Reflection Paper

At first, I had major difficulty knowing where to begin. This was especially difficult when, I was writing my paper personal grudges. I’m a very private person and, for that reason, I really had difficulty opening up to the audience. I found the best thing I could do to write down all of my ideas, without any real direction. I would write for a couple of hours. I would then leave it and come back the next day. The following day, I would edit it and, develop my thesis. When I proofread my papers, they always seemed out of order. Upon realization of this, I began to cut and paste my ideas, all around the essay, until I found the correct place. This was of great help and my assignments started to improve. I really turned a corner in my paper addiction. I found my voice and really opened up to the reader. I was brutally

It wasn’t until my first day of classes, when I was assigned to write a paper describing the “kind of writer” I am, that I realized I was in over my head. I am anything but a writer, and there’s no way I was going to be able to fake it, so the next day I dropped the writing class.

I think what I struggled most with was the descriptive language, and vivid language to paint a picture for my audience. I thought writing in the past was going to be a piece of cake, but once I learned more rules when referring to the past in writing, I found myself worrying whether or not I used the right tense of transitional phrases and active verbs. Also I think trying to incorporate similes and metaphors were hard for me because I felt silly when adding these weird and odd phrases. Or perhaps it was just weird to me because my similes and metaphors didn’t seem so clever or at college level. I would say this paper stressed me out because I struggling adding the dialogue, and knowing whether or not I included it correctly

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 writing experience there have been many papers that I enjoyed writing and many that I did not. The writing experience that is the most memorable to me is in my freshman year of high school at University High School in Orange City, Florida. I wrote a short story called "Speech to Roseanne". This story was about a young southern female teenager who was just starting high school. During the previous summer time she had a major dispute that happened between herself and best friend, Roseanne.This dispute carried over to the start of their freshmen year in high school. In the end, despite the fact that Roseanne tried to apologize for the comments she made about Mel Bell's family, Mel Bell could not get passed what her formal best friend had said.

My strengths lie in argumentative writing and scientific writing, as I continue to practice both delivering compelling arguments and conveying scientific information in easily comprehensible manners. Personal narrative writing and writing that involves having to discuss my life and experiences are the most difficult for me, followed by creative writing. My introversion paired with my reluctance to dabble in creative writing has stunted my growth as a storyteller. In my freshman year philosophy class, I had an assignment to relate philosophical texts to my perception of myself as a person. I did not get the grade I anticipated on that paper, as my professor explained that although my analysis of the text was well executed, I didn’t write enough about myself. This was a turning point in realizing how weak my narrative and creative skills had become. Ultimately, becoming a well-rounded writer requires me to work far beyond my comfort

Throughout this school year, I have written many different kinds of papers. Those different kinds of papers include narratives, analysis, and arguments. This year in English, I was very successful with some of the parts of my papers, but there were other parts I struggled with. I had some things like my introductions and the way I explained things that were great. But things like my conclusions and my transitions still needed some work. So, throughout this year I have been working to improve those things.

Looking back on the last 8 weeks in this class, I have learned a lot about myself as a writer, and that I have a lot more to learn. Though I do not consider myself to be a writer, once we are placed in the student role and given an assignment that involves writing a paper, what you do or do not consider yourself does not matter. You are now a writer when placed in a role as a writer. This has been something that I have personally struggled with due to my decision to put myself in a student role, later than normal. Whether we accept our roles as writers or not, we must identify what type of writers we are so that we can identify our strengths and weaknesses, and how to approach them.

At the beginning of English Composition, intimidated by the expanse of knowledge that my teacher had. I was worried about if my papers would ever be good enough because in my earlier years, writing was not a thing I was good at. However, as the semester progressed, I learned that I my writing skills were up to par with college writing. In the end, I realized that my introductions and conclusions had improved compared to high school and that I needed to work on my grammar, development of my ideas, and making sure my main points are developed and clear. Furthermore, I plan to correct my errors by using various writing strategies and resources.

Reading and writing is a fundamental part of our learning experience. Reading allows you to enter worlds and experience things you wouldn’t be able to experience anywhere else and writing expands your knowledge not only on a specific topic but you learn more about yourself, you’ll be surprised how far your imagination can take you as soon as your pen hits the paper.

Overall, this paper has helped me to identify my own weaknesses when it comes to my writing Which I think will equip me to give those areas the extra attention they may need when I’m writing future papers.

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When I was four years old, in the dining room of the house in Geneva my family was renting, I unleashed one of my historic temper tantrums. “Mom, no one talks in your dumb language!” I said, vowing to never speak it again. While my mother was upset I was insulting her native tongue, German, she understood my mindset. My experience growing up in different places meant my perception of the world wasn’t reflective of my ethnic background; while we travelled to Germany every year for the holidays, we had never lived there. At this point in my life, I treasure the fact that I grew up in a bilingual household with parents who were passionate about language, but my journey to this point has been a strange one.

To be completely honest, this paper was the first paper that I felt really confident when I was submitting it. In high school, all the topics that I had to write about was given to me by my teacher. But with this paper, I had the power to select a topic that I was really interested and that, I believe, is why I felt really confident when I submitted this paper.

We are all strong. Some people never realize this, but everybody has an inner warrior. While it’s true that not everyone has great physical power, but mentally and emotionally everybody has some kind of strength. For me, I am not physically as robust or as athletic as some, but mentally I am strong. There are times when I bring myself down, but I know that my strong mind will soon return to its normal balance and pick me back up. There are times when I am down and I feel I may never be the same, but no matter what my mental strength lends a hand, and returns me to my ordinary routine. The perfect example of my strong mind is my relationship with swimming. My beloved sport, swimming, is meant for someone with a strong mental mind. Therefore, feel like I was born to swim.