Do You Think Your Writing is Good? What do you struggle most in class? Most of my friends struggle with Math or Science. It was not for me but with my English class. It was my third language and I could not write well with essay or paragraphs. My writing experience was in fifth grade English class and the teacher go easy on me, my writing process started in first day in middle school, ESL (English as Second Languages) teacher helped me through high and low in my writing process. The first major writing experience was fifth grade English class, when the teacher went easy on me with writing. When I first came to America, I could no speak English. I only knew how to say such as what is my name, where I live and where I am from. Since, my teacher knew that I did not know much of English so she lets me copy of others student who sat beside me. It was two weeks came and I did not learn much. I barely passed the class. After Summer has passed, my writing process started in my first day of middle school. My first of school in English class was my nightmare. The teacher told all students to write a paragraph about what we did during the Summer. I wrote a run-on sentences on the paper. I try to write it with all …show more content…
Her name is Terri Hunnell and she had a great personality. I had three class with her out of seven period. She helped me learn new words, fix Grammar,, and write sentences. I was a slow learner and I only learn most by visual and hand-on work. She was very patient. When I do not understand others class assignments, she helped me to make sure I know what to do. I learned a lot during middle school. She taught me that of practices makes a difference and I can be successful. My parents support me and told me to keep trying my best. My mom told me that “giving your all was the best you can do even if I don’t succeed”. I am very thankful for their
It is essential to understand that classes taken in grade school do not give students a full understanding of each subject. With the topic of writing, there will always be a new lesson to learn, an aspect to improve, or a differing way to explain. Author Craig Vetter states in Bonehead Writing, “This is your enemy: a perfectly empty sheet of paper. Nothing will ever happen here except what you make happen.” Each story, essay, or response comes from a writer’s experiences. With each attempt at a new piece comes an underlying story of emotions the writer is facing. Each person’s writing is unique and the ideas people have are related to their past experiences and what they believe to be familiar with when deciding which writing style to use. As a high school student, I have learned many things about writing that helped me become the improved writer I am today, but the most essential advice I have received is practice makes perfect. Although there is no actual perfect way of writing, I have discovered that each essay I write, my writing improves. It is easier to spot mistakes, find areas to improve, and ponder elevated word choice to use.
While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.
During my English courses throughout high school, I learned many things from writing simple journals, research papers, and a single term paper. During high school, I was laid back and procrastinated for much of my work. During the latter part of high school when I wrote my term paper my senior year, I found out that working a little every night writing a few paragraphs helped me out greatly. I was not just throwing something together just to get the grade and the paper finished. I spent time on the paper and
She also taught me to finish something if I started it, and that carried over to my reading. If I start reading a book I always finish it and do my best to understand it. So, she instilled what I know about reading and she influenced the way I read. She always told me, when I was younger, to pronounce my words right so that when I get older I would pronounce my words right. All that she has said to me and taught me when I was coming up as a younger child helped me get to the level of reading I am on today and also to the level of understanding I have of all the words I read. Without her encouraging me in this way I would have had problems understanding things that I read and wouldn’t be as smart as I have grown to be. I am very thankful of how I was brought up as a kid.
I used to consider writing as tumble words from your mind, write, read it through, fix minor mistakes, and done. However, you rarely get successful. The truth is many students, including myself, struggle with starting to write a word, or getting stuck in the middle without knowing the main point of the writing. After completing English 101, I can explain the writing process, evaluate the strengths of my essay, and identify my weaknesses.
I would honestly have to say my writing is okay its not the best just like my reading its not the best but its fear and I know I have to keep trying and trying just so i can be better and my writing and reading can be clear so a person can understand what I'm reading and what my writing is about. I feel like I struggle the most in and I picked these to because I know it's a lot I have to improve on with the two subjects but I know if I practice and practice I'll be better at my
Also, I was a highly involved student. I participated in two sports and was a part of six different organizations. Two of those clubs being math team and science team. If I did not participate in those two I could not do any other organizations. She told me "academic clubs are good my child, you will be on that team". I studied every night for two hours both subjects to make sure I was ready for competitions. Before I went to bed my mother quizzed me and I would not dare to get a question or problem wrong.
She has advised me for all of my schooling years. She has taught me about a good work ethic and focus. She does not accept anything but the best and this pushes me to try my hardest. The best thing my mom does for me is read over my papers, and makes sure they are the best work I can do. When she does this she tells me the mistakes I have made, but does not tell me where they are. I have to find them myself and by this I learn how find my mistakes on my own. These are many skills my mom has taught me throughout my schooling years. My mom also makes me feel comfortable with my status at school. She realized that I was new to KO, and that the workload would be much bigger compared to last year. She always tells me to take one thing at a time rather than looking at all my work. This has definitely helped me throughout this year because I have been able to focus on one thing at a time and do it great, and then look at another assignment and to it just as good as the last. If my mom would have not given me this advice I would had rushed through all of my assignment, and not taken the time to understand them. Thanks to all of my moms mentoring I have been able to succeed in school, and enjoy doing it
Previous to taking English 101 here at AW; in high school I took English classes my freshman and sophomore years. I did well in those, I remember getting a B for each one of those. The English classes that I have taken in the past have had the usual writing process; brainstorming with a chart or table, writing a rough draft with a thesis in the introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs that give detail and a conclusion. Then, we would
I believe it is important for any student who wants to do their best in a class to take a moment to evaluate their own work to determine the rate their writing is progressing and how they can continue to advance their writing. When I looked through my own work I asked myself “what have I learned this semester?” and “what do I still need to learn in order to improve my writing?”. Answering both these questions will help me with my last step of my self-evaluation, developing a plan to learn new skills.
she stopped going to school because at that time there was no school in refugee camp. However, she always encourage, motivate me and my sisters to focus in school so that we don’t have to work under a bad condition. My freshman year was academically bumpy, but then I started to realize that the schools here in The United States are much harder than my former school in Thailand. I did not understand the lectures so eventually, I was behind the lessons. I felt like giving up because It was difficult when I know very little English. My teacher called my mother because I was behind in the class. One day, she called me into her room. “your teacher called today. I know it is hard for you but I want you to excel academically and live in a better life than me and your father. Please, do not give up on school and try harder. I know you can accomplish this road”, said my mom with a smile on her face and the gave me a hug. That night, I gave a thought to what she said and decided to try harder than I used to back in Thailand because I gradually began to see education as a means of fulfillment and as a path toward making a living better than life in Thailand. Today I am very close to earning a high school diploma. Getting a high school diploma is not as easy as it seems but indeed putting effort, hard work and
She taught me important lessons and one of them was how to be an independent female. she told me if I wanted to be successful, college will lead you the right path that you need to be at. Whenever she told me stuff like this, it would help and encourages me a lot. I have never been in any hard situation in my life and that’s because my mom is always by my side. Whether she’s away from me or not, distance will never separate us no matter what. she is my inspiration and he keeps me motivated to get my degree heart Surgeon, my dream job.
Walking into English classes I was always nervous, especially when I was in Kenya. In Kenya, nobody enjoyed the English classes due to its rules. English has so many rules that it’s so confusing for a person who is not his first language. To me English was the hardest class I have ever taken in my life. Considering writing was not my strongest suit which increases the loathing I had for English classes. Sometimes I also felt sleepy whenever the professor comes to class to give a lecture due to its tame. There was a time our professor assigned us to write an essay without providing us with enough guidelines which was huge challenging for me. I did not have any idea how to write an essay and with less information I was really discouraged. With all the discourages and challenges I have come across I always became stronger and stronger in writing. Finally, I got an opportunity to come to United States to further my education. The education in the United State was so different and seemed to be easy. Going to college in the United States was the most amazing experience that I ever had for long time. The colleges in the United States was organized, each subject was taught by different professor from different locations. I took English placement test and went straight to the class I was assigned to take. In my first class, I had to write an essay about Autobiography Narrative, which was painful to me there are few reasons I did not like the Autobiography because I had to talk about what happened to me in my past life and I was a reticent person. On one hand, everything seemed to be difficult. On the other hand, my professor made everything very easy for us. She gave me three secrets to succeed in writing to achieve my full potential, academically. The secrets are the following, writing a thesis statements, writing an outline before writing an actual essay, and improving my writing style every day.
It can be good and it can be bad. It can help fight our cause or it can help cripple our relationships. For many people silence does both. On the other hand, it can ruin relationships with the people closest to us. There are some people that find it peaceful and there are people that find silence a strait jacket around the mind. At the same time, most of the people that fall under the latter category feel like they do not have a choice or don’t know how to express themselves vocally resulting in an endless silence. Around them is a world of voices and all they can contribute are whispers. On the bright side, the people that feel like they are silenced now have a new way to be able to connect with the world without ever having to physically speak. Gone are the times where a face to face conversation was needed to make new friends or even find a lover. There’s no need to physically go out and interact with people to be able to get a point across or to express our political and or religious beliefs. The people that leave in fear from their partners now have an easier way of communicating to the world and seek help. Ironically enough, technology has helped us quiet our silence through the wonderful invention that is social media.
The first lesson she ever taught me was to always forgive. I will never be able to thank her enough for showing me that forgiveness is one of the most important things in this life. I would thank her for always being so kind-hearted and so patient. I remember always going to her house after school and she could always tell when I had a bad day. When she asked what happened, I would tell her step by step and when I would finish, she would just sit there and smile at me. After a few seconds, she would ask if I was still upset. Every time I told her yes, she would explain to me why I shouldn’t be. It’s a