Writing Skills Essay

improvement" -Roy T. Bennet. Writing, along with many other skills, is something that takes practice. Over time, writer's learn and develop new strengths and weaknesses that help develop them to become the best writer they can be. Through the course of this class I have developed a better understanding of my writing strengths, weaknesses and strategized ways to improve future writing's. Over the past month, I have learned a variety of skills that I flourish in when it comes to writing.…

Personally I don’t like to read. My writing skills were around average. Then our first class summary on the book “The Slave Next Door” came in. I just remember taking a deep breath thinking “here goes nothing” after the first five minutes of simply focusing it’s as if my fingers had a mind of their own. I went wild on that paper. I was expecting a seventy on that paper but I ended up getting an eighty. I was surprised to learn that I had decent skills in writing. As time passed by and I attended…

Importance of Writing Skills in Tech-Related Fields” In “The Importance of Writing Skills in Tech-Related Fields”, Theresa MacPhail asserts that engineers should place more value and make more of an effort in improving their writing skills. There are many aspects in tech-related jobs that require a strong foundation in writing, yet there is a prevalent belief among engineers that writing is simply an extraneous skill. Theresa MacPhail attempts to dispel that way of thinking and prove that…

I have improved in many skills throughout this course but also have many skills that I have found that I need to improve more. The skills that I have developed throughout the units of the course are my reading and writing. The skills that I still need improving still are my communication skills and my viewing skills. Firstly I have improved my reading skills. Throughout the cosures, I have learned many things from reading like the before, during, and after reading skills. I have never used…

I 've always been truly awful at writing, but one person has miraculously made me appreciate it more, without even realizing that he has done so. In fact, I believe he still has yet to realize the profound effect that he has had on me concerning writing. I might even want to improve my writing skills, and just communication skills in general, because of this one person. Amazing, right? I can almost vividly remember the day in which my appreciation first appeared. It was nearing the end of my…

In general I consider myself a B student based on my reading, speaking and listening, and writing skills. In reading by itself I’m a B student, in speaking and listening I’m a D student, and finally in writing I’m a B student. In the future and other essays I plan on improving my skills with more practice and a little more time in these categories, Based on past essays, work and feedback I will be explaining my opinion on my grade. As a reader, I see myself as a B student rather than an A…

When I came into the English 101 class I expected to improve my writing skills. At first, I was a little worried about the amount of time I had to finish each essay. As I read the instructions for each of them I felt like they were too difficult and confusing. However towards the end of the trimester I began to understand how to compose the essays while having the right information. I chose to attach essay 3 and 4 because I felt like they showed how much I have improved and how the issues were…

This year’s English course has been more challenging than usual, I am generally accustomed to doing well enough without really trying or learning in English courses. It’s possible that I may have succeeded in improving in my writing skills so far this year; I better understand how to use sentence length, my claims are stronger than they were previously, and my grade appears to be improving. My OCE essays were completed in multiple drafts. From very rough, to slightly less rough, and then to…

Self-Reflection This GSW 1110 class has improved my writing skills in many different ways such as my techniques I use to get my paper to where it needs to be, how to research for credible sources, counterarguments and refutations, and how to present different tasks in different papers. In the beginning of this class, we had set goals to accomplish my the end of this course. My goals were to stay organized, making sure each topic I picked was interesting, manage my time better, making sure the…

usually see writing as one of the most vital skills to have as employee. Sixty-four out of one hundred and twenty decent sized organizations were surveyed, and these companies spent $3.1 billion or more attempting to improve their employees’ writing abilities. (Quible & Griffin, 2007). Possessing decent writing skills is important because you must use it in several different areas of any career. People in college, or even just graduating from college, do not possess the writing skills required…