My Writing Assignment

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When a high school student transition to college, they slowly start to come to a realization that writing isn’t just required for english classes, but also for the outside world; college applications, resumes, scholorships. College requires you to critically analyze and think about not only yourself but also the external factors that surround us.Wether students realize it or not the external factors effect create certain mental inputs that create who they are as a writer and how they characterers as writers forms. The students writing identity and process goes furtherback into childhood, background, how they were educated. Just how all humans are different, our writing styles are different due to the certain external factors that have shaped …show more content…
I went back to my previous essays I have written in different English classes in highschool, and I identified my style of writing and my common mistakes, and I noticed that I try my best to orignize my thoughts and ideas in order,and use advance vocbulary but at the same time I lacked complete clear Ideas. So now while I’m writing I keep in mind the “Revision” concept, I have learned from the mistakes students like Tony make in their writing and learned how the students try to fix the structural mistakes by making more mistakes by incomplete thoughts, ideas and connection to the readers, I try my best to speak and writing in the level of the university and gain as much knowledge as possible before writing about a topic. With all of that In mind, I still use my experiences, and my problem posing methods outside of class in my writing, according to Dewey: “Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another's experience in order to tell him intelligently of one's own experience”(9). As a student, I try my best to challenge my “commonplaces” to meet with the reader’s “commonplaces” and have different …show more content…
learning from mistakes like these is what makes the student as sucessful skilled writer not only inside the classroom but also outside, the writing skills gained go with the student beyound college and shape who they are as writers. Like I always tell myself, “If I can identify my mistakes and truely learn from my mistakes, then I can be very
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