Reflection
Coming into college as a freshman, I had a lot of different thoughts running through my head. When it comes to writing, I find myself struggling the most in that department. I was never really a strong writer and always had trouble while writing papers. I was very nervous coming to college because I knew we would be writing a lot of papers. Once I found out I had to take a College Writing course, I knew I was going to face some obstacles. But, I was definitely hoping that I would come out of this class as a stronger and more confident writer. I do believe that my writing did get better because of this class.
Before this class I was a very timid writer. I always wrote short and to the point because I didn’t want to have too much or have something in my paper that was wrong. I wanted to make sure that every thing was answered in the paper that needed to be in there. I mostly based my paper on facts and never really used my own opinion because I didn’t know if my teacher would agree. But with this class, I found out that it’s good to state your opinion, wrong or right, because someone might actually agree with you. Our opinions matter and we should always say our viewpoint because it’ll help your topic of discussion in your paper. Now, I am able to write more freely and less scared. Writing scared will not help you while writing a paper. It can make your paper weak and not very interesting because you are so focused that you will mess up or write something wrong.
Throughout this semester, I was able to learn a lot about writing. In the beginning of the semester, I knew I would have a big wake up call in this class. This class was going to help me though and only prepare me for the future. What I’ve learned about myself as a writer is that I can write when I put all of my focus into it. At times, I would find myself losing focus while writing a paper and the distractions would just lead me to poor writing. But, when I put all my thought and focus into my papers, I found them more easy and my writing was progressively getting better.
With all the different papers we had to write over the course of this semester, I found myself able to write better and better each paper we were giving. Being able to explore the topics and find facts and statistics, made it easier while writing the paper. For my research paper, looking up all the information before hand made it extremely simpler for me when I started my paper. I was more aware of my topic and since I knew so much about it, the writing part was easy for me. Before this class, I would always search the information while writing the paper. This would take my focus off the paper at times and just make it longer for me to write. Now I’m definitely going to get all of my information before writing my future papers.
I am very thankful that we had to take this class. I probably wouldn’t have taken it if we weren’t supposed to. Like I said before, I am not a very good writer and lack in confidence when it comes to writing. But taking this class helped me immensely in all the ways that I struggled with writing. I am not saying I am a great writer now, but I am definitely a better one. I am definitely going to take all the skills and writing techniques I learned over this course and use them for my future writing classes.
Before this class I was a very timid writer. I always wrote short and to the point because I didn’t want to have too much or have something in my paper that was wrong. I wanted to make sure that every thing was answered in the paper that needed to be in there. I mostly based my paper on facts and never really used my own opinion because I didn’t know if my teacher would agree. But with this class, I found out that it’s good to state your opinion, wrong or right, because someone might actually agree with you. Our opinions matter and we should always say our viewpoint because it’ll help your topic of discussion in your paper. Now, I am able to write more freely and less scared. Writing scared will not help you while writing a paper. It can make your paper weak and not very interesting because you are so focused that you will mess up or write something wrong.
Throughout this semester, I was able to learn a lot about writing. In the beginning of the semester, I knew I would have a big wake up call in this class. This class was going to help me though and only prepare me for the future. What I’ve learned about myself as a writer is that I can write when I put all of my focus into it. At times, I would find myself losing focus while writing a paper and the distractions would just lead me to poor writing. But, when I put all my thought and focus into my papers, I found them more easy and my writing was progressively getting better.
With all the different papers we had to write over the course of this semester, I found myself able to write better and better each paper we were giving. Being able to explore the topics and find facts and statistics, made it easier while writing the paper. For my research paper, looking up all the information before hand made it extremely simpler for me when I started my paper. I was more aware of my topic and since I knew so much about it, the writing part was easy for me. Before this class, I would always search the information while writing the paper. This would take my focus off the paper at times and just make it longer for me to write. Now I’m definitely going to get all of my information before writing my future papers.
I am very thankful that we had to take this class. I probably wouldn’t have taken it if we weren’t supposed to. Like I said before, I am not a very good writer and lack in confidence when it comes to writing. But taking this class helped me immensely in all the ways that I struggled with writing. I am not saying I am a great writer now, but I am definitely a better one. I am definitely going to take all the skills and writing techniques I learned over this course and use them for my future writing classes.