Class Conclusion

            This semester I feel like my writing has improved greatly.  I participated both in a creative writing class and this first year writing and rhetoric class second semester and I think the combination of the two has helped me with more eloquent phrasing and description.  Specifically, the first assignment in which we described a memory was a big break through for me.  In high school all of our writing was analytical and rarely descriptive, so having the chance to describe a memory in depth was a whole new experience.  I chose to write about my horse because horses are something that I can easily describe in depth because I know them so well.  The interesting part of that paper, for me, was combining the description with a thesis to prove a point.

            The second paper proved to be far more difficult for me.  I think it was much harder because not only was there much more research involved, but that topic was so broad that it was hard to choose what exactly to write about.  Even when I had chosen my topic, it was hard to organize and narrow my focus.  In the end I felt like my writing was persuasive and well formatted, but there was not very good organization and not enough factual support.

            This last paper started off as extremely challenging for me.  I was concerned about formatting and how to incorporate my interview.  Also, it was honestly a little hard for me to fill up 12 pages.  I ended up just adding more quotes and analysis to add length, and originally I thought that this would make the paper repetitive.  But after I figured out a better organization, I think I succeeded in presenting the data at a good pace in which the point is established and explained just the right amount, and then I move to the next topic.  At the end of this class, I am extremely proud of my writing, especially this last paper.