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Jack Goaley

Composition P.3

Mrs. Townley

7 May 2018

Grown as a Writer

I’ve come a long way in terms of writing since my freshman year. Before high school, I

wasn’t really good at writing essays because everything was hand written, so my grammar and

how the essays would flow, weren’t as good. I was so worried about answering the questions for

my essay, that I didn’t really focus on my voice, ideas, and the overall organization of the essay.

It was at times, really hard for me to get across what I was thinking in my head, down on paper. I

got so frustrated with answering the questions to the essay, that I wouldn’t put much thought into

any other aspect of the essay. But throughout my high school career, I’ve grown as a writer

because we’ve become to use computers to type essays and the computer’s have great software

that helps correct our grammar and our overall essay. It really took off starting in my junior year

because that is when I really began to type a lot of essays. In the beginning, it was really rough

because I wasn’t use to typing that many essays. But with practice, I’ve really grown as a writer.

Before, I would just type what comes to mind and not really worry too much on how it would

sound. But now, my voice and ideas have really developed because I type what comes to mind

and then read it back to myself and see how it sounds. When it comes to organization, I’ve

grown to really type my essays chronologically and add information as needed. With word

choice, my vocabulary has really expanded because I’ve been exposed to so many different

words and how they would better fit into a certain sentence. Thinking back on this semester and

all the essays that I typed, I believe my best essay was the personal statement essay. It was the
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time when I really put a lot of effort into it because the topic of the essay was very important to

me. I had come to take things for granted in my life and I wanted to share the mistakes I had

made and hoped it would help prevent my readers from making the same mistakes. I felt that the

organization from the essay was great because I talked about what I had done in the past and then

would talk about how I’ve tried to correct those mistakes. Going about my essay chronologically,

helps the reader so that they don’t have to think too much when reading my essay. I can only

hope that what I have learned throughout my four years of highschool will really help me in

college. From a kid who was horrible at writing essays in grade school, to a young man getting

ready to graduate. I can proudly say that I’ve grown so much as writer throughout these four

years. I hope younger kids struggling the same way I did in grade school, will be able to learn

from this and apply it to their own life.