Over the course of this semester, I feel that my writing has
grown tremendously. I think that, with each and every successive paper, I was writing
with more freedom. This change is apparent when I look at the differences from
my first, rhetorical analysis, essay to this final, popular, essay that I am
currently still working on. Although I still like my writing in the rhetorical
analysis and think that I did a good job of analyzing the commercial, my final
essay just seems to have a much more entertaining voice to it. I use a greater
variety of sentence structures and I seem much more willing to take risks with
my writing. I think these changes resulted from the fact that, at some point
this semester, I stopped trying to write a boring, standardized essay and
realized that I was definitely able to take risks with my writing.
I really hope that my writing will continue to grow, since I
feel that writing skills are very important to have in life. I have enjoyed
reading some of the writing in our field guide, and I like trying to model my
own writing of these authors. I would
say that it is definitely my goal to be able to write somewhere near the level
of these people, since I like how they are able to draw the reader in so well
and, by the end of the passage, often change their perspectives on the matter
at hand.
I did not get much of a chance to look over my writing from
this semester, but I picked out an example of my writing that I am relatively
proud of. It is the first and last sentences of my Critical Review Paper:
“As an
uncontrollable mildew begins to take root at the foundations of both an entire
genre and of a novel, the mental stability of a man also undergoes the
unyielding wrath of decay.”
“Because once the
decayed mentality of specific genres and novel adaptations is pulled away by
the roots, a dazzling new flower is allowed to grow, with The Shining serving
as the seed.”