Personal Narrative: Refining My Writing Skills

As a writer it is important to find new ways to improve, I realized in to this class just how weak my skills in punctuation are. After each paper I review comma and semicolon rules, yet I still struggle with these rules. They are simple rules, but when it comes to applying them I draw a blank. This is one skill that will take some extra work on my part. Even in this assignment I see mistakes that I do not know how to fix. However, this class has inspired me to continue to try and fix the punctuation errors so that my

At the moment, there are only 5 articles available for a 3-star rating, which isn't much. I was wondering, can I apply to any teams at this stage? Are there other ways to find additional work?

This is the 25 minute writing challenge, where I’m not allowed to use the backspace button on my keyboard or edit what I’m typing. There are probably going to be many typos in this small paper, but that’s apart of the challenge as I can't edit anything. I honestly have no clue what to write about, but atleast I’m 3 minutes in right now.

I learned a lot from this experience. I was familiar with all the kinds of writing, but I wasn't familiar with how to go about writing them. Through the assignments and tests I had to take, I know that it is important to know how to do different kinds of writing. As for grammar, I've become a lot careful with how I write. I've been checking every paragraph as write and this is something I'll continue to do. I've enjoyed writing since the eighth grade, but I've never felt like I've been improving. I've realized that I am much better than I thought I was. I'm glad I had this opportunity. I know it'll really help me in the long run.

While not a hugely transformative venture, I have found this semester to be a good vehicle for making my writing more accurate to its intended purpose. Prior to taking this class I did have some experience in professional writing for a few of the jobs I've had in the past, but this class organized those thoughts, gave them name, and pointed out where and how to pursue them. Its been an enlightening experience and provided me with tools I hope to use the rest of my life.

Since the first day of 8th grade I have dramatically improved my writing skills. I never worked hard on my papers since before 8th and I was never a good writer. Now I have come to a point where I am more productive and creative when I write and I worked harder than I used to.

From the beginning of the year, to now the end of first semester, I have learned and experienced a lot in the art of writing. If I could rate myself the level of skill I have accomplished this semester, I would give myself a 7 out of 10. I think I am at a 7 rating because of the type of writing I did this year, and how thoroughly I wrote my papers. I did have really detailed papers this year, and I loved some of the pieces I came up with, but I know I can always do better. I could always add more detail to my writings and come up with an amazing paper. From last year with my writings, I didn’t add so much detail or precision like I did this year with my pieces. I even now write out of school to expand more in my knowledge.

Doing the inventory exercise, I have learn that I have many style as a writer. According to inventory exercise I am a independent, pragmatic, verbal, rational, abstract style writer. The two ways I would like to improve myself as a writer by using more rational in verbal in my writing. Rational reply on facts and information, while verbal rely on language, usually written text, to acquire information. (successful college writing) By use more rational in verbal in some of the writing style in the exercise inventory, I am hoping that it will improve my writing skills.

I enrolled in this course because I wanted to strengthen my writing and editing skills which I will later be employing in the workplace once I have graduated from ASU. Technical editing is something that I have only limited experience with, and I hope to learn a great deal from this class. One thing I found interesting from the first three chapters of our textbook is the editor’s relationship with the audience who will eventually be reading the text. Normally one thinks that an editor’s primary relationship is with the writer of the written work rather than the audience. Now that I have read these chapters, I have a better understanding of the relationships that the editor has with both the writer and the audience. Another interesting thing

As I stated in the paragraph above, I have a lot of problems with my ability to write a collage paper. My number one weakness is with my thesis. My paper was about technology, how people use it today, and what devices we use. In my thesis I mentioned just cell phones, yet in the body paragraphs I discuss more devices. If I would write a good thesis the rest of my paper would come together much smoother, and it would help the order of topics in my body paragraphs. I write many small sentences; therefore, I need to make my transition from sentence to sentence flow together better. I have a problem with a bunch of little writing errors such as: punctuation, word choses, and minor miss-spelling. I will need to take more time to use some resources to check my little writing errors. I noticed

I feel that I have improved in my writing in tons of ways. One example is my commas. I used to put a comma here and there, even if it didn't belong there. When I started my sixth grade year I didn't know comma rules or some comma causers. Looking back at previous writings I can see how much I have improved, yet I'm still not perfect with writing. I still have a few problems with commas, but I'm much better than I was. There is still room for me to improve and I look forward to it.

Although my writing has made some good progress during the course of this semester, I still some things I need to learn in order to keep improving my writing. Grammar, writing in an active voice, and building my rewrite skills are three examples of skills I need to build upon to continue to improve me writing.

From start to finish I could say I’ve had a pretty big year for myself. In the summer of 2016 I couldn’t have told you the difference between a counterclaim and a body paragraph, however now I could explain everything in detail, start to finish, like it’s the back of my hand. Throughout my year in enriched english I have immensely made a huge change in how I write and the style I go about it, and I couldn’t be happier. With the help of a wonderful teacher, I was successfully able to watch myself grow in my writing skills throughout the course of the year.

An experience that is important to me is developing my reading and writing skills. After a few semesters at Cosumnes River College, I had to take my English assessment exam during the spring of 2014 where I believed I was good enough to assess in college level English, however after I finished and saw my results it turned out I assessed in remedial English for two semesters (summer and fall 2014) before taking college level English. Upset with my results, I had to change my habits in order to get the help in need improving my reading and writing skills.

Entering into a Composition class has proven that I know a lot less about writing than I had originally been aware of. With being four weeks into the class, I now realize I have already learned a lot of information about grammar, sentence structuring and transitions. When my first paper came back graded and did not meet my expectations, that was when I knew I had much more effort and research to put into my writing abilities. From there, I spent a lot of time researching; revising and building paper number two.