Writing about Writing

I'm not even sure where to begin with this one! I guess I'll start by saying that my writing has really improved throughout the course of this class, in my opinion. Not only did I learn how important your thesis and topic statements are within any writing, but I think my confidence improved more than anything else. Which is actually something I was lacking the most. Although "confidence" isn't exactly a writing technique, it definitely effects your writing one way or the other. For example, it was brought to my attention that in a lot, almost all of, my essays I would start each sentence with "I feel," or "I think." These statements advertised a lack of confidence and sureness in my knowledge. I've learned to be confident in my writing without trying to shadow it with "I feel" or "I think."

Struggling in confidence isn't something that I just stumbled upon recently. It's definitely been something that I've had trouble with in all different areas of my life. But school has always been the big one, and college definitely had its ways in enhancing that. With this class being a much smaller one, I felt much more comfortable and less-hesitant on putting myself out there with my blog posts/forum posts and even my comments to others posts. I'm usually the shy student in class that doesn't speak up often, so this class very much pushed me and allowed me to voice my opinion more and respond to other's opinions. 

In addition to that, this class introduced me to different formats for writing and some different ways to get your point across. I've never experienced any type of blogging, but I've come to find out that it's a form of writing that I really enjoy. It is very laid-back and comfortable atmosphere for me me to write in. In contrast to this relaxed writing format, I've learned and improved on how to properly and professionally answer questions and even feed off of others thoughts more, such as our forums. This was more of a serious atmosphere, but yet still very open to all ideas. It also allowed me to improve on my conversation skills with other classmates upon a certain topic or subject. And of course, the writing I'm most use to, the response papers, have improved as well. I have strengthened my writing techniques as well and my clarity and specificity in my writing.