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Zaryna Urbina

Mrs.Litle

Eng 121

2 May 2019

Throughout the year

This semester I learned many things for becoming a better writer. I picked up many skills

throughout the year. Coming into this class second semester I was unsure of many things, only

knew a little of how something was needed to be written. Every day I was able to test my skills

and use them in every day work to help me improve my writing. These skills that I picked up

will help me in writing to make my work just so much better.

Me as a writer it takes me a while to process everything I need put into the paper. My

writing process is very difficult. Mostly when I’m doing any kind of work, I need some kind of

music or tv playing. I need to be able to hear something else that makes me want to write the

paper rather than just it being dead silent. “I am a multiple type of learner; I have many different

ways to study and learn. One of the types is that I need to physically do it while you’re

explaining how to do it (Reflection 1). This was from a small paper I wrote on what type of

learner I am. It explains the many different ways I need to do something in order for it to get

done and be done correctly. For many people studying and being able to write papers could be

very different they might need it to be silent in order for them to think.

One of the first things that I was taught was how to format my paper correctly and how

not to plagiarize. MLA papers are very precise on how they are formatted, in the top left you will
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have your name, instructors name, the course and the date its due. It will all be in Times font 12

as well as double spaced through the whole paper. The basics for MLA have many things like

the in-text citation, meaning you quote something from anywhere and you would put the authors

name and the page number you got it from. It also has the works cited page, listing every cite

that you use to write the paper. Plagiarism is theft, and it has no place in an academic institution

(syllabus 6).

Another main thing we did throughout the year was read then write something small, so

we understand the material we read. Reading the NFG and writing journals every week. The

journals we wrote every week help us the students improve our writing, being able to read the

topic and write a paper. Writing something every week could improve the writing by just fixing

the problems from the last paper and always improving for a better journal the next week.

Personally, me as a writer, I’m able to read something and write a very skilled paper.

Next, we had our first main paper that was due, we needed to write about. We examined a

visual text and out into 3 categories ethos, pathos, and logos. When writing a paper you need to

first plan out what you’re going to write. For me I needed to be able to finish my rough draft so I

could get other students’ vision on my paper, I really need someone to always revise my papers

just in case I miss something. When revising my paper, I noticed I need to make big changes, in

order to put what I want to say in perspective. Students often think when fixing/revising your

paper its not fixing the grammar, spelling its so that your perspective of the paper could be seen

more clearly. This class taught me that instead of just re-reading your paper and trying to fix the

grammar, it’s better to use a hard copy and fix/correct all the problems with a pen being able to
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see what you’re fixing and taking out of the paper you wrote, especially the parts that where just

thrown in there just run on and to try a add a little more detail.

Through the year I’ve learned many things that will help me for the future to write a

paper. I wrote many papers or even just small paragraphs in order for my writing process to hit a

level of greatness, I’m still working on the small little details in order for my writing to improve.

I understand how to effectively to use my time to write a “great” paper. Using the small

improvements to fix the grammar and the small things. Being able to write the “great A” paper

you need to be passionate and want to actually write about something you care about. In order

for the “A” paper it needs to take time not being rushed, you are putting time and thinking about

everything you need to put in the paper. The paper you really feel passionate about is the paper

that will be the “best one”.