I feel that I have improved on expressing my emotions, and personal thoughts when it comes to writing. As I am quite shy, and I also came from a high-school in which we spent our writing classes analyzing Shakespeare, the process of opening up was challenging. However, throughout my time in my seminar class, I have slowly learned to open up (particularly due to all the free-writes we did in class, in which I write down everything that comes to my mind, without putting too much thought into thinking about the structure, grammatical errors, etc.) This gave me a new level of confidence when it comes to producing a piece of writing, whether personal, or an important assignment the teacher would grade.
I have also learned to do this when reading and annotating a piece of assigned reading. Rather than only expanding on facts/ideas from a text, I now add another element to that: my own emotions. I express how a certain excerpt from a text makes me feel, the emotions it triggers, and even why this ‘quote’ is important to me.
An example of when I opened up in a piece of writing was for my Memoir, in which I told a story of my decision to get a nose piercing.
“I’m the type of person who has a fear of the feeling of regret. This has been the case for many years.”
