Writer's Profile

During the course of this semester I feel like I've grown as a writer. I can't actually say how much I grew as a writer, but I did grow no matter how big or small. I don't feel like I learned anything specifically that will help me with my writing in the future but I did grow as a writer, simply because of the fact that I did a lot of writing. If you write a lot of different things you are going to grow no matter what, it's just like if someone takes a lot of jump shots playing basketball they are going to get better even if it's just a little bit. I don't think that there was anything that happened in class that either helped or impeded my development as a writer. Right now I still feel like I’m a pretty good writer. My writing process definitely hasn't throughout the course of the semester. I still take the same approach when I'm about to write, by waiting until the last minute to start writing. I think that my thoughts flow better that way, and I probably won't stop doing it this until I'm negatively affected by it. The only goal I ever set as a writer is escaping the class with a B, and my goal hasn't changed throughout the semester. 

The only challenge I had during the semester was writing the Inquiry Paper. The reason I found this specific assignment so challenging was because it was asking for me to write a type of paper that I’ve never had to write before. It was the first time that I had to write an argumentative paper, and I had a problem preventing it from being conversational. The only way I was able to overcome this obstacle was by reading the feedback and learning what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. I believe that this assignment if any fostered my growth as a writer the most, because I was forced to write differently. I’m glad that I had to do the Inquiry paper because I’m pretty sure that I will run into another argumentative paper somewhere down the road.

At the beginning of the semester I expected to be like any other English class I’ve taken in the past. I expected to read some things and write some things. My expectations never changed throughout the semester because we did exactly what I expected us to do. I am happy that I took this class, it was pretty fun and I never felt like I didn't want to go to it.