Ever since English became my second language after Arabic, I realized that I will be struggling with it. My writing experience has always been a bad one no matter how beautiful the essay that I wrote sounds to me, because of some concepts in English writing that I either forget or fail to learn. My first writing experience was about two years ago when I had an assignment to write a persuasive essay, which turned out horrible after I spent hours writing it and trying to perfect it. My failure in writing a persuasive essay taught me that no matter how hard or long you spend on your essay; without the proper concept you would always fail at that assignment. Another failure experience in writing was last year when I had an assignment to write a
In reviewing the essay, there are many errors I noticed. Overall, your writing lacks focus in regards to ideas, grammar, and spelling. I am no expert in any of these areas, but my ability to produce a coherent essay is demonstrated by the fact that I am nearly done with college. The goal of my essay is to guide you towards a better way of writing based on my prior experiences. A good essay in my experience is one that has three major components: structure, depth, and voice.
When I was in fifth grade, I always believed I was not a writer. Math and science I understood decently but when it came to writing I was blank. For my fifth grade star test, I barely passed with a three on the writing portions and I always found telling stories on paper as dull and annoying in a way. I could never get what I was thinking into my paper, it always got lost somehow in the translation to thought and left me unsatisfied with what I wrote.
Since I born, I usually stay at my grandmother and my grandfather’s house. My grandparents helped my mom and dad to take care for me. I learned much from them. I grew very fast and started to learned reading. My grandmother was very patient to taught me. At first, I didn’t know nothing, and then I could reading because of her. She subscribed to buying a newspaper and magazine. She always reads it in the afternoon. She taught me to reading from newspaper and magazine. She also taught me to count.
The best writing I’ve ever produced is from last semester I wrote a paper for Sociology on how the movie “Selma” related to what we were learning in class. This is the best writing I’ve produced because I thought long and hard about what I was going to write and ended up making a 100 on the paper which I was very excited about. Another reason is that I’m not particularly exceptional at writing I struggle with what words to use and how to really make my writing mean something to the person reading it, and my teacher left me a comment saying how I had thought outside the box and done very well. When I’m writing, my only fear is that I could be using better words so that’s why after I write a paper I always like to continuously edit it until I’m satisfied. Challenges for me are thinking of what to write I guess you could say that I get writers block and I must take breaks and really think about what I want my paper to convey, but once I get an idea usually I’m and can come up with more ideas it’s just really that first few sentences in a paragraph that get me.
Part 1: My writing process itself is pretty simple. I do not follow the normal writing process. I start off by stringing random thoughts together. I then write a draft of my thoughts, and my draft usually ends up to be the size of my essay. Next, I do not revise too much, I just make sure that I stay on topic, and that everything makes sense. Finally, I edit and proofread my essay making sure that I did not miss anything in previous steps. I did not face many issues while writing, but there were a few. My first issue was using transitional words. I feel as if I am always searching for transition words. Another difficult part to writing my essay was vocabulary. Sometimes, I feel myself not using enough intricate words. Also, I have a problem with grammar. I do not always catch grammar mistakes while I am writing. I often have to read my passage three or more times just to get my grammar mostly correct. Although I try my hardest to get better, these are some of my downfalls. Now, I can reflect on the easiest part of my essay. The easiest part for me is finding something to write about. I try to pick topics that I know a lot about, and I try to pick topics that
Finding the motivation to sit down and write, or read has always been a challenge for me. The amount of books I have actually read all the through in the past few years of my life is slim to none. Really the only time I will read is for a school assignment, or if it’s required for a job. As I grow older I am starting to realize the importance of good reading, and writing skills. Having the ability to write what needs to be written, whether than just what you want to write can be difficult. I have always been the best at writing essays when there is a lot of freedom to write what you want. The times where I have to follow a particular structure is when coming up with original ideas can be a huge challenge.
With the winter semester ending, I have been reflecting about my writing English 101 class. In this Semester I studied and learned to write professionally after performing many tasks and assignments. Through basic writing errors, analytical moves, developing paragraphs, introduction and conclusion, I was able to learn to write correctly and even different from what I had written before. For example, in the old days I used to make a sentence by typing: I see it, or I say so, but now I can write without repeating the word I.
Of all the writing experience I gained through an AP heavy course load in high school, I look towards the experience I gained in one class more than anything else when it comes to the development of my reading and writing skills as a student and learner. This class was known locally in my high school as Honors Issues in Religions, taught by Mr. Burnett. The reason this class has held such an impact on me is because we were able to develop both reading and writing in a variety of ways, whether it was doing the nightly textbook reading, writing 4 essays in 90 minutes in what is known as a test in the class, the 15 page minimum research paper due at the end of the year, or even the book review done on a book of the student’s choice. All of these different aspects were able to help myself improve my skills as both a reader and writer.
Writing first was just a thing i did in school and for a grade. I knew that if i wanted to at least pass my english classes or any other classes that required writing, i had to write. Middle school writing was a impractical impression of what real writing was like. To write was easy: i know how to spell and write letters into words and words into sentences. In middle school, i just went along with the prototype the teacher had set up for us, but i didn't put much thought to it. When i got to high school, my english class hit me with a culture shock. I was now introduced to an outline instead of a prototype. The idea that i had to use my own words and way to formulate writing into an essay puzzled me. My first written english 1 essay mirrored
My first assignment as a college student was to write a self-evaluation paper explaining my experiences as a writer. It had been quite a while since I had written a paper. Almost
Throughout my years in writing and taking English courses I have always been a faulty writer and never have been strong in this aspect. Truthfully my writing was the same until I came to college and took English 104 with Professor Horjus. Horjus had taught me things about myself and my writing that I never gave my full attention too and explaining my thoughts. Professor Horjus had started off class on making us say things we could work on after turning in an essay and feel we lacked or felt very strongly about. Being able to talk about the lack of my writing skill or even the strong aspects in my writing let me see that everything teachers have taught me in the past has honestly not really helped. College English has defiantly shined a new light on writing for me.
My story with writing started when I was in a language school in California. That was about one year and a half ago. Like anyone else, I was struggling with a mountain of obstacles. I really thought about giving up, but I had to bite the bullet and move forward.
Writing is a tedious process which has a lot of challenges. When I was writing the paper, I faced a lot of problems. To begin with, getting started was a challenge to me. I had to think what was the purpose of writing this paper and come up with the ideas to present in the paper. Coming up with the introduction was somehow challenging. I had to ask myself, who will be my audience? Will my introduction catch the attention of my audience? Also, coming up with the thesis statement was a challenge. I had to think of a thesis which had to concur with what I was presenting in my the paper. Organization of my points was a challenge. I had to ensure that my paper had a flow of ideas that focused
My experiences in writing have been minimal. I have only learned the basics of writing, like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that. Since I have been taking college English, I can tell my writing has improved a lot. In the future, I hope to be able to improve tremendously at writing essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories so that I have very little to no errors with drafting and final products. I predict I will be a well rounded writer when I graduate from college.
I had two bad experiences that built an unsteady foundation for my enjoyment of writing. The first occurred in elementary school. Prior to sixth grade, I had always enjoyed reading poetry. However, that year, my teacher gave our class multiple poem writing assignments without clearly explaining how to write a poem. For each assignment I tried as hard as I could to write good poems, but after struggling to figure out how to properly write a poem, when I got my edited copy back from the teacher, all the things my teacher said I should "change" were essentially what made my poem unique to me. Ironically, my English teacher actually