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Learning About Myself as a Writer

As writer, I think that I have drastically improved in many different aspects throughout the year. From word choice to sentence fluency to supporting a claim, I feel that with every paper and English assignment I get better with a lot of different things. I feel like things that we learned in class, going to the writing center, and just working on papers all helped me to become a better writer. Something that I feel that I have improved on the most is backing up my evidence, writing transitions, and doing more technical things like in text citations.

When it comes to backing up my evidence prior to English in ninth grade, I wasn't very good at doing  it because all we had done in previous English classes all we had to do was back up a claim with evidence form a book or document, not actually use our own thoughts to support the claim. Being pushed in everyone paper for this class to use our own thoughts to back up our thesis statement is what I used as motivation to do so. I was never very good as writing transitions from one point or paragraph to the next, but over the course of the school year, I feel like I have improved on linking the two points. Before this year in English, I not sure if I even knew what an in-text citation was. Now, I can do it with ease and I feel that this aspect of writing is very important in preventing plagiarizing.

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