My life in English is very different than my normal life. My favorite subject in school is math, and I also love to play softball. I normally don't share my opinions with people, but I find that English is a way to share those opinions. I feel that I usually struggle in English because I struggle to find the motivation to write. I feel that through English this year a have greatly improved as a reader and a writer. I hope that this blog bettered me as a writer and helps me to assess my strengths, weaknesses, and goals in writing.
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 n...
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