Advancement as a writer

My development as a writer has really accelerated in this semester. With writing three very long papers, I was able to see myself as a writer develop throughout the length of these papers. I think the most important point as to why I have developed as a writer from these papers was that I was able to write about topics that I found very interesting as opposed to old books that I found extremely boring. This is something that allowed me to actually enjoy what I was doing while writing and to enjoy the research I did for my paper. Another technique used in the class that really helped me develop my writing was the individual discussion sessions about the different research topics. These helped me get a feel for how good of a topic mine was and how much research I could really do. I also thought that a lot of the videos shown in class were helpful to giving us a good feel as to what the research paper is about. A good example of this were the videos on the goo vs. prickles. Overall I am very happy that I took this class as it has helped me advance as a writer immensely.