Mallory Blessed
Literature & Composition
12/14/09
Self Reflection For The Great Escape
This essay was my definite first choice when I found out what the final project was. I have wanted to revise this essay since I wrote it, and received feedback from the students in the class. When I was writing this essay, it became my favorite to write throughout the entire year. The ideas came very easily to me and the topic was general enough in that I could take the topic and go in whatever direction I wanted to with it. I like the ability to have a creative liberty with essays because in all other classes essay have to be exact and perfect. There can’t be freedom when writing about a topic; everything has to be written in a black and white form. I love being able to creatively express myself, like a true author would do when writing a novel. This paper was also the easiest for me to write because I was able to be as creative as I would like when describing my favorite and best reading experience. I feel like if I can give a great explanation of my reading experience then I too have become an author that takes a reader away to a place of vivid settings and escape.
I think I have definitely been working on my ability to clarify my ideas and points in my papers. This is a large problem that I have been having with all of my writing. I think I have become better at this, but I still have to keep working on this when editing and revising my papers. I believe I have gotten better at writing my introduction and conclusion paragraphs, but my skills still need to keep improving for me to become better at writing these parts of the essays. Especially because these two parts of a paper are very important for tying my ideas and thesis into the points made throughout my paper. I feel that I have accomplished many things this semester, including my introduction and conclusion paragraphs and clarifying my thoughts. My writing has gradually, yet steadily gotten better, but I am still not the best writer. I still feel accomplished in that my work has improved since the beginning of the semester and will keep getting better throughout my college career.
