Through this quarter, I have learned a lot about writing essays. At first, I only knew how to write a little bit. Of course I had a lot of struggle with grammar and vocabulary, which is very common among immigrants like me. But my grammar teacher ^^(same teacher as reading and writing) really came through for me and helped me improve a lot. For vocabulary, I had to do a lot of research online and in dictionaries on my own time. I guess all that effort with trying to finish all my essays and blogs (excluding the exception of going to Alaska) really paid off because despite me getting ok grades I had lot problems as to studying and working wise. For one, as I have mentioned before I have 3 kids that are a handful. And because they are between the ages of 4-12, they demand my attention quite often and for those of you who have kids and know what I’m talking about, you would know how hectic it can be. Also, I used a lot of transition words like, first, last, next, and also which are pretty basic transition words. I had a lot of good ideas and thesis statements from the start so starting essays wasn’t a problem for me. As I’ve said again and again, one of my most difficult struggles was grammar. But of course with a little help from the teacher I managed to write good essays! And I think my organization helped a lot too. I had my papers and notes in one folder so I could easily find them. For writing, using basic paragraph listings, I managed to smoothly write my essays
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