This semester, I've already done a lot of writing in Dual English. We've had to write fun essays, as well as boring, uninteresting essays, but I always became better as a writer with each essay. I always have problems with not knowing how to start out my introduction paragraph, not having a wide variety of word choice, and sometimes having awkward wording in the sentences. These are my extremely common mistakes in all my essays so far. My strengths in writing are showing passion about the topic through my writing and staying on topic. When I have a topic that I am extremely passionate about, the essay is easy for me to compose.
Word choice has always been something that I never paid any attention to until last year. In the beginning of this year, though, I still forgot in some of my papers to use a good variety of word choice instead of the common used words. My peers and teacher marked the common words in my rough drafts and I changed them to better words in the final piece. In my descriptive essay, I used multiple descriptive words, of course, to enhance the piece and to also show that my writing has improved from before. It made my paper stand out and flow together. In my personal narrative, my peer editor marked that I used one better word in that essay. Even though it was just one, it made that part of the paper sound better than using a boring word.
Another problem I sometimes have with my writing is organization. When I get really into a topic, and I just start writing anything and everything that comes to my mind, it can get jumbled up and doesn't make sense when it is put on paper. In my mind and my eyes, it makes sense but to others, they don't understand what is going on in my essay. In my in-class writing prompt, I wrote about a negative experience that had a positive influence on my life. I had to really think about this before I could just start writing. Once I got the idea for my essay, i broke down each paragraph to each moment of the story. This helped me really organize the whole paper so that the story went in chronological order. It turned out very well and even on the grading sheet, both my peer editor and my teacher gave me gave me a 5 out of a for organization. Another essay that was organized well was my definition essay. Although there were no specific marks on the essay itself saying anything about organization, each paragraph started a new and different idea.
My last problem in writing is the actual writing process itself. Sometimes, I do not go through the process of having an introduction, three to four body paragraphs and a conclusion. Instead, I'll rush through and just have one extremely long paragraph of what I am writing about. For my research paper, I made sure I had all the information I needed before I started putting the whole together. Once that was done, I took the information I had and placed it in groups for the introduction, the body paragraphs and the conclusion. Doing this made my entire paper flow and make a lot of sense. My teacher even wrote on my paper "good intro". This showed me that I organized the information correctly and put it all in the right place.
Word choice has always been something that I never paid any attention to until last year. In the beginning of this year, though, I still forgot in some of my papers to use a good variety of word choice instead of the common used words. My peers and teacher marked the common words in my rough drafts and I changed them to better words in the final piece. In my descriptive essay, I used multiple descriptive words, of course, to enhance the piece and to also show that my writing has improved from before. It made my paper stand out and flow together. In my personal narrative, my peer editor marked that I used one better word in that essay. Even though it was just one, it made that part of the paper sound better than using a boring word.
Another problem I sometimes have with my writing is organization. When I get really into a topic, and I just start writing anything and everything that comes to my mind, it can get jumbled up and doesn't make sense when it is put on paper. In my mind and my eyes, it makes sense but to others, they don't understand what is going on in my essay. In my in-class writing prompt, I wrote about a negative experience that had a positive influence on my life. I had to really think about this before I could just start writing. Once I got the idea for my essay, i broke down each paragraph to each moment of the story. This helped me really organize the whole paper so that the story went in chronological order. It turned out very well and even on the grading sheet, both my peer editor and my teacher gave me gave me a 5 out of a for organization. Another essay that was organized well was my definition essay. Although there were no specific marks on the essay itself saying anything about organization, each paragraph started a new and different idea.
My last problem in writing is the actual writing process itself. Sometimes, I do not go through the process of having an introduction, three to four body paragraphs and a conclusion. Instead, I'll rush through and just have one extremely long paragraph of what I am writing about. For my research paper, I made sure I had all the information I needed before I started putting the whole together. Once that was done, I took the information I had and placed it in groups for the introduction, the body paragraphs and the conclusion. Doing this made my entire paper flow and make a lot of sense. My teacher even wrote on my paper "good intro". This showed me that I organized the information correctly and put it all in the right place.