Reflective Essay On Timed Writing

I never considered myself to be an excellent writer but still thought I wrote well enough to get my point across without confusing the reader too much. However, any confidence that I had in my writing skills was lost for a short time when I had to write my first timed essay in school. Luckily, the timed essay assignment also helped me see that I needed to work on my writing and, as a result, actually turned out to be a more positive experience rather than a negative one. It was just another regular school day that was near its end, and I had one more class to go to before everyone was released to go home. I walked into the classroom of my last class of the day expecting to just take notes and listen to a lecture. Unfortunately for me, the teacher announced that we were going to write a timed essay based on a chapter of a book we were reading. This task did not seem challenging at first, and the thirty minutes we were given to write our essays seemed like plenty of time. Nonetheless, I still managed to turn what was supposed to …show more content…
Especially since, as I discovered not long after this experience, a timed essay is a part of the standardized tests I would need to take to get into college. Even though my first experience of writing a timed essay may not seem like the greatest, it was still beneficial. I was able to see that I needed to develop ideas quicker when writing, especially if I wanted to do well on the writing portion of a standardized test (on which I guess I did okay, but would have done much worse if I had not known what to expect). And although I am still not the greatest at timed writing, I hope to continue to improve my writing skills throughout my time at