Improvements

I have learned a lot about myself as a writer this year including what I like to write about, how I like to describe it, and where I will write about it. This year we explored many different types of writing and one in particular stuck out to me. This was the narrative style of an essay. I thought that this writing activity made a unique portrait of myself and my experiences. It was easy for me to write because I could express my thoughts and my travels. This brings me to how I learned what topics I favor. I have learned that I write the best when I am describing my own experiences. I have also learned that I like to describe these personal events in the form of a narrative essay. Next, I have learned that I not only like to write about these things but I like to write about them in either a blog post or formal essay. These sources might seem very different from each other, but both of these places to write have come to favorites for me.

Improvements in my writing seem very clear to me now as I approach my last weeks in the freshman year. One area that I have improved in is using supporting evidence. At the beginning of the year, I would only back up my thesis or thoughts with one or two reasons. Now, I have lots of connecting points that benefit my reasoning or stance for my thoughts and ideas. I have also noticed that I have made significant improvements in my citations and transitions. Towards the start of the year, I wouldn't have known how to make a correct citation or embed a quotation with the right transition, but now I have come to easily make corrections in these two areas. For example, if I see a quote that is left alone I will reread it and add accurate information to slowly introduce it to the paragraph. Another instance is if I see that a citation is at the end of a paragraph or is left with a citation as the ending I will make sure to add more evidence to further my point while strengthening my paragraph so that the quote is not out in the open.