Creative nonfiction

Bechdel choose to start her memoir in this fashion because it thoroughly explains how she utilizes writing as an escape her reoccurring thoughts. Some may think that writing can only be used to educate or entertain people, Writing can also be used to solidify uncertain feeling or emotions by logging events from external life and internal life and evaluating one’s mental state by tracking “changes [and] trac[ing] moods developing” (Frame 3, 89). A student, Katelyn Gemmel concurs “that writing is…

Looking back at my high school English courses, I have reminisced on some of the challenges I have encountered. I took honors English each year with the exception of my junior year where I took on the challenge of taking AP Composition and Language. During my AP class we focused on writing argumentative essays and two other types of writing. The other three years, we wrote one to two page essays on a reflection of novels that we read during the year. If we met the basic criteria (introduction,…

As I sit here trying to compose this essay, I reflect back to my first day of school in America. I remember exactly how it feels not knowing how to even compose a short paragraph to introduce myself to the whole class. I struggle to develop my listening, speaking and especially writing in English. Writing is something that has always been a struggle in my life. With English being my second language, I always have a difficult time executing my ideas and wordings. As I continue to expand my…

My ability to write and understand myself as a writer has changed because of the many subjects that were talked about in class. Such as, grammar to ensure that sentences are effective and using grammatical structures in your essay. Make sure to have paragraphs relate to your thesis statement. Have good punctuation in your essay like commas, exclamation points, and periods at the end of each sentence. I didn’t pass this class the very first time I took it, so I hope maybe this time around, it was…

Although, I have been challenged with multitudinous task during my English class this year, I have gathered a great deal of knowledge on many key attributes that will help me throughout my career; ranging anywhere from how to properly annotate, to depicting archetypes, and to building a cogent, convincing debate. During this half semester English class I have become much more knowledgeable than I ever were before. Even though, many people believe that what they encountered in their english class…

Each of us has their own writing style. Some work best with music in the background, and some work best in silence. Others like to organize their ideas, and others find that jotting all of their ideas down on paper is a better method of writing. For me, writing an essay is a time consuming process. First, I like to write one sentence at a time, and then go back and revise it. I find that starting off with one sentence and going back to revise it helps with keeping the flow of the paragraph. Next…

My approach as a writer is that I must ponder over what I should write about and how it should be written before I go on to start the essay. I am perceived to be a board walker: I have a simple task and the ability necessary to do it, but I am frozen at the start line thinking of what to do until I look back and realize a fire started on the building supporting the end of the board meaning it is time to move. The assignment asks that I analyze my growth as a critical writer and thinker, but I…

When I first signed up for English Comp. I did not realize the high standards my writing would be put up against. The different types of essays we were taught to write really helped me grow as a writer I believe. With the ad analysis, comparative essay, narrative essay, and the argumentative essay I learned many new and different skills. The first essay we wrote was the ad analysis. For this essay we did five paragraphs analyzing an ad we had to find ourselves. After scanning through multiple…

Project 2 Toni Morrison, bell hooks, and James Baldwin are all writers, professionals crafting fully realized people living in black and white, and poetically weave humor and personal tragedy into their essays about injustice. In the past, I always avoided calling myself a writer because I simply could not compare with them or their contemporaries. Throughout the years, I realized that forbidding myself from using that title was not a humble act, but instead, limiting myself from strengthening…

Are you willing to try new things and are up for rigorous challenges? A future student should take this Dual Enrollment English course because it definitely helps challenge you and make you a better writer. Compared to my previous years of being in a variety of academic english courses, I have learned so much during this English 112 course. I have grown so much as a writer during this course. I have recently read one of the very first papers that I had written at the start of the school year.…