top of page

Timed Writing

Description 
This is an assignment my teacher, Mr. Jack gave me when I was in RWD class of an international College called NIC. In this homework, I wrote an essay about my ideas for indoor and outdoor activities within 25 minutes without any supportive tools such as Grammarly and Spell checker. I was on the indoors side and explained why I think indoor activities are better with some examples. Since it was a long time ago, I strongly feel my poor grammar, odd composition, and narrow vocabulary. There are no opportunities to write essays in a short limited time except for tests. It is good practice to do it faster. 

Reflection
One of the skills I could train from this is the time-management skill to write a legit essay in a short amount of time. That is because in that time, I organized my thoughts, wrote the answer and checked it again. Tim​ed writing helps me to find out how much I rely on spell checkers and how slow my writing speed. That is because I can not utilize the tools which I usually use and most of my assignments have flexibility with time. By identifying them, I can take an action to improve those things such as reading grammar books again and figuring out better brainstorming ways. 

Application
Since timed writing exercises can enhance writing speed and time management, it would help me in the future. That is because there would be a lot of situations or tasks similar to timed writing in a workplace. For example, when I was an office worker, my boss asked me to reply to numerous emails from customers. I needed to write many replies in a short time which requires speedy writing and organizing thoughts. I think timed writing is good training for that tasks. On top of that, timed writing would make speaking skills better as well because speaking is also what we can not use a spell checker. That I can make a great essay with a few grammar mistakes means that I can speak English properly and legitly. 

 

bottom of page