Improving My Writing Skills

Currently, I am crossing a huge bridge from high school writing to college writing. Which means there is going to be plenty of room for my writing skills to progress in various ways. After putting thought into where my weaknesses may be in my writing I have arrived to a conclusion of 5 personal goals to improve my essays. My 5 goals will be the pillars that keep my bridge up and from collapsing, by the use of these 5 goals I will easily transition from high school writing to college writing.

Essays have always seemed like just another assignment. Rarely did I like doing them and most of the time I did not like the prompt. Essays were straight forward and very dull. You were given a question about something in class and told to write about it. So far college English has been different. The class takes an abstract point of attack. There is still a prompt but is about more complex and controversial issues. This would have to make me think critically and in an unorthodox manner. This, however, was not my main worry. At the beginning of the year I had two major concerns going into a college level English class. Grammar and mechanics, those are the two words that have always been brought up in parent-teacher conferences or written in red ink on my paper. I was not very worried about making a thesis or analyzing quotes. One thing I rarely did in high school was revision. It was either last minute or I thought the essay was already good enough. The first essay was proof of a lack of revisions. The prompt asked us to take our rough draft, revise it, than make more revisions to that paper so that it can become your final copy. I did not make an attempt to do a revised copy. I did however revise my first draft and went straight the final essay. During this process my analyzing could always be more in depth (clarity was also an issue through out primary and secondary education). Although receiving a slightly better grade on my first paper, it had more mistakes and had less

This semester in English 1020, my writing skills have greatly improved. I used to struggle writing papers that were more than a couple pages long. Now I have learned to incorporate more information that will help lengthen my papers. My papers used to be very short, just simple five paragraph essays. I feel more comfortable now stepping away from the five paragraph format and making the paper my own.

To support and demonstrate spelling skills, a teaching assistant may be involved in whole class,

As an eager learner, I often took classes that I felt would challenge me and my writing style. After taking many English courses like History of the English language and English Grammar, I wanted to learn another style of writing, which led me to journalism. The journalism program made me focus on developing my writing and researching skills to deliver reliable information. In the program we learned by doing and were expected to report both on and off campus. I was required to take an Editing course where we learned about copy editing, proofreading and basic editorial skills. In the class we would analyze articles for accuracy, libel, and tightening.

Georgia is known for good home cooking meals, I love been able to pass the field to see crops growing. There's nothing like county living. However, in order to refine my writing abilities I will continuous practice writing as well as reading a lot writing I feel that this will definitely improve my writing skill. Yes, this actually my first experience writing a analytical paper.

My writing skills have never been satisfactory. I haven’t had a lot of experiences requiring me to write outside of my own personal writing. Recently my writing skills have increased when I started attending Central Ohio Technical College, January 2017. I enrolled to obtain my Registered Nursing for Nursing Technology. My first semester there I took Integrated Reading and Writing, and I learned a lot. My knowledge for writing grew tremendously. I would now consider myself a adequate writer.

I am not by any means: Stephen King, J.K Rowling, Shakespeare, or even Dr. Seuss. It would take years of dedicated time and practice to even be considered for any literature achievement prize. Yet, I fully intend to flourish my writing skills by setting up goals, furthering my knowledge in writing, and evolving my already known skills. I will use the advice of not only my peers and instructors, but of my friends and family as well. By having all these options to review my writings, they will help point out the mistake I might have missed while I was self-assessing. All my writings thus far have been those of the school assignment variety. I can say that none of the essays, journals, research papers, etc., have been anything worth remembering.

For my future career as a biomedical engineer, I will need to have writing skills that allow me to write professional emails, which was covered during class this year, cover letters for my resume, letters to businesses, lab reports, research papers, and more. To continue to build upon the writing skills that I obtained during high school, college level writing courses are of great importance. Benefits will consist of developing new writing techniques, and learning how to write in a variety of genres. In this semester alone, I learned how to write a profile, memoir, review, and proposal. These skills will be useful as I continue my education at Gannon University because they can be applied in my other classes. College Composition has allowed

When I finished writing “How Is College Different From High School” I was terrified. The feedback that I got with my graded essay helped me look back for errors on my future essay’s.

It’s less than a year since my family and I migrated here in Canada and I have gone through all sorts of things already. I started attending school 2 weeks after arriving from the Philippines and the school is already halfway through the semester. I had a lot of catching up to do but it is not that hard since I already learned the lessons before. Everything went well until the new academic year started. I thought I already know a lot about the lesson but then I realized I only very little.

When I first started college I knew my reading and writing skills were proficient, but I wasn’t 100% confident in my speaking skills. Luckily, I had come to the right place. After just 2 semesters I am now a very strong speaker excelling in volume and pacing during speeches. When it comes to my reading skills I can sometimes lose focus if the material isn't very interesting, but for the most part I do just fine. Finally, writing is a field that I can sometimes struggle in for one major reason. This is mainly because I am a horrible procrastinator, this causes me to have a lot less time to proofread as many others do. This leads me to my main goals for this class. As you can imagine, one of them is to strengthen my

Since it has been more than five years away from school and English as my second language, I encountered many challenges in this course, but also very rewarding. This course has given me the critical skills, research paper, and essay writing skill that will prepare me for success in future course. My writing skills aren’t one of my strength, but with practice and effort I am improving with time. My advice to future student taking any online course is you need to be self-discipline to continue with your reading as well as your writing. Eventhough you have to complete numerous assignments in such short time, it will prepare you for the rest of your courses. One of my difficult challenge on writing my research paper was learning for the first

“Originality - the quality or state of being original” (Merriam-Webster). I have constantly struggled with writing since a very young age. My teachers always told me that my creative writing skills are strong, but analytical writing, not so much. Of course, I place the majority of the blame on myself for this, but I also place some on the educational system. There is a certain standard society wants writing skills to meet, one of them being originality which happens to be exactly what I lack. Multiple attempts of trying to fix my problems have ultimately ended in failure. This led to me losing faith that I would ever be a good writer. I always find it hard to write about something that already exists or has been analyzed previously. Honestly,

Picture this: an aspiring pianist has just mastered their basic set of scales; they can play them moderately well and have a strong feeling of accomplishment at having mastered this difficult task. This young pianist is then asked to play Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Overwhelmed, they attempt to sight read this exquisite piece of music and to their ultimate frustration they cannot play it. It is at that moment when the pianist realizes that though they have put forth all possible effort, their resources and previous knowledge prevent them from playing this piece to its full potential. After practice, trial and error, and dedication, they will be able to successfully play better in time. This same approach can be used with