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    Ramiyah Mack-Curtis reflects on improving her writing skills over the course of her first college composition class. She struggled with organization, rambling, and straying from her main points in her early essays. After getting feedback from her professor, she recognized that she needed to contain her thoughts better and stop spontaneously inserting random sentences. She also realized that some of her paragraphs rambled too much. For later essays, she focused on structure, only including necessary information to support each point. She found that following an outline format helped ensure her paragraphs stayed on track. By the end of the semester, she had improved at communicating her ideas clearly and effectively to readers.

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    Ramiyah Mack-Curtis reflects on improving her writing skills over the course of her first college composition class. She struggled with organization, rambling, and straying from her main points in her early essays. After getting feedback from her professor, she recognized that she needed to contain her thoughts better and stop spontaneously inserting random sentences. She also realized that some of her paragraphs rambled too much. For later essays, she focused on structure, only including necessary information to support each point. She found that following an outline format helped ensure her paragraphs stayed on track. By the end of the semester, she had improved at communicating her ideas clearly and effectively to readers.

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    Ramiyah Mack-Curtis reflects on improving her writing skills over the course of her first college composition class. She struggled with organization, rambling, and straying from her main points in her early essays. After getting feedback from her professor, she recognized that she needed to contain her thoughts better and stop spontaneously inserting random sentences. She also realized that some of her paragraphs rambled too much. For later essays, she focused on structure, only including necessary information to support each point. She found that following an outline format helped ensure her paragraphs stayed on track. By the end of the semester, she had improved at communicating her ideas clearly and effectively to readers.

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    Mack- Curtis 1

    Ramiyah Mack- Curtis

    Marta Lord

    English 1301

    4 December 2020

    Reflective Essay

    Writing essays have always been a challenge for me and I haven’t truly enjoyed writing

    since about sixth grade. It might be because I constantly experience writer’s block, or I just have

    no interest in the topic that the essay is on. Even now I’m stuck in the same situation that I’m

    always in when writing essays. This semester confused me in the beginning and made me

    question my writing abilities, but I believe my writing has improved significantly since the start

    of the semester. With this being my first Composition class in college I attempted to go above

    and beyond when writing my first essay. It turns out that what I thought was exceptional writing

    was actually a terrible attempt at writing an essay. I had to break old habits and pick-up new

    strategies to improve my writing skills. After a critical conversation with my professor, I was

    able to realize exactly what I needed to change. The three main things that negatively affected

    my writing was the fact that I was having trouble with organization, and I was surprised to learn

    that I ramble throughout my essays.

    When it is time for me to sit down and write an essay my thoughts tend to be everywhere.

    One second, I’m trying to write my first body paragraph, and then the next I have started

    brainstorming ideas for the conclusion. Whenever I come up with a random sentence, I always

    place it in my essay. It wasn’t until my professor brought it to my attention that I realized

    spontaneously placing random sentences in my essay made the writing appear unorganized. It

    was difficult for the audience to understand what I was writing because I could never stay on
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    track. I had to break the habit of placing these sentences throughout my essay in order to present

    my information more clearly. There is still room for improvement as there are still times that I

    catch myself falling back into my old habits, but I’ve gotten better at correcting my mistake. In

    the end, once I was able to contain my thoughts and properly place them throughout the paper

    my essays were easier to read and understand.

    I also made a new discovery about the way I write this semester. I’ve never known that I

    ramble throughout my essays. This is another problem that my English teacher brought to my

    attention during our conference. Whenever I read my essays back to myself, they don’t sound

    like there are extra sentences added in there. A good example of a time when I rambled

    throughout an essay was in the third paragraph of my career evaluation essay. It is clear that my

    thoughts were all over the place in that paragraph and it is hard to follow along with what the

    overall message was supposed to be. There is a major change within my second final essay. The

    paragraphs in that essay flow easily and provide enough information to get my point across.

    This habit was not hard to break, but I did have to change the way I typically write my essays.

    This problem was easy to fix because of the simple fact that all I had to do was follow a formula.

    Once I started following the formula everything else fell into place. For example, the body

    paragraphs in my review essay were all over the place, while the paragraphs in my report essay

    were structured properly. They included a topic sentence, background information, sentences for

    commentary, and a conclusion sentence. In sum, learning how to properly execute the paragraphs

    in my essays significantly improved the quality of my writing.

    In conclusion, the changes I’ve made in my writing have made it easier to effectively

    communicate with my intended audience. I’ve learned that if I gather my thoughts and place

    them in a better order than the audience will be able to understand my paper better. I also learned
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    that it is best to refrain from rambling and that I should only add information necessary to

    proving my topic sentence. As I progress in the future my only hope is that my writing continues

    to improve. Ultimately, my writing progressively got better this semester and I’m grateful for

    everything that I’ve learned.

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