school work
As the first semester of freshmen year comes to a close, we as an English 100 class have written about many different topics throughout the course. We started with an introductory paper about ourselves, followed by a paper that we shared what life lessons we wanted to pass down to our children, next came a description essay where we went into as much detail as we possibly could on one or two photos we found, second to last was a persuasive paper, and our final paper was all about any country we chose. As we went from paper to paper my writing only improved as I learned new skills and better ways to write. The essay we first wrote was the introduction essay, it was simply to get to know different interesting things about each student and get a feel for how we all write. On this paper I did well writing all about fostering kittens back home with my family. My details were good, I had a clever title, and my word choices really helped not make the paper repetitive, all of this good content I had in my paper put me at a grade of 90% on this paper. I struggled with a few smalls things on the first paper of the semester, punctuation was a slight struggle, I needed to not use exclamation marks and know when to spell out numbers. My punctuation problem also overflowed into major problems I had on this paper, which were commas. Commas were something I had a big problem with the whole semester, the problem dwindled as we kept writing, but this problem was most prominent in this first introductory paper. Another large problem I had was using words like I and you throughout my paper. To revise this paper I took out the you and Is I had put in there. I also not only checked twice, but three times for comma mistakes. The following paper was the ethics paper, in which we wrote about lessons that our parents taught us or failed to teach us that we hope to one day teach our kids. This paper was really enjoyable for me to write because I think explaining why everyone