Analysis Of The Poem ' I Was The Hardest Paper For Me '

While writing might seem like a simple task, it can be a daunting task for a lot of people. Sometimes it can be hard to express the ideas in your mind in the words of a paper. This results in a disconnect with what a writer may actually think. A great writer is one that can transform his thoughts into words perfectly. This is a craft that takes many years to perfect, which is why writing is troublesome for a lot of us. Many students also have had bad experiences with writing. Maybe they had a teacher that didn’t try to support them and their writing. They might not have ever gotten the help they needed and may feel that they are in a hole where their writing can’t get better. At this point, they just accept that their writing will never get better.

From writing thoughtful poems to research papers, I have experienced composing a diverse portfolio of literary analysis and criticisms throughout the school year. I started out the year writing minimally. By the end of the year, I noticed I was able to express my ideas and thoughts in a more clear and concise way on paper. Ultimately, each composition allowed me to widen my horizons as a writer and see how I could improve as a writer.

When presented with the question, “who are you as a writer?”, I was speechless at first. But after thinking about it, I realized who I am as a writer has been influenced by so many different sponsors throughout my life and there was not a short, concrete answer. Brandt mentions that “literacy is sponsored by people, institutions, and circumstances that both make it possible for a person to become literate and shape the way the person actually acquires literacy.” (Brandt 43) My attitude towards writing has been influenced by teachers, both negatively and positively, by my mother, and by academic assignments over the years. My answer to the question can only be answered by a narrative of my writing life. I have convinced myself that I am a terrible writer, and when presented with a writing assignment, I get anxious instantly. I see writing as a burden and a huge obstacle that gets placed in my life. Academic writing is not fun, but something I value due to the fact that we are a grade driven society. When writing, I write to the guidelines in order to receive points for the requested criteria. The reason being, I gave up on expressing my own ideas because I had been shut down by so many teachers throughout my education. I tried to write down what came to my mind and put my own twist on things, but that was not the “right” way to write papers. In order to make both my teachers and my grades happy, I wrote what they wanted to hear, and even then I was not to the level they

An assignment that I liked was when we had to do the persuasive speech. I really liked that assignment because I chose a topic that I really enjoyed and and also felt comfortable talking about it with other people. Because I liked the topic I was doing research on, I did not procrastinate like I usually do with other assignments. Through this assignment I also got to feel

It is hard for me to focus on writing. When you read my writings, it is very obvious within the first paragraph. My work is much better, and more enjoyable to read, when I write in a quiet place with few distractions. My teachers never really questioned my writing until 10th grade. I could wait till the night before a paper was due, crank one out in under an hour, and the teacher would use it for an example paper in class the next day. Ms. Yard, my 10th grade teacher, was the first to call my writing bluff. I learned that writing was much more then writing. In order to have a good writing piece, as explained in “What Writing Is”, you have to be able to write something that is

One assignment that I take a lot of pride in is my Pride and Prejudice essay. My assignment was quite remarkable because even though it was my first time using critical theory, I still ending up doing well on it. I specifically think my analysis with textual evidence and my explication of all the quotes was phenomenal and this assignment was the first time I fully mastered analysis with quotes. Quote analysis connects with possible skills I will use in my Biomedical or Biology major because many of the labs performed in science classes will require the same use of analytical skills to come up with conclusions. A vital part of a good essay is profound thinking that uses textual evidence to support its reasoning; the same skill will be necessary

We were told to write about a memory or experience we had with writing or reading. I found this difficult right off the gate due to my lack of enthusiasm of the class. Once I sat at home and ranted for a while, until the book and experience was chosen for me to start compiling for the day to day tasked that were demanded of me. As I was compiling I was seeing my thoughts of the rants slip into the paper that I was to turn in. After writing the paper I reread the work; astonished as I was I just laughed at the idea and believed this was just going to be unacceptable. Next day to my surprise it was accepted. As I read it aloud my peers and the teacher tore it apart in the class and gave feedback that they felt would help improve it. Shuffling through all the bits of ideas at night shaking and shifting the words around piecing the puzzle to create my paper. Clinching on the questions that arose with Faizon asking about repetitive sentences in the paper, along with Tori’s request for more description. Then having the teacher point out the words I chose to depict the descriptions at times were vague. Keeping those suggestions in mind and more I went through again and again to find the hidden errors with the heightened sight that was giving to me with others views among the forest of characters before me. Hunting out each mistake able

Attending Davidson Fine Arts High School, I was constantly tasked with the challenge of writing many papers such as literary analysis, rhetorical device analysis, and my least favorite poetry analysis. Each paper I wrote during high school felt the same as the last one simply because I never felt as though I pressured myself to progress or develop my writing process, since my papers were academically efficient. While writing in high school, I usually viewed a paper as a whole without trying to understand how I went from a blank screen to a 1000-word paper. In addition, a paper was never meant to question me as a writer or to display the most important thing I wanted to be shown about myself through my writing. However, upon entering English

When beginning any writing assignment, it can be a rocky start. It involves critical thinking and applying to your writing. First, you have to be skilled and be prepared in writing to get where you want to be. Therefore, my writing was complicated until I got into writing better than before. There comes a time when you have to start from scratch and work until you earn what you deserved. It was complicated to figure out what to write about, and to be precise. At first, I had adequate writing skills, but as I progressed through middle and high school, I have made vast improvements in my writing.

Throughout the course this semester I have learned a lot about writing and my personal writing process and skills. The assignments that stand out and helped me the most were the literacy narrative and the Fine Art essay. I think that these two were the most influential to my writing practice because they both involved topics and styles that I really enjoy writing about. The Literacy Narrative forced me to write in new ways and a new thinking practices that I didn't use before. And the Fine Art of essay was something that I enjoyed writing about and composing it in more of a poetic form and I liked being able to have the option of making my own.

During the four years I spent in high school, it was real hard for me to write an essay or just a simple paragraph. And it was all, because I couldn’t express what I thought or I just couldn’t write something down. Yet, when the teachers would tell me to write something down, I was always the last one to finish. Why? because I couldn’t think of anything to write. Or sometimes it was the timing that the teachers would give us to write that distracted me a lot from doing what I had to do. And since English is my second language is hard for me to write and think in English. And right now I still have that problem and it's real hard for me to write something down when a teacher ask me too. Also, another problem that I have is that sometimes

It is hard to have a past assignment you are proud of when you have not done half of them. I really liked the reading assignments the best. I like reading and have most of my life. Here lately I have slowed down on reading so I am glad that is an assignment in English IV. Sometimes I will read something wrong in a book or just flat out not understand it so I like the out loud discussions about the books to make sure I know what is going

The first time I wrote a college English paper was in 2012. This was one of the most horrifying times of my life. English was one of my first college classes and one that I was least interested in at the time. All through high school, I knew being a writer was never going to be my profession. However, I knew English was essential to learn for many reasons other than being a writer. In addition, I was always a strong student with a high GPA; higher than most students. Except when it came to English class; I seemed to struggle with every paper. As time commenced it began to wear me down and lead me to doubt my abilities in other subjects. Ultimately, I questioned myself being a good student overall. I had begun to wonder if, I was as brilliant

This class was very interesting seeing how it was only eight weeks of the semester. It was a little difficult for me to get started with the essays seeing how there was an essay due every other week. Coming to class every day made it very easy for me to learn the skills to main and keep the tasks in line to make sure I get everything done well and on time. The conversations in class on different ways we can express ideas helped even more in other class for me creating a clear thesis statement. Once the thesis statement, the paper would be able to write itself out with just me having to cite information.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.