Composition studies

I needed to learn to improve my writing, reading, and thinking skills. I didn’t think that college composition was going to be difficult, because in high school English was easy. I thought I was going to walk out the class at the end of the semester with an easy A. However, ever since that first day of class. My mind was forever changed. My mind was changed, because being in this college composition class I was face with some challenges. I also learned a lot about myself as a student in this…

when assigned a topic. I have to find some source of inspiration for the topic or my writing becomes flat and boring. When painting, I create a rough draft of what I plan to paint. This sketch is often a separate page that is full of scribbles and studies of what I plan to draw, similar to creating an organizational diagram of my writing ideas and picking out what I plan to write about. More often than not, when I am making art, it…

Before the start of the school year I was completely stressed out due to the idea that I was going taking two college level classes. All I ever hear about college is that it’s full of sleepless nights and ramen noodle diets. I was initially expecting this year to be physically and emotionally draining, but as I began to initiate myself into the dual credit program, I found it to be less stressful than I had originally expected. This semester was full of learning experiences. My writing style,…

Over the first several weeks of school I have had the rewarding experience of being involved with the fast-track English 111 class provided by my high school and local community college. I have gained experience in managing deadlines, juggling prompts, meeting various criteria, and learning what it truly is that makes writing both correct and brilliant. Coming into this class, I truly lacked a general understanding of proper writing. I wasn’t able to write in MLA format, let alone understand…

Throughout the semester I have learned many things while in English 102 like for instance how to construct an argument, how to properly cite sources and develop a personal stance on certain topics that I am passionate about. While in this class I have developed my own “freestyle” type of writing, because many of the units were very opinionated it allowed me to actually voice my position on things that I felt needed attention drawn to. I believe that my writing skills have improved as far as me…

My warm up exercises consisted of listening to music for 10 minutes and taking a break every 20 minutes for 5 minutes to think to give myself a time to relax and to think about what I wrote. To me those small breaks helped a lot to improve my creative writing process. Specifically, I was able to write more productively and edit my work faster. What your writing intention was for this session: For me, the drama was the hardest draft to write. Therefore, it was the last draft that I wanted to…

possible. It was only recently that I began to care specifically about the rules that applied to my essays. I've given more thought to the different aspects bundled with the writing process. This English course has provided the tools to aid my English composition. Consequently, I find myself frequently checking for correct sentence structure, good transitional phrases, and use of vibrant…

I want to use these skills to advance to the first Composition class, use what I learn for my major, and use what I learn for my future career. I feel like this class is preparing me very successfully for Composition one. When I was still in high-school, I used to think that English was one of my best subjects but there was many more things that I needed to learn. I enjoyed going to…

Writing used to be so simple. In elementary school, writing was the easiest thing. It all began with the basics, identifying alphabet letters and their sounds, learning that letters and their sounds go together to form words, and writing our names. Some examples include learning how to cross T’s and dot I’s, or even forming simple sentences such as, the cat ran. In middle and high school, those simple sentences became complex sentences. In college, those complex sentences now become…

Throughout English Composition 1, I have learned several crucial writing skills. Writing skills that will benefit me in other classes, outside of school, and during my future college years. Not only will these benefit my overall writing and making it flow better, it will all in all make more sense to the readers. Even though I learned many skills and objectives during this semester, four skills really stood out to me. Cohesion, comma usage, the use of satire, and how to write a definitional…