How This Class Has Improved My Writing Skills

        It's not that I can't get my thoughts in order as I start to write. I feel I am a smart enough person to write a descent paper. It seems as though when I am writing, all my thoughts rush into my head at once. I have devised a plan for this. Before I begin to write, I write down all of the possible thoughts I could have on the particular topic I am writing on. My high school teachers called this process brainstorming. I never thought this exercise, which seemed like such a pain in high school, would help me out in my writing so much. I can now go off on as many tangents in my head as I usually do when I am writing, and still be able to write a good paper because I organized my thoughts before I began to write.

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Other skills I have learned from this class are using correct grammar and how to make my thesis flow into my paper. I was never very good at either of these areas of

writing. My grammar was pretty poor because we had never focused on grammar in high school. My teachers had just assumed I knew all of it from grade school, when I was never really taught much grammar at all.  As for thesis statements, mine usually were not very strong. They went well with my topic. They just didn't have the spark they needed to make my papers any good.

I do feel this class has improved my writing skills. I have much better grammar usage, MLA doesn't seem so complicated any more, my thoughts are more organized and I don't use run-on sentences as often. My grades were very poor in the beginning of the year, and toward the end, they started to get a little better. I have more confidence in my writing now and I don't always fear a bad grade. My writing may not be very good but it has improved and I am satisfied with my writing style.