Tyler 1

Gregory Tyler
Cramer
College Comp. Pd. 4
29 April 2022
Self-Reflection Essay

I would say that my biggest take away from learning about writing is learning to create a

better outline for writing essays. I now know the steps that I need to take that allow me to

efficiently write an essay. The biggest lesson that I learned about myself, and writing, is that I

know am capable of writing a well thought out essay that meets the necessary word count if I

apply myself and follow the steps that I have set to help me write an essay.

One aspect I believe that I still need to work on as allotting time for myself to write or

coming up with a set time that I will spend writing and follow through with that plan. Often, I

will tell myself times when I think I can work on an essay, but I will end up getting distracted

and have to cram writing into some other day where I do not have enough time to work on it. It

would be for the best of I wrote down the time I can work on my writing for a specific time and

stay true to my plan my ability to write will continue to get better.

My favorite assignment was the literary criticism essay. This was my favorite assignment

because I got to write about what my opinion was on a certain book. I do not read very much on

my own time; therefore, I think it was good for me to kind of be forced into reading a book that

way I could do my best on the essay I would have to write about it. It’s hard for me to stay

focused when I am reading a book that I don’t have any interest in, but I enjoyed the book I read

which made the assignment in general more enjoyable.

 Tyler 2

My process for writing an essay in the future would be first to start by researching my

topic and getting the necessary amount of information, it’s always better to have too much

information than not enough. My next step would be to read through my sources, come up with

topic sentences, and create a thesis statement. After all of that I would begin to write my essay

using my topic sentences and the necessary information I need to write the essay. Those are the

steps I would use to write an essay in the future.