Writing Development and Growth: A Reflection on Semester-Long Progress in Academic Writing
Overview
This reflection paper documents the author's writing development throughout a college semester, examining past challenges with sentence construction and paraphrasing, and demonstrating improvement in structural and citation skills. The author frames writing difficulties as learning opportunities and identifies specific areas for future improvement including plagiarism prevention, editing, and proofreading.
What this reflection paper covers
- Introduction to writing as a learning practice and overview of past writing challenges
- Identification of previous weaknesses in sentence structure, paragraph construction, and paraphrasing from sources
- Demonstration of improved writing skills, particularly in writing project #3, and positive attitude toward constructive criticism
- Current challenges with citations, referencing styles, and source evaluation
- Future goals including plagiarism-free writing, enhanced editing skills, and improved proofreading techniques
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Writing is a practice every learner encounters in their education journey. It is a learning process that we improve bit by bit until we perfect it. This essay is a reflection of my writing experience this semester in college. It highlights my journey as a writer and a thinker from I have come from and where I am heading.
I have heard an unfriendly relationship with writing in the past. My biggest challenge was to construct sensible and structural sentences to build a paragraph. It is challenging to collect facts and put them in writing to produce chronologically arranged sections of ideas (Fareed et al., 2016). Another issue that deteriorated my relationship with writing is paraphrasing ideas from information sources. I ended up copy-pasting some phrases because I made my mind rigid to expand the views from sources. This relationship, however, improved with time.
I considered my relationship with writing a strength. It challenged me to do more research on writing to ensure that I perfect it. I believe learning is a process that encourages us to try even after failing because no one is perfect. Therefore, we should take every challenge as an opportunity to expand our knowledge. Every time I received negative comments or criticism, I took it as an opportunity to do more research and correct the mistake. I believe this is what has nurtured my writing. Before this semester, I possessed paraphrasing and information sourcing skills.