Revision Letter

Laura Laroche

Professor Young

ENGW 1101

1 May 2015

Revision Letter

            English has never been my forte because writing never came to me that easy. I never had a strong desire to learn grammatical errors, or even try to acknowledge the fragment errors I would make while writing. What I had learned in the past years of taking English is what I have brought with me to college and I certainly did not think I would need to improve my writing more than I already had done. But once I began English with Professor Young, I gradually started to change my writing techniques and enhanced certain areas that needed improvement to a more structured version than I previously knew. Throughout my spring semester’s English course, I definitely picked up tons of useful skills that I could put towards my writing process. Not only did I gain a better understanding of how an essay should be formatted, but by learning how I can redefine my writing, I began to enjoy the process much more because of the positive feedback I would receive.

            Like Professor Young stated in class, “clear writing equals good writing”, that the only way to succeed in writing an essay is by writing clearly and following the steps along the way to make sure what is being written makes sense or else it would not be understandable or just grammatically wrong. Whenever I got my essay back, there was always a lot of supportive feedback given to me to make sure I understood what flaws I had made and that they needed to fixed to achieve a higher grade. The feedback that was given allowed me to revise my writing in many different ways by using methods like the sandwich, SEER, or RENNS and to know better for the upcoming essays that were going to be assigned. Those methods that I have used had greatly improved my knowledge on how most formats, like providing quotes, needed to be placed in the essay without being mistaken. I will no doubt be using those types of procedures for many more essays to come my way because I found it much easier to use while writing. Having those kinds of quirky rules for writing in certain manners makes me appreciate writing a lot more because it becomes more comprehensible instead of being confused, then winging it, and receiving a low grade.