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Most Difficult Writing Assignment

January 17, 2007 at 5:18 pm (Uncategorized)

My most difficult writing assignment would have to have been writing about a play novel titled There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood.  I wrote about this novel last semester in English 1013.  It seemed not to be so difficult in the beginning.  I was expecting to write about what was going on in the play novel and about the different characters in the play.  The teacher surprised the class with introducing “illusions” and talking about which characters represented which country and why they were even in the novel to begin with.  As a class we discussed comma splices, parallelism of a sentence, subordinate and insubordinate clauses, sentence fractures, and so much more.  One way that I handled all of these challenges was that I made an assignment folder.  I took extensive notes on everything the teacher discussed and notes on things that I had never heard of before.  I then took every graded paper that the teacher handed back and highlighted every note that the teacher wrote in the margins of the paper as well as highlighted each mistake that I had made.  After I read over what I had needed to fix, I rewrote the full paper and fixed all my grammatical errors by reading my notes and correcting myself.  This experience has not helped me to improve my skills as a writer and call myself a pro,  but it has none the less improved my skills slowly and is still helping me to improve my skills today.  Just knowing everything from commas to knowing about parallelism has helped me to improve my skills as a writer.  I am what you call a “comma addict” and it is sometimes overwhelming if I can’t put at least one comma in every sentence.  Even though the teacher was very difficult on us as students, I have grown to appreciate her teaching the class what we needed to know and to still to have fun along the way with reading a great play novel.