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Essay They Say I Say

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Essays. Whenever I hear that word during English class, I literally want to throw myself out the window. One thing I thought was beneficial about being in high school, my teachers though us how to write essays, they weren’t as strict. They held my hand through out the essays. It would be a big change now, being in college. I never been as creative as my fellow classmates, but I love writing. Writing about my feelings and problems down on a piece of paper, takes out the pressure I have. Writing a essay is way different, I thought so, because I always have trouble of getting the requirements right or my creativeness is not in there. As I grow older and advance more in high school, I started to see a pattern about my problems about writing essays. My grammar and punctuation are really bad but I gotten better, as long as I reread my essay over a few times, it’ll get better. One thing I learn from high school is you can’t do things alone, I always let my friends or teachers read it and give me feedback; this tip has helped me so many times and has gotten me those …show more content…

I would read out loud and try to read it as clear as possible, sometimes I would pretend to be the author, to make it more interesting. In “They Say I Say”, on page 175, it stated that we should not imagine the author sitting alone but imagine the author reading it in front of people. I feel like this would give us a better understand out what the author is telling us and trying to persuade us what they were trying to point out. Reading out loud helps me understand what the author is saying and also practice my reading skills. As I was stating in the last paragraph that we have to put ourselves out of our comfort zone, volunteering to read during class. I dreaded reading but that does not stop me from volunteering. During class presentations had helped me a lot and I overcome my shyness and become more

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