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with my writing. I developed skills I didnt have before coming into this
class. Paper one, two and three were all challenging in different
aspects. A very useful writing technique I learned was that all essays
dont have to follow the five-paragraph essay structure that my high
school taught us to use for almost every assignment we ever did. I
always felt restricted and pressured to follow exactly that format and
now Im able to be open with my own ideas and body structure. In
doing this, I feel my writing sounds less forced and more
understandable. Another significant difference I came across was the
word count. Ive never written an essay that was more then three
pages until coming into ENC 1101. This alone was a big difference that
was hard for me to adapt to and meet the word requirement. I found
myself repeat things I already said in a slightly different way but it
meant the same thing. Also I never wrote four rough drafts before and
then a revision. This allowed me to visually see how Im improving and
that Im noticing the little errors that I could prevent. Without doing
multiple drafts and having the privilege to peer grade, the essay I
would of submitted would lack in many areas. Having students and my
teacher critique my writing in an encouraging but useful way helped
me further understand how I can improve. The one problem that stood
out to me while doing my revision for all three papers was that I dont
go in depth enough about a certain subject matter and left the reader