Personal Essay

reminds me that all I have to do is just say whatever comes to mind and cross out the words that do not fit. However, how do you know what is the right and wrong words to use in your assignment. This revision process has not been my strength in my personal writing process. Despite this obstacle, I have developed techniques that help me revise and brain storm before I begin an assignment. When I am given a writing assignment the first thing I do is make sure that I understand what I am being…

During my time as a writer in middle school I improved my ability in many areas. I never liked writing essays in english, the only part I really liked about was my friends in that class. I would want to talk to them the whole period instead of doing my work but I couldn’t. Some of my best strengths as a writer in middle school are coming up with stories and being able to describe searnios well. Also one of my strengths are being able to come up with a claim, getting evidence from the text and…

objects or events that share the burden of sentiments. Placing an object instead of an feeling or idea can sometimes be the right way to help the writer rediscover things he/she didn’t know about their life or even help the reader interact with the essay by engaging them into finding the meaning behind the object. In the story “Swerve” by Brenda Miller, the narrator tells the story of…

my writing, editing, problem solving, organization, comprehension, and communication skills as an English 20-1 student have improved. Some of the challenges that I’ve faced as a writer were starting an essay, trying to incorporate academic vocabulary, and putting details into my work. The essay question we received for Macbeth was extremely challenging. After mulling over the question and still not understanding what it was asking, I solved my problem by dissecting it into pieces and determining…

Final portfolio I didn’t score high enough in my SAT exam so I was put in this class automatically; quickly after this course began I could already see an improvement in my writing. Being brought up in Ireland I knew that the transition between English there and English in America would have been a lot different. The way our education system works is a lot different from here meaning that I haven’t actually studied any form of English in the past three years, I knew this semester would be a…

class was beneficial to me in several ways. I learned several writing techniques that helped improve my writing. I learned how to identify rhetorical contexts (audiences and purposes), and I explored various strategies (summarizing, writing from personal experience, analyzing, and evaluating texts.) During the guided research project, I also learned what an annotated…

In the first paragraph of essay A, there was a meaningful introduction to the quote that was later used. Even before reading the quote, I already had an idea on what the quote was about and how it was used as evidence for the argument. I thought that there should have been a better transition from the writer’s voice to the author’s voice because it felt like there was a sense of urgency when the writer said, “He later states that...”. The writer should have included more information before the…

This effort is best shown in my first revised essay, a film criticism entitled “The Work-Life Dichotomy in Lucy Campbell’s The Pig Child.” The focus will be on the evolution of the organization of ideas in the fourth paragraph of the…

Through the past semester, I believe my writing has strengthened in skill and individual direction. In a similar manner, as a college freshman learns independence during their first year on campus by living away from home with less guidance, so has my writing skills. Whereas, in high school, our teachers provided us with a uniformed writing prompt with a clear argument or thesis. This semester has provided me with the skill in writing towards a specific audience with a clear position. Through…

through the precise use of words. Also, essays are involved in almost every course, so loving the most commonly execrated part of school gives me an advantage. Vocabulary says a lot about a person, and all of the endless flash cards i have made for english tests have contributed towards my overall knowledge. Communication becomes more advanced and the stronger your terminology the further you will go into the social hierarchy. There is an antique feel to personal letters and written emotion,…