As most of us have experienced that freshman year of college is one of the toughest things to do. Either commuting or living away from home it can be hard and sometimes unbearable. But you just have to keep working hard and know that your family and friends believe in you and want you to succeed. That is the same kind of relationship that I have with writing. Not always knowing how to explain my thoughts and what I am trying to say writing as never really been a strength of mine. As I was reading the syllabus at the beginning of the year I said to myself “This can either help me or tear me down”. I was not going to let it tear me down, I wanted to overcome my writing problems and be the best writer I could be.
A writing that really stuck with me was when we wrote a professional biography. Before class, I had no idea what you had to write for the Bio. I learned so much how to write professionally and how text, picture, and your words can impact your readers. Just a font size and color and how your picture in the bio is can either have you considered for the job or put to the side. These are the little things that I would have never know if I never took this class and didn’t put in effort in the writing that we did in class. A professional biography will help me down the line for my future when I go to apply for jobs! This writing stuck with me because he was teaching me how to be a grown up in the real world and what I have to do to get noticed and potentially get closer to earning my job in my career.
This was my epiphany moment when I realized that writing should not be seen as a weakness but as something I can work on to help me down the road in my future. My writing blogs every week has made me a better writer. In the past, I never wrote every week and I was not used to the different types of writing and the rules of writing. Since writing the professional biography I have realized that I should want to write more so that I can become a better writer and learn it to become a better writer. If I didn’t put an effort into the class then I would have not have learned all of the writing tools that I have learned and probably not have had my epiphany moment!
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