What I Learned In My Writing Class

This year I learned more about writing than any others years I had English. I loved the hand on practices, tips, and lessons that we always had to prepare us for the writing assignments. I am so used to learn all rules and figure out when to break them, and when to keep them. It was really confusing how l learn to write. Therefore I was never a good writer or cared to be one. This I actually wrote something that I thought was good. I liked how we talked about the assignments before hand. It sets us in the mood and informs us what we are writing. I learned that it is much easier to write about something that you can get to know the topic first instead of jumping right into it. I was always encouraged to pick a topic and just write something about it. The topics never did grow on me and I never cared about what I wrote. I just wrote for the sake of completing an …show more content…
I found this assignment very entertaining and thought provoking at first. I digged around my head and found some good times in all of my years in school. I remembered times that I actually liked school. It was when school was more like a play day than a job. I liked see my friends and just hang out with them. I wrote five to six pages about those good old days when the assignment required three to four pages. Then as i gave more thought on the topic, I realized the only reason I am where I am was because of all the people that were in my life. So I shifted gear, and rewrote another four to five pages about those people instead. It was hilarious when Mrs Longman and I tries to shorten the essay, because I never had any problem with exceeding the page limit before. We literally cut to the point where there is nothing can be cut. This assignment was excellent introduction to writing, it not only showed my what I am capable of, but also showed me why I am writing anything at all. It gave me a reason to put effort in the essays I