Reflective Essay
Reflective Essay
Introduction
There comes a time when you need to take action and start working on basic skills that will alleviate your writing standards. After being pointed out by my teacher for basic grammar, sentence development, spelling and punctuation mistakes, I knew that I needed to make some changes. In addition, in some of my previous work, my teacher also asked me to work on my creative and descriptive writing skills and make them sharp with regular writing practice. I chose to enrol in the WRTG 101 course after finding out several gaps in my ability to write essays and papers. Within few weeks of starting the course, I realized the basic mistakes I was making. The course helped me to streamline my writing process and improved my ability to put my thoughts on paper. I began WRTG 101 with average grammar mistakes, sub-standard sentence development, minor spelling mistakes and constant punctuation mistakes; but now I have managed to master these deficiencies in my writing process.
After going through previous work, I got to know some of the common errors I was making in writing. I asked my professor assigned for the course to help me out with my mistakes. My professor gave me some pointers to overcome basic punctuation, grammar, spelling, and sentence structure errors. The pointers helped me to understand the way I could overcome my mistakes. My professor provided with homework to improve sentence building and asked to do the practices of selecting correct grammatical sentences out of a set of 4. This practice sharpened my ability to develop sentences and choose correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structures. After completing these exercises my professor handed me with writing assignments with several essay topics. After witnessing a reduction in mistakes, I started to gain confidence in my writing skills. With regular practice, I can say now that my standard of writing has improved significantly through this course.
I improved my writing skills after enrolling in the WRTG 101 course and asking for help from my professor. The course provided me with the platform to understand the writing mistakes I was making previously and locate the source of the mistakes. In addition, several assignments and practices performed under the supervision of my professor have helped me to curtail the basic mistakes. The course also provided me with the suitable environment to hone my writing skills and understand the correct way of using grammar and punctuation. Also, during the course, I learned that some of the spelling mistakes can be avoided and sentence structure is an essential part of writing essays and academic papers. The biggest contribution was made by several feedbacks given on drafts by the professor as the detailed criticisation made me learn from my mistakes.
It was obvious for me to learn and improve my writing skills. Proficient writing skills are an asset for students as in every semester, you have to write several essays. Also, I personally wanted to improve my writing skills as there was no way to escape the deficiency of writing skill with regular assignments and essays. I felt disappointed with my writing skills when I found out that other students in the class were way ahead of me. I wanted to ensure that I too could get the best out of myself and compete with other students. Therefore, it was necessary that I graduated from the course with the ability to explain at least my stance in written form and express myself to other people. Overall, I had to learn and improve my skills as it is part of my job as a student and having the support of my professor helped.
After going through the course, I feel that I can call myself as a proficient writer. I have done several assignments to improve my skills and I have to thank my professor for the guidance throughout the process. I do not struggle with basic writing mistakes anymore and I feel very confident about writing my thoughts on issues and topics assigned in the classroom.
I feel very confident with the use of basic spelling knowledge, punctuation methods, and effective use of grammar and sentence structures that I have learned in the course. The writing skills developed through the WRTG 101 course would help me in completing assignments throughout the semester and later on. Overall, I can say that taking this course was the right decision as it helped me to achieve my objectives and provides me with a platform to deliver high quality assignments in the future.
Conclusion
This course has helped me to improve by writing skills such as grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and spellings. These skills will improve the quality of my papers and assignment in the classroom and the coming future. I would like to keep working on spellings as English is a vast language and there are several words that are not spoken regularly. In addition, there are several ways to express a thought or word and some words better relate to a particular sentence. I would like to hone my spelling skills by practicing regularly and using different synonyms while writing essays.
