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Thomas Ramirez

Professor Ditch

English 114A

9 May 2019

My Writing got Better

Through my whole years in school I have never really liked to rea or write. Reader I

dislike the most but when it came to be writing I was always told that my ideas were good but

the way I presented them was either incorrect or wrongly placed. This led me to find that I

wasn’t all that good at writing not one bit. But during my high school years I grew and grew

better and better by every essay and paper that I would write. I would always think that my

writing was never good or at least I would try to an extent. Once my English teacher in the 11th

grade told me that I should try harder in my writing and not to just meet the minumin

requirement to get a grade, but to put some care and heart into the work. In this English class I

believe that through my 3 essays I have progress in a matter that took me almost 6 years to do.

In my first essay we had to discuss what 3 authors decided was the right way to find

happiness and compare and contrast. In this essay I believe that my only problem was the

organization, structure and the work cited page that I did not put which cost me the grade. All

through the class time that was left I dedicated myself to practice and to learn how to cite

properly and efficiently. In the revision that I made I ensured that I had that work cited age and

the citation correcty and properly. I also made the mistake to confuse the reader with the way I

organized the essay which made it confusing and difficult to read and comprehend. After all the

verbal feedback that Professor Ditch gave me it helped me open my eyes and to reread and to fix
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the mistakes that. Organization cause to the context that the essay had. The problem that I had

with the structure was the it tended to mix up and not use the quote sandwich method that is

preferably the best way to contextualize a wrote to the essay. This improvements and changes to

the essay gave me a more understanding of how to follow instructions and that if I don’t

concequences will occur.

In the second essay that I wrote it focused on two character for =m he novel The

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann, Shaffer, and Annie Barrows in

which we had to choose two characters and prove if they are happy or not. The issue

that I had with this essay was that I used quotes that didn’t support my thesis, my thesis

was not really clear and required me to elaborate more and my introductions was way

too long. When it came to the quotes supporting m essay thesis it was hard for me to

put together and to identify what my quotes were actually doing in the essay but once I

got the hang of it I changed it up a little bit ad it made a huge different. I reinforced h=my

thesis that it was clearer and more understanding to the point of the essay. I had to cut

my intro due to it being more of a summary that an intro of the story. This made the

essay more straight forward rather that =n it is going in circles and going nowhere. With

all the improvements done I believe that it makes it 100 times better than the first time

that I wrote it.

This class has given me better and more strategical to reinforce my essay and to

make it clearer and more professional rather than an essay that is half assed just to get

it over with for a grade. These three essays had help me realize that sometimes

improvement is hard to make but at the end of the day it make all the difference in the

world.