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Reflection Paper Essay!

In all seriousness, English is the subject I strive to pass every year. Each year my English teacher pushes me to do my best even though they know this isn’t my best class. Then each year I spend a lot of time focusing on this class so I can pass and cheer the following year. The reason I strive to pass this class is because I don’t have a wide variety of vocabulary nor is my spelling or grammar acceptable for an eleventh grader. But having taken this class I feel I have improved my vocabulary and spelling over time.

I have noticed that my writing has changed by using a more appropriate range of words. I use new and bigger words I have learned this year. Having vocabulary quizzes has helped me expand on the words I use. When I use bigger words it makes the reader feel I am a more experienced writer. I would like to continue to improve my vocabulary throughout the years to get better grades on my English papers. My spelling has improved since the beginning of the year, because of the spelling quizzes we have each week. My spelling keeps getting better because I use the right form of the word in a sentence. Examples of this might be there, their and they’re. Some of the words we have had on our spelling quizzes I thought I was spelling right all along, but I was not. I have noticed this change because when we turn in rough drafts for the teacher to grade I usually get a lot of spelling corrections to do. Towards the end of the year it has decreased a lot.

I would like to think I have improved my grammar a lot for the most part. I have done this by using less commas in my paragraphs. I have started to use more types of punctuation marks. For instance I have started to use the semi colon and the colon a little bit more often. I rarely ever used these punctuation marks at all, because I did not know where to place them. This topic could also improve more because I still do get errors on rough drafts, but not as many as in the beginning of the year.

Throughout the year other writing techniques have also improved in my essays, like using more detail and organizing my paragraphs better. The reason I did not expand on those is because they still need more work than the others that I have explained. Even though my spelling, grammar and vocabulary has improved throughout the year, it could still use more improvement over time. Reading papers from English 10 has made me realize how much my writing has changed over two years. I know that slowly improving my writing will help me in the long run.