Evolution of My Writings
This year I have faced many challenges that have helped me grow as a writer. I have learned new styles of writing like a literary analysis, a research paper, and blog posts that developed my writing skills.
I have never even attempted to analyze a book so throughly using its own words as well as mine like I had to in Lord of the Flies. I had to learn how to dig deep into the book not only with my mind, but express what I discovered with words. I learned how to express my thoughts in an effective way while writing the literary analysis. The research paper made me a better paraphraser and summarizer because of the in-depth research that I did on the Holocaust. Reading those horrifying, violent, and long documents required a lot of paraphrasing and summarizing so I wouldn't be plagiarizing and end up with at least a 20 page paper. Another thing I learned in the research paper was how to use in-text citations correctly and create a works cited page, which will come in handy writing other papers that require quotes and research. Writing blogs every week helped tremendously with word choice and how to develop ideas. When I first started writing blogs, I had a hard time coming up with how to respond, but now it comes a lot easier. Three or four ideas immediately pop into my head and I can develop each idea. All of this has allowed me to greatly improve as a writer.
I am now able to express my ideas, develop them, paraphrase literary works, cite information, have confidence in my word choice, and come up with many different approaches to an assignment. I used to struggle with these things and now I consider them my strengths as a writer.
I have never even attempted to analyze a book so throughly using its own words as well as mine like I had to in Lord of the Flies. I had to learn how to dig deep into the book not only with my mind, but express what I discovered with words. I learned how to express my thoughts in an effective way while writing the literary analysis. The research paper made me a better paraphraser and summarizer because of the in-depth research that I did on the Holocaust. Reading those horrifying, violent, and long documents required a lot of paraphrasing and summarizing so I wouldn't be plagiarizing and end up with at least a 20 page paper. Another thing I learned in the research paper was how to use in-text citations correctly and create a works cited page, which will come in handy writing other papers that require quotes and research. Writing blogs every week helped tremendously with word choice and how to develop ideas. When I first started writing blogs, I had a hard time coming up with how to respond, but now it comes a lot easier. Three or four ideas immediately pop into my head and I can develop each idea. All of this has allowed me to greatly improve as a writer.
I am now able to express my ideas, develop them, paraphrase literary works, cite information, have confidence in my word choice, and come up with many different approaches to an assignment. I used to struggle with these things and now I consider them my strengths as a writer.
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