Cheers to Writing 140

Writing 140 has definitely been a learning experience from the first time I stepped foot in the class. I must admit that I was nervous about how I would perform knowing that college writing was completely different from high school writing. That is why the first concept that I needed to grasp in order to have successful papers was developing a concise and focused thesis. I realized that my thesis was the driving head of my papers, and if my thesis was not appropriate then my paper was ultimately suffer.

One of my biggest struggling while taking the Writing 140 course was coming up with a topic and ideas for an essay. Throughout the course, we spent time testing invention strategies which included a “fact/idea list”, and a cluster web. After trying out a few of the invention strategies, I found that the cluster web worked the best for me. When I sit down to write an essay, a number of ideas cloud my mind. Therefore, by jotting down ideas and connecting them together using a web cluster, I am able to organize my overwhelming ideas.

Blogging about my topics in Writing 140 has inspired me to pick up writing as a hobby. Now, I keep a journal where I write about my daily life, issues or topics I feel strongly about, or simply what is on my mind. Writing 140 has definitely shaped my writing for the better.