SWA 1: Previous Writing Experience.

In the previous semester we were required to write multiple essays with regard to multiple different theoretical texts and creative writings. Mainly, my writings consisted of finding the deeper meaning of an essay, and elucidating what the deeper meaning was truly saying. Aside from writings like that, I also did a lot of comparative essays. To compare two essays, I would mainly bring a theoretical text into conversation with a creative literary piece, and vice versa. With the writings I had in my portfolio I was quarrelling one of three things. First, I would dispute the deeper meaning of a literary piece. Secondly, I would argue what a theoretical text allows one to see within a creative literary piece. Or, lastly, I would debate what a creative piece knows that a literary piece does not know, and how that affects a person’s view of the two writings while comparing them. Personally, the greatest accomplishment writing wise for me was the last piece for my portfolio. I feel this piece showed how much I had advanced throughout the semester, whether it was constructing a quality essay, or getting my thoughts down on paper successfully. So, the last essay entailed all the skills I picked up and that is why it was my greatest accomplishment of the semester.

            With my last essay being my greatest accomplishment in my first semester of English in college, it also took the title of being my best writing ever, I believe. It was so good because like I previously said it contained all the writing skills I gained in the past and put them on display. My worst essay occurred my sophomore year of high school where we had to do in class essays. The was so terrible because I was super unprepared to write the essay, and only having forty-five minutes to write it, thus, I could not develop my thoughts as well as I would have like. So that was definitely a terrible experience. With those two experiences in mind, I conclude that the bad experience affected me more, mainly because it left a terrible taste in my mouth and I did not want to experience that again.