Blog 8

My improvement

 Nina Yang

W&C III

Ms. Guarino

  Time flies by so fast, the first half of the year is almost ends. I improved myself in many parts. In this writing class, I felt like I learned a lot of knowledge and I also improved my writing skills.

  Before taking this class, I sometimes felt lack of writing sources. I don’t have many things that I could write about, so I ended up with nothing to write or stuck in the middle of writing an essay. However, after taking this class, especially the creative writing part, I felt like there are tons of resources I could write about. The resources that I could write about exist almost anywhere around me. I could write a story about my desk, a cloud, or even the dirt under my bed. I finally feel that writing is interesting after taking more than 10 years of English class. In addition, since writing is based on grammar, I also learned much knowledge in grammar lessons we had in this writing class. We learned about the punctuation, the use of conjunction and preposition. Although to learn grammar is a boring thing to do, but Ms. Guarino made us to teach as a teacher. We made our grammar lesson interested to learn, and we learned better in this way than other ways. These were the goals that I wanted to achieve in the beginning of the year, and I think I made it. However, I also wanted to learn more vocabulary in order to use variety words in my writing. I think I still need make some efforts in this part of my goal. Grammar and recourses are like the foundation of the writing, and the vocabulary is like the blood of the writing. It makes the writing more vivid and fun to read. Besides that, I learned how to write an opening paragraph and an ending paragraph. It is like a formula of a math problem. Once you follow the formula, just add in the numbers that are your thesis, hook, and etc., you could write a great paragraph. I feel like I really learned a lot of stuff in this past semester in writing. Hope I could learn more about writing to increase my writing skills next semester.

  Now, we are working on the food essay, and we are learning how to right an ending paragraph. Hope I could achieve my goal during next semester and end up this class with better writing skills.