Personal Narrative: My Improvement In My Writing

Writing is only improved by practicing and having errors. In the beginning of the semester my writing was not as academically as it should had been, based on the educational level that college writing requires. My grammar was mostly what affected my development as a writer. Most of my grammar grades in the beginning were about from twenty or thirty point out of fifty. My hopes for passing this class weren’t as strong as they were further in the semester. Obviously I was very insecure as college student, whose native language isn’t English, to progress in this English 101A course. My desire to improve in this course, and the advice from my professor helped me improve in various aspects of my writing. Grammar, word order, and prepositional phrasing, …show more content…
This is more of a personal problem when I write because my native language is Spanish. Therefore, the word order in my native langue is completely the adverse in English. In the beginning, my essays were understandable, but they were grammatically wrong written. The word order made them very difficult to be approved for the writing level the course of English 101A requires. The only way that I was able to overcome this obstacle was reading. I began reading newspapers, articles online, Facebook, or any other source where provided me something academically to read. Reading these articles written by Native American writers, helped me improved my writing because I was more familiarized with the correct word order for proper writing. After several weeks constantly reading, I became comfortable to read articles and learn proper grammar just for fun. Now, I enjoy reading and finding mistakes that I’m able to correct without any help. In my opinion, reading is the best way to improve writing …show more content…
As a bilingual student, juggling with “in”, “on”, “to”, “for”, “of”, “the”, and many other prepositions when writing, can be very frustrating. My mistakes in the beginning of my essays were heavily everywhere and I couldn’t find a way to improve the aspect of my writing. I spent hours trying to correct these errors, but somehow I would still let some errors get away, making my grammar grades not so great. Frustrated and disappointed of my grades I decided to look for a virtual helper. I found this marvelous and self-learning website called Paper Rater. This grammar corrector is an amazing tool to improve writing because it does not fix your essays; instead it gives you suggestions with academic and reasonable explanation. Using this website I was able to teach my self how to use preposition correctly in my essays, allowing me to obtain better