Writing Reflection

I was never pleased with my writing in the past, always eager to hold back my essays from class critiques, now I welcome it.  I can now feel proud of my work and am generally pleased with my current level of writing skill.

I feel that might writing has greatly improved in almost every sense of term "improvement".  Looking back at essays from 10th grade, even early essays such as my "Confederates in the Attic" piece, I have noticed that I was a very bad writer.  But looking at my Ampersand piece, I have noticed that it is of much higher literary quality, which is odd.  What happened from the beginning to the end of junior year? Something must have happened.

I underwent very intense yet valuable writing rehab during this year in Randy Scherer's 2009-2010 Junior Humanities class.  I have learned to use many literary devices such as something entitled "The Loop" which starts off with an idea and at the conclusion brings the audience back to that very idea.  It has been very helpful in essay writing, but more/so in more persuasive essays where you keep bringing the reader back to your thesis, almost like alliteration. 

Come Ampersand Exhibition night I was actually eager to show off my article, rather than keeping to myself.  I find that this is either a sign of great improvement or great psychological changes to myself, either way I think my writing has gotten much better.

The future of my writing lies within college;  I plan on spending the summer working on my college application essays and what not, trying to pump out my greatest writing work, even surpassing my Ampersand piece.  But after that is completed, I want to pursue a Writing & Publication minor if I attend Emerson college in Boston, which offers that.  I also need to stick with the literary devices if I ever want that to happen, because I don't want my old past writing habits and strategies to creep up on me again, I want them to stay in the "past" in emphasis.  I think the better my writing becomes the more I can actually improve my actual education.