Introductory Essay

During my first year of college, I learned many new ways to become a better writer.  I have always tried to improve my writing skills ever since I started writing in grade school.  After the first semester of college, I found ways to write better and more efficient.  I found it a lot easier to write letters and e-mails to people.  College comp has been a big help in many ways to improve my writing skills.

There are many things I learned from college comp.  I learned how to catch the hard to find bad sentences and revise them.  I also learned a lot about narration, classification, and how to write a better cause and effect paper.  I had a lot of difficulties with the second essay.  It was very hard to get a good thesis on the topic I was writing about.  To get the job done, I used the free writing method for ten minutes.  That helped me out a lot.  Now every time I write an essay I free write a lot of ideas down to get something going in my mind.  After I finish my essay, I always proof read to catch any comma splices, run on sentences, and any “yous” in the paper.  My most favorite piece I worked on was essay number four on cause and effect.  It helped me be a better writer because I really wanted to get a better score on that essay than all the other ones I wrote.

In any case, without college comp 1 and 2, I’d be lost when it came to write an essay for homework or tests.  I think over time I will developed more and more as a writer.  I have developed a lot this year in writing thanks to college comp class.  Before I graduated high school, my writing skills were very poor in many areas.  That tells me a lot about developing as a writer from looking at the past.  Now I can look forward by working on my essays more to develop my writing skills.