Reflection on Lesson Learnt

Introduction

Writing an essay was one of the major problems which I had, and it really affected my grades. Each and every time I submitted an assignment, I would receive a lot of comments from the lecturer. This made to realize how important writing an essay was. I tried to improve my essays through improving on the lecturers comments. This did not however help at all, since I was not able to understand how to organize compound sentences. I had a very huge problem with tense, and I ended up mixing different tenses, making my essay unreadable. I realized my poor performance was attributed to poor essay writing skills.

After realizing my problem, I focused on improving my grammar, through reading a lot of literature books. Each and every day I would visit the library for two hours, whereby I would read different literature books, after which I would right my own essays. After a period of two weeks, I was able to construct very good sentences, without having any problems relating to tenses. Moreover, I was able to improve my grades, and the literature remarks also became positive. I am currently very comfortable with essay writing, since I have been able to write good essays with very strong topic sentences, which help in making the lecturer to give me positive remarks.

My writing skills have evolved since I decided to focus on reading a lot of literature materials, and doing a lot of practice. I am currently able to focus on the given topics, thus making the flow of information to be in a systematic manner. Moreover, I have been able to carefully write an introduction which critically introduces the essay, thus making the reader to be able to understand what the paper is talking about. Prior to reading literature books, I could not be able to come up with an introduction which represents what the essay is about. In addition, my thesis statement was not also good, as I had not understood how to craft a thesis statement. However, I am currently able to introduce the essay, with an introduction which gives the reader and insight of what the paper is talking about. The thesis statement is also good, as it catches the attention of the reader.

When it comes to argumentive essays, I focused on writing the essay based on both sides of the issue being asked. I consequently discuss the issue at hand, support it, and provide a counter argument and refutation afterwards. I was able to understand this structure, after conducting a lot of literature research. On the other hand, I realized I was good at both argumentive and essays. This has consequently made it easier for me to be able to improve my grades, since the literature can be able to understand my essay. My main weakness is the lack of consistency, I am not consistent in writing good essays, a thing which consequently affects my essays, since I only focus on the literatures remarks, forgetting about important aspects which I should incorporate in the essay.

Conclusion

Doing a lot of literature research and reading a lot of literature material has consequently helped me to improve my writing skills. I can now be able to effectively write an essay which can be easily understood by the reader. Moreover, I am also able to stick to the topic, thus avoiding being irrelevant. I am very grateful for learning how to properly write an essay, since I can now be able to write a good essay hence improving my essay. I currently focusing on improving my communication skills.