Course Completing Reflection

Throughout this year, I have learned and experienced a new and higher level of writing. Now that I am a sophomore, I have looked back at my old writings and evaluated all of the mistakes I have made and compared them to all of my writings this year and I am highly impressed. I was impressed because my writings last year were very insipid and I did not enjoy writing them because it was overly austere. I lacked good vocabulary and my writings were very cliché. This year, I have learned major organization and vocabulary skills. I also used to use petty middle school words such as: stuff and things which did not give my writing enough description. I am overly appreciative that I got this chance to be in English II Honors.

This year, we have written a total of three essays. My strongest and favorite essay, is my fictional narrative. The fictional narrative is my strongest because it had a great central conflict and I got a chance to write freely and express myself. Also, I believe my teacher enjoyed reading it as well. My fictional narrative is called Hearts of the Ocean, and it is a love story about two teenagers from two diverse places. At the end a boy named Chad sadly dies and his girlfriend is so devastated that she dies shortly after him. It was not only fun to write, but it had very few grammar mistakes and it is deep and well developed.

Even though I have surely improved over this whole year, I still have flaws I would like to fix in my writing. One specific and important thing that I do need to improve is my voice in my writing. I do not know how to let my voice be heard so it is hard for the reader to understand where I am coming from. Due to this imperfection, I would be more than happy to be able to move on to English III Honors next year. I think that by remaining in the Honors program next year, I can work on my voice in my essays. Another problem that I have is my hook in my introduction paragraph. I do not know how to wheel my audience in with an exciting start. The beginning of my introductions, are mostly boring and it will not attract a reader's eye. Like I previously explained, being in my third year of English Honors will help me tremendously become content with the two most important things that I need to improve my writing.