Essay about What I Have Learned in My English Writing Class

As the semester approaches a conclusion, I have discovered for myself that I happen to exhibit not simply on how I have endured this semester, but then again also what I have gained in knowledge of. In the past four months, I would consider that I obtain an accomplishment of achievement in improving my writing techniques. The most important principle that I have discovered so far ensues on how to become an improved writer. With each writing assignment, I learned additional methods and skills, which tweaked my capabilities to develop my thoughts in detail on paper, to write clearly, and to organize my essays efficiently. In previous years, I would frequently catch myself irritated believing I had terrible writer’s block standing in my path of writing an organized essay. This created a feeling as if I could not distinguish how to write properly and the reasoning behind my hatred for writing. During high school, I learned the Modern Language Association (MLA) formats for bibliographies and parenthetical citations, consequently at the beginning of the fall semester, I knew only this format. I was able to learned the correct format for the American Psychological Association (APA) style when doing each assignment at hand.

All through this course, I have taken in various systems for composing different sorts of essays. This class has truly enhanced my written work abilities; I can now effectively think of enough words, which was a major issue for me before this class. I couldn't have done these without the inside and out rules gave all through this class from the instructor's assignments and lecture notes.

An essay is a great way to express your knowledge in a topic and also learn new skills involving reading and writing. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing. To turn those weaknesses into strengths, I have practiced my writing and took the advice given by my peers and professor. Throughout this course, I have overcome many of my writing weaknesses such as citations, thesis statements, and transitions. Although there are still skills to improve upon, I have improved these skills by taking my time with each essay, proofreading them thoroughly, and reflecting on my work when finished.

Coming into this class at the beginning of the semester, I expected a lot of writing but not so many other extra assignments. My main target was improving the quality of my introduction and conclusion paragraphs in my essays. I learned a few new ways of arranging introduction and conclusion both in class and at the Writing Resource Center.

I have never been an extremely strong writer, so the thought of writting college level essays frightend me. I received good grades on all my essays in high school because I put in 110% when only 100% was needed. I would stay after school and talk to my teacher or spend my lunch and before school in the tutoring center. I never put that much effort into any of my other classes. My sister who is a senior at Arizona State University would always tell me how you do not get the one on one help you get in high school in college. Therefore, my expectation for the class' dificulty level was high. I believed there would be multiple ten page essays that we would be given a relatively short amount of time to finish. Despite how terrifying that was to

I have truly enjoyed this semester in Mrs. Jones’ English 1105 class. This is my second time having her as an instructor and over the past two semester she had helped me immensely in sharpening my writing skills. During this semester we wrote serval different essays, each focusing on different aspects of English and Writing. The first essay of this class was one that was in MLA format while I became comfortable with MLA in my English 1101 course this was a good refresher on it, in this essay we also learned about visual analyses. Essay number two was about memes and fallacies and this was our first essay in APA format. On our third and final essay we had more free range on the topic and style of our paper. Each of these essay helped me improve

Reading and writing go hand-in-hand. Those who learn to write, write so someone will eventually read it. Those who learn to read, learn to write through reading other people’s work. But, one must first learn how to do one of the following to succeed in both. So, how does one learn to write? The best, most concise, writers develop from avid readers.

Throughout this semester, this class has taught me many things. I have learned the process of drafting and revising, how to structure my essays, how to write to a specific audience, how to make a thesis, and how to use outside resources. In the three essays I chose to put in my portfolio, I believe I have support to back up the fact that I have learned these things.

I started the semester not knowing how I would adjust going from a high school writing class to a college level writing class. I felt my writing was above average, but writing was never one of my strong suits. (but was not one of my strong suits.) I had no way of knowing if my writing competency could hold up to college academic standards. I took Expository Writing with Professor James Brady. Over the semester, multiple learning objectives were learned through my essays. These learning objectives were subject matter knowledge, writing process knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, genre knowledge, and meta-cognition.

Throughout this semester, there were many obstacles that I had to face regarding the different assignments assigned. However, I was able to effectively complete all of these tasks to the best of my ability regardless of the amount and specific requirements each one possessed. I also managed to gain a better understanding of the certain processes required to create successful essays. I realized that it was extremely important to stay on task, manage my time wisely, and organize my information in a way that would make the writing process easier. This realization and understanding ultimately allowed me to easily take on more extensive assignments, such as the Rhetorical Advocacy Project.

Throughout a student’s life he will have to write numerous numbers of essays and during that time he will have to overcome a lot of hurdles to accomplish writing an excellent essay. Majority of students hate writing essays because it requires serious intellectual thought and pulling together of ideas. A lot of students will be irritated and have absolutely no interest in creating an essay due to them having no idea on how to start. I 'm sure things would be easier for students if he had a guideline or pathway built for them on how to create an essay. With some experience and research I have concluded the five important things to remember in writing an outstanding academic essay.

Before I embarked on taking English 121, writing was something that I thought I knew well. In high school I had to write a two page essay everyday Monday to Thursday and a one page essay on Friday. The essay topics could be on anything I wanted, but at the end of the school week I would have written a total of 9 pages and 36 pages in a month. Now they were not the most elaborate essays, but they had to have an introduction, body, conclusion, and be revised and edited before I turned it in. I am familiar with writing, but the topics in this class taught me a lot more about writing than I ever learned before. My fears going into this class was that I was not going to be able to understand the material being taught, and anything I wrote

Before taking UWP1, I felt confident in my ability to write an essay; however I struggled with in-class essays because of the limited amount of time to draft, write, and edit. As a sophomore, I have experience writing academic essays for UC Davis classes. I have come accustomed to in-class essays and short-answer paragraphs in lieu of the typical multiple-choice test. With the time limit on an in-class essay, I always felt rushed, and by the time I reached the conclusion I felt I was only repeating myself. By taking this course, I hoped to better prepare for these types of tests by fixing some of my common writing errors and growing more as a writer. After several edits and revisions of my three portfolio essays, I am proud of what I have accomplished in this portfolio. I still have a long way to go, in terms of academic schooling and improving my writing, but I believe this course has prepared me for my other classes and later on in my professional life. Through these three papers, I learned the process of writing an essay and some tips that I can apply to any essay I write in the future.

For many high school students, the academic essay is an unforgiving monster that terrorizes their campus, a nightmarish beast that can rip the heart out of G.P.A.'s and dash all hopes for college admission. Yet, others tame this friend with ease, bending its cruel will to theirs as if it was nothing, as if they possessed a secret weapon. Well, guess what? They do! Successful essayists succeed because they are armed with the exact knowledge of what an essay is and how it is made; they know an essay is an organized group of paragraphs that strongly assert and vividly support a central idea. Further, they know the organization of an academic essay is as easy as one, two, three: the introduction, the body,

Although I only took this class because it was a requirement, I am glad I took it. This class has helped me better various parts of my writing and what is needed to successfully write an essay. After reading the first chapter of “Writing for success,” the strategies given have shown me some starter points and new ways of approach, to properly prepare for my essay. The chapter talked how I can plan my time better to read lengthy reading materials, and how to most efficiently organize my notes, so I have a less difficult time to properly organize my essay. With the help of this chapter I