Keep it coming!

In the past four years of high school I have taken many different classes. Although I did well in most of them, I never really felt that I would actually use half of the things in learned in them. College writing has been very different. I have seen improvements in my writing already, and that is motivation for me to continue to better my writing.

My favorite thing about college writing is the fact that we are able to choose our topics freely. Yes we have to stick with the prompt, but we choose what we want. This makes writing more fun, and sometimes even easier because we can write about things that we like, or have experienced. Another thing i like about college writing is the one on one time we get. Since there are only a handful of students in the class, the amount of time we get with Mr. Ruggieri is a lot more than we would in a regular sized class. That has been the biggest step in the improvements in my writing. Dislikes I have about the class are doing the bookwork. This does help with picking out the thesis and making us more critical readers, but it gets boring.

The best thing I have learned that improved my writing is that it is okay to break the rules in the right situations. This really gives the paper character and makes it more fun to read. I am still working on improving the "wow" factor in my writing and that is what I really want to happen in the next quarter. I want to write a paper that is actually a college level paper and interesting. I am confident in my ability and in the teachings I will receive throughout the next quarter, and I know I will be able to write that paper.