My Philosophy Of Writing

How can I become a better writer? Throughout my writing experiences, I have learned I have many weaknesses along with strengths. My experiences with writing has not always been the best, but over time, with lots of practice and instructions from my instructors, I can proudly say that I have gained a better understanding on the layout of essays and papers. As well as understanding how to write correctly my goal as a writer is to learn how to overcome my weaknesses and use my strengths to my highest ability. I have many strengths, weaknesses and goals that I plan to achieve and overcome in my college career.

My attitude towards writing is very unfavorable. I just don’t enjoy it at all. It’s a very tedious task when you factor in all of the revision steps that it takes to produce a quality essay. Writing requires a long amount of time spent planning and preparing that is not for impatient people like myself. However, I believe that with a little bit of some confidence and patience, I could learn to enjoy myself when I write. I think it’s a great outlet for some but just hasn’t ever really been something that made me feel relaxed or stress-free. Writing just clouds my head with confusion and anxiety. I guess I can blame this on the fact that all my previous experiences writing has been academic and in a time-restricted environment. However, I am excited to see how my impression of writing changes throughout my college career now that I am not confined to a forty-minute window.

One of the things I feel very strongly about is writing. I like how you can say whatever you want knowing that it is your opinion. You have freedom over what you say. Some things that are written could be seen as controversial, but in the scheme of things, most of what is said is okay because at the end of the day you have the right to freedom of speech. Personally writing is an escape from life, whether it is full of pain, sadness, chaos, or just plain boredom. A few years ago my imagination was bright. It held quite a bit of good ideas, but somewhere along the way to now I lost most of that ability to think of the most random plot lines or ideas to write about. My creativity slowly burned out, kind of like a candle. Then one morning not too

So, when I ask myself what kind of writer I am, the only answer I come up with is “not a very good one.” As far as me being able to write a college essay, I am fairly certain I am not at the same level as my fellow classmates. That being said, I hope that by the end of this term I don’t feel so intimidated by writing assignments. If there’s one thing I can say about myself as a writer,

Writing has never been easy for me. When it comes to writing, my level of confidence is low. Being bilingual has its ups and downs; it is a gift, but sometimes it is hard for me to articulate exactly what I mean in English. In the past, I wrote essays because they were a requirement, but I did not enjoy it. When I had to write my first university-level essay, I was very nervous because I thought my writing was not good enough. When I finished writing that paper, I felt a sense of accomplishment just from completing it. My perspective changed once I gained a little courage, and I felt ready to practice my writing and eventually grow as a writer.

With this being my first year in college I expect my skills and relationship with writing to improve drastically this semester. Along with improving my skills I hope to accomplish my goals of being more confident in my writing because I tend to second guess myself. Also I have a habit of worrying that my words wont come out the way I would like them to. I hope to

Hi Aimee- I like that your personal philosophy for academic advising has a clear focus on student success. I like that you stated bringing the student out of their comfort zone. You do that by using coaching techniques.

Since success begins with planning, I’ll start there. In my previous English classes, teachers encouraged my ability to “create” thoughtful essays, and focused more on the elements of voice and less on the structure of writing. This encouragement allowed my perception of my writing ability to be inflated as I entered college. Perhaps you too see yourself as a good writer. Don’t let this perception keep you from embracing the opportunity to increase your writing ability. The fallacy of my perception that I had already arrived as a writer was brought home when I received a fifty-nine on my second essay! Following my normal writing process, I began writing every good idea that presented itself without any forethought to planning or

I’m going to be completely honest I do not enjoy writing at all, in my opinion I think it is very boring and tedious work but I have found that somehow I always do somewhat good on essays.

I've always enjoyed writing, even as a child. Anytime I'd receive back an assignment with a good score on it, I would feel really proud of myself. Writing was and always has been my favorite thing to do. Although I'd struggle at times, I strove to get better. With my writing today, I would like to improve everything. From my grammar, expanding my vocabulary, having good voice, etc. I believe that as a writer, there is so much to learn and many ways in which to write. Practice makes perfect, and that may be true. I want to push myself and continue writing because that may be the only way in which I'll be able to discover my fullest

Learning to be a good writer has been a journey to me. There are a lot of moments where I struggled a lot with writing. My English writing journey starts four years ago when I come to the United States of America for the first time with only knowing accountable words in English. I often spend countless hours thinking of what I should write, following the correct style of writing, using appropriate vocabulary, and understandable and correct grammar sentences. With a lot of practice and guidance starting from high school to now in my second year in college, I was able to improve my writing skills and become a better English writer as possible as I can. However, that was not an easy journey it takes me a lot of exploring in writing essays, motivating myself to write well, practicing a lot in all writing aspect, and finally learning from each feedback I get on my writing.

Expressing one’s inner thoughts, feelings, and opinions to the world can be challenging, to say the least. When one chooses to do so, he or she renders himself or herself vulnerable to the—often critical—response of others. With that in mind, it is not difficult to understand why so many people are not comfortable with sharing any portion of their mind with the world: It is a liability to that individual. Moreover, even when one does wish to do so, a second complication arises; that person must decide in what manner he or she wishes to convey his or her views. This can become a major dilemma as well because different mediums can yield drastically different results and a poor choice can easily result in an utter debacle. Nevertheless, people must manage to do so because it is difficult to imagine a life without expression as even

To begin with, writing is a lot of fun and creative. During my first year of middle school, I learned how to write in a paragraph format. As my middle school year progressed, my English class did not use writing very much, so my learning about writing in a paragraph format did not follow along with me to high school. When I got to the tenth grade, I was starting to enjoy my tenth grade year until I discovered that I was put into an intensive reading class. When I was put into that reading class, my learning in reading and English got difficult. I felt happy during my senior year because I was not writing as much essays as I did the year before. When I got to college and took an Essential Writing II during my Fall term in 2014, I felt excited because I was refreshing my memory of how to write a paragraph,

Principle 1 Keeping your writing simple • Simple presentation and easy to understand language • Be concise and avoid redundant phrases • Avoid passive voice • We aware of using nominalisation or appropriate word choice • Avoid using pronouns (Grellier & Goerke, 2014) After seeking feedback from writer’s diet (http://writersdiet.com/test.php), I figured out the lean scoring on my pronoun use. The pronoun refers to the term that stands for nouns such as ‘she’ or ‘he’ (Grellier & Goerke, 2014). Also, in seeking feedback from writer’s diet demonstrated that I have a satisfactory level of using simple and direct language.

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.