Reflecting WRTG 101 Writing has always been a personal experience for me. I have pages and pages of journal entries from various times throughout my life. Writing used to be an outlet for me to get the thoughts out of my head that I didn’t quite understand, or even a way to freeze a moment in time. My writing has always had such a personal voice on it that I would get negative remarks through high school. The teacher would tell me, “amazing writing, but you write as if you are speaking”. In turn, I gained a bit of a complex. To be honest, I have been avoiding WRTG 101 for years in fear of my work being judged. In addition, I was very apprehensive to take an English class while juggling my two daughters, other classes and unpredictable army
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I began WRTG 101 as an insecure and rusty writer with some serious grammatical bad habits; now I have a new-found confidence in my writing ability and a more profound grasp of APA formatting. In the first writing assignment, I found a great deal of comfort. It was such a relief that I was able to write about a personal experience in the first person. After submitting my essay, I checked about every hour, anxiously awaiting the feedback. To my surprise, my rusty, old, writing skills had come through as exceptional. It made me feel great, and I was actually excited to progress through the class. The compare and contrast essay introduced a new challenge to me with its APA formatting and citations. I chose to write about a topic I felt familiar with and that I related to in order to stay confident in my writing. Finding sources for my essay that related to my topic came fairly easy. I felt that once I was able to get through the introduction, the rest of the paper would come together. The feedback I received from that essay was mostly positive with the majority of the corrections surrounding the APA citations. I made it my goal with the cause and effect essay to not only have an essay that had
I began WRTG 101 as an insecure and rusty writer with some serious grammatical bad habits; now I have a new-found confidence in my writing ability and a more profound grasp of APA formatting. In the first writing assignment, I found a great deal of comfort. It was such a relief that I was able to write about a personal experience in the first person. After submitting my essay, I checked about every hour, anxiously awaiting the feedback. To my surprise, my rusty, old, writing skills had come through as exceptional. It made me feel great, and I was actually excited to progress through the class. The compare and contrast essay introduced a new challenge to me with its APA formatting and citations. I chose to write about a topic I felt familiar with and that I related to in order to stay confident in my writing. Finding sources for my essay that related to my topic came fairly easy. I felt that once I was able to get through the introduction, the rest of the paper would come together. The feedback I received from that essay was mostly positive with the majority of the corrections surrounding the APA citations. I made it my goal with the cause and effect essay to not only have an essay that had