research skills greatly improved as well because during the casual essay unit I learned about plagiarism and how to avoid that. While learning about plagiarism I learned about reliable sources and how to do in text citations for these sources. Linking all these skills my research skills improved. Now I know how to do well organized and informative papers while using reliable resources. I have chosen to evaluate my first two essays. My evaluation essay and my casual essay. I chose to revise these essays because they are my best essays as of today and I would like to see how much I can improve an already good essays. With these new skills how much can I improve? For my evaluative essay I chose to focus mostly on my local revisions. I did not need to work on any global revisions for this essay because there were no major errors in my ideas, purpose, evidence, or organization. For my local revisions I need to work on my paragraph transitions for this essay. My casual essay will have the greatest