Writing Reflection

When I reflect back on my writing from the very first paper to my interview, I see tremendous improvement. My goal stepping into this class was to discard my bad habits such as being too repetitive and creating better transitions within my writing. When I compare my first paper to my last paper, I see less repetition and a lot smoother and cleaner transition from one paragraph to another. My grades also reflected this as I gradually improved from one paper to another. Therefore, I believe my writing did get better from Composition class. I believe I achieved my goal from this class and I believe the elbowing helped me out a lot. Peer feedback is crucial when it comes to improving your writing. Whenever we look at our own papers, we think it’s the perfect piece and nothing more needs to be done with it because of the fact that it is our paper. However, when others look at it, they look at the paper trying to find mistakes and flaws within our writing. Through peer feedback, I was able to cut out a lot of repetition that I did not catch when I read my own paper. Therefore, the processes that we went through in Composition class also helped to improve my writing skills. The last thing that really helped me out was the blogs and notebook entries that were required. The only way to get better at writing is by writing everyday. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. I believe that through these multiple entries, my writing became smoother because of the fact that I was so accustomed to writing almost every other day. I liked the fact that we were forced to write a lot in this class and it seems to have paid off for I was able to get rid of my bad habits. Practicing writing seems to be the only way to get better at writing. Composition class has taken my writing to the next level.