The Influence Of Function On My Writing

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The start of the year I have grown in my writing and grammar skills in ELA 10. I have been challenged a lot this year from my teacher on different types of writing processes and different types of writing pieces. In the beginning of the year I used to struggle and have a really bad procrastination on my writing where I would basically just write what came to mind and I meaninglessly put it down on paper. Functioning through and looking back at old pieces of writing I sense if I put my mind to it and not fool around my writing would definitely improve. I've ingenious my strengths and weaknesses this year and to examine all my work I have seen how much I have changed since the beginning. In the first place at the beginning of the year my teacher …show more content…
I've struggled with those because I have never really understood how to transition to the thesis statement then go on to the additionally paragraph. For instance, in my argumentative essay for the book “Into the Wild” I did a really good starting sentence and a good ending sentence saying, “Now-a-days society ignores nature and what it holds so deeply. We need to prevent these forest fires or killing of animals because that’s precious and it can’t be taken back,” on the other hand, my conclusion saying, “There is a boy named Chris McCandless that really gave back to nature and decided to take on the outside world challenges.” I've progressed on my introduction skills as a writer, not perfect but I have been working on it. Improving on my creative word play in my Damien Echols Essay I extended my word choice, like so, “According to society we the people have to correspond with the same things and do the same things in order for us to be in line, but when someone steps out of the box people act so cantankerous for him.” I have gained loads of vocabulary over the semester as well as writing style works. Im positive over next semester I will grasp as much information to make my writing spotless and interesting to be …show more content…
The biggest challenge I had to face this semester was basically formulating an essay, start to finish and also having better vocabulary. I have been in the process of achieving this goal, but I have used the website Paper Rator and it has helped my writing a bunch.With marking my mistakes and especially demonstrated my strengths and weaknesses. Consequently there is a piece of writing i have been very proud of this semester. My American Dream Myth or Reality article response because, I enjoyed writing about my favorite idol and how he has impacted so many people's lives, which inspired me to write about him and furthermore knowing so much information i was eligible to write about that. Among other things I plan to experiment with new material next semester and hopefully be able to construct better essay

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