Writing has always been a challenge for me - it 's never been my strong suit. As I sit down in the Miller Learning Center right now, I struggle with putting my thoughts onto paper. When tasked with writing a paper in high school, I would spend hours staring at a computer - only to have a few short, badly structured, paragraphs when I got up from my chair. Although I enrolled in advanced writing and literature courses such as AP Literature and AP Language, I found that these classes did not help me to develop my writing skills. These classes were black and white and restrained any ounce of creativity. In addition, these classes were also concerned more with reading the works of literature than actually teaching the class how to write a literary
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A literary analysis essay does not merely summarize the plots of the story; it goes beyond a superficial reading of the piece of writing and requires the writer to examine the literature more deeply in order to understand the meaning behind it. Before this English 1102, I would simply summarize the work of literature with only about one sentence of analysis. Nevertheless, I quickly learned that this technique was inadequate and poor. The documents in my portfolio demonstrate my transition from an average writer that exercises few analytical statements to a great writer with an in-depth literary analysis. On my second paper, "The Woman in the Yellow Wallpaper: Forced into Madness by Society", I received an 88. Professor Dixon explained his reasoning for the grade. He said that while the paper was on an A+ level due to the writing itself and the excellent consideration of the context, I needed to closely look at the text and examine the details of the story. I grasped his helpful advice and vowed that I would employ more literary analysis on the next paper and get an A. As a wrote and re-wrote my third paper, "Technology stands for social isolation", I made sure that I included a substantial amount of analysis. I was ecstatic to receive a 91 on this …show more content…
It is important to effective writing because it supplies readers with the framework to help them fulfill their expectations for the text. A well-organized portion of writing is easy for the reader to follow. In high school, I did not outline my ideas before writing an essay; I would attempt to write a perfect essay in one try. I would look from the blank Word document to the essay prompt. Then, look from the essay prompt back to the blank Word document nervously. This made writing a very intimidating and difficult concept to me. However, Professor Dixon stressed the importance of outlining and brainstorming. An outline will show what the thesis of the essay is, what the main idea of each body paragraph is, and the evidence that will be provided in each paragraph to support the main points. As I started to employ this technique as a part of my writing process, I began to actually like
A literary analysis essay does not merely summarize the plots of the story; it goes beyond a superficial reading of the piece of writing and requires the writer to examine the literature more deeply in order to understand the meaning behind it. Before this English 1102, I would simply summarize the work of literature with only about one sentence of analysis. Nevertheless, I quickly learned that this technique was inadequate and poor. The documents in my portfolio demonstrate my transition from an average writer that exercises few analytical statements to a great writer with an in-depth literary analysis. On my second paper, "The Woman in the Yellow Wallpaper: Forced into Madness by Society", I received an 88. Professor Dixon explained his reasoning for the grade. He said that while the paper was on an A+ level due to the writing itself and the excellent consideration of the context, I needed to closely look at the text and examine the details of the story. I grasped his helpful advice and vowed that I would employ more literary analysis on the next paper and get an A. As a wrote and re-wrote my third paper, "Technology stands for social isolation", I made sure that I included a substantial amount of analysis. I was ecstatic to receive a 91 on this …show more content…
It is important to effective writing because it supplies readers with the framework to help them fulfill their expectations for the text. A well-organized portion of writing is easy for the reader to follow. In high school, I did not outline my ideas before writing an essay; I would attempt to write a perfect essay in one try. I would look from the blank Word document to the essay prompt. Then, look from the essay prompt back to the blank Word document nervously. This made writing a very intimidating and difficult concept to me. However, Professor Dixon stressed the importance of outlining and brainstorming. An outline will show what the thesis of the essay is, what the main idea of each body paragraph is, and the evidence that will be provided in each paragraph to support the main points. As I started to employ this technique as a part of my writing process, I began to actually like