Topic > What Makes an Effective Writer and Student - 821

This essay will describe and analyze my previous experiences in the course, in relation to what I have learned about myself as a writer and student. The thoughts I had before starting the course were different than they are now, but the important issue is to explain how they have evolved over the last three months. During the four assignments carried out during the course, I identified the fundamental requirements I need to write and learn effectively. First, I identified the ideal environment I need to write my essays. Secondly, I have found that day and night have a huge impact on the quality of my work and why it is easier for me to learn in the morning. In the end, I identified the best way to develop the planning phase of my works. When I started the course I simply had the experience of being a writer in high school. This was the first reason I thought I needed to explain the fact that I'm a night writer. Back in Colombia, the school day ended at four in the afternoon. Then I arrive home around five in the afternoon. I was having dinner at the time and when I finally went to write my essays it was already dark. So I enjoyed the time I was alone in my room watching a movie while I organized my ideas and wrote essays for school. After joining HULT, I was able to decide when to write. I felt that a lot was happening during the day and that if I stayed alone in my room I would be wasting precious learning time. When I finished a lesson, many people asked me what I was going to do next. My friends always invited me over for a beer, lunch, or a game of pool. Of course I always accept these types of invitations. When it came to writing an essay, I could concentrate after 6pm, when I was sitting... in the middle of the paper... playing free writing, I experienced something that had never happened to me. At first I found it useless but then I applied what MacMillan M. & Clark D. talked about, the writing block. This reflection was made after two days of reflection and fifteen minutes of free writing on a writing pad. For all the class essays I only take ten or twenty minutes to put all the ideas in my mind into writing pad. Then I spend another 40 minutes organizing the order of ideas on the computer. And I finally get to the end of my essay finishing the last details in 1 hour. Writing an essay at the beginning of the course took me four to five hours. Now I can do the same job in two or three hours. Writing block was the most important discovery I made during the course. Works Cited MacMillan M. & Clark D. (1998). Learning and writing in consultancy. London: Sage