I Am Proud Of What I Didn 't Know About Poetry And Story Let Alone Creating My Own

This section that I have chosen to write up consists of multiple short stories, literary circles, and writing. The students will first participate

Prior to my development of routine introspection and, consequently, maturation, I wrote not to encapsulate my ever-growing discomfort towards life, but rather to gain praise and acknowledgement for my efforts in writing. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I sat on the floor of my kindergarten classroom criss-cross applesauce-style as my teacher, Mrs. Glickman, asked the class to write a short story and to provide an illustration to accompany it. With smudged and disorderly speckles of graphite sprawled across my paper, I managed to write a story in my signature chicken-scratch handwriting. The story was relatively simple, about a girl who had thought she was a hideous monster until she looked into a river reflection and realized she was beautiful. I even drew (or attempted to draw) a beautiful girl for the second part of the assignment. At the next school assembly, Mrs. Glickman granted me a sky-colored paper, reading “Award of Recognition: Kiana Lucin, for her creative writing and exemplary drawing skills.” From this point on, I prided myself in writing, and excelled

This year I have learned a lot from College Writing, this class has taught me a lot about my own writing and what makes a good essay. I have learned a lot about myself as a writer and as a person throughout the course. In this reflection of the past semester I will be going through my past papers and talk about what I liked and how I could’ve made them better. I will also be going through the activities that have shaped my writing the most. Hopefully, I will be representing how I have grown as a writer throughout the year because of this class. Before taking this class I was already relatively confident in my writing abilities and was excited to take the class. Now that the course is completed I am even more confident in my writing because of all the new techniques and helpful tips I learned.

It was my first writing class as a college freshmen and I did not know what to expect, like whether or not the class would be harder compared to what I took in high school or even if I would enjoy taking class. But as soon as day one turned in into week one, than soon week fifteen I felt more comfortable in the class than what I have probably felt in the beginning. I felt like I could write anything my professor threw at me, because through writing I could express my individuality. It gives me the freedom to express myself through words, and write about things I felt passionate about writing about. I felt as though I writing because I wanted to, and less because I was assigned to do so.

Ever since I was young, English has always been one my least favorite subjects throughout school because I did not enjoying writing. Writing always frustrated me because it seemed so time consuming. But as I grew older I came to the realization that writing papers are not as hard as we set it out to be. If you formulate a method to how you will complete the paper, and follow through with it, it makes the entire process so much easier. For example, for all the students who procrastinate with their assignments until the day before it is due. Think about all the time and effort you have to put fourth to complete an entire paper in one day. Imagine how much less effort it would take to simply start working on the assignment at least four days before the required due date. You would only have to spend an hour or two a day to complete the entire essay. All you have to do is develop a plan as to what you want to accomplish each day and a writing strategy to following while writing. Throughout my English courses I have assembled my own writing strategies, and the first step to writing a good essay is pre-writing.

Hi, I'm Rachel. I've been writing since I was seven years old, and mainly focus on short stories on numerous topics. The reason why I've joined this class was to sharpen, and home my current writing skills, and to be able to grasp a more intuitive inspiration for my ideas.

Course selection day is one of the hardest decision making days of the school year, especially when knowing that the courses an individual picks for the fourth year in high school can make or break one’s success in the future. After reading The Writers Craft course description I knew it was a class I belonged in. Writing is one skill that is used in any path taken in life. Whether one becomes a doctor or teacher it is always an important strength to have to be successful. Since I strive to achieve success in my future, I hope I can convince you that I deserve my seat in writer craft by telling you who I am as a person, why I want The Writers Craft credit and what my goals for this course are.

For my creative portfolio I developed a short story, two poems, and converted a long standing idea into a partial script. During the analysis of these pieces I will discuss how my writing have improved over the course and how that has influenced my work, as well as how I have responded to feedback from peers and my tutor. Additionally, I will discuss what literary techniques were adopted and why.

Sophomore year, I met my favorite teacher. I was unsure of how I would like the class because I don’t typically enjoy the classes everyone loves going to. However, Mrs. Moore relit my passion for writing and by making it interesting and explaining different ways to make it better. I learned creative and subtle ways to make my essays and speeches the best they could be. She has taught me ways to improve my writing I will use until my very last paper.

Attending my first day of class I was a little unsure about how valuable it would be. I questioned whether it would be a wasted course. Upon meeting my professor Mr. Wilbert I knew I had interest in this class. I have taken many English classes but never with someone as passionate or as talented as Wilbert. I decided I was going to put my best foot forward and in turn become a better writer.

I took this class in order to learn how to write creatively. I have always been writing, because I enjoyed it, but I did not know if I was doing it ‘correctly.’ I did not know how to shape my ideas and thoughts into the form of a story. Also, I thought what I wrote had to be perfect on the first attempt, but I have learned from this class otherwise. Never having the opportunity to take writing classes or art classes in my youth, I thought that if what I created was not perfect, I just did not have the talent for it. My ideas entirely contrast with those of the younger version of me. I took this class because I could learn and work at it. I enjoyed the short story collection Shadow Show written by numerous writers in honor and in celebration of Ray Bradbury. In one of the writer’s

Upon entering this writing course, I had thought I wouldn’t be a better writer than I was. I know my writing habits still need improving, but I can tell that I have improved since I graduated from high school. You can only go up in progress, you only fail when you stop trying. I keep that saying in my head to help push myself to become a better writer. In time, being able to write in a proper way will carry out the result I want.

I walked into my first day of 6th grade English class greeted by a young woman with a voice that easily filled the entire classroom. I listened intently as my English teacher introduced herself and enthusiastically described all the creative assignments that were awaiting us. As the bell rang, signaling the end of class, I excitedly thought to myself that this was going to be a great teacher who challenged me. After all, writing was one of my passions as evidenced by the endless notebooks and scraps of paper that blanketed my bedroom. As the first few days unfolded I was optimistic and excited. That was until the work began.

I feel that I have evolved as a writer in unimaginable ways. I always had such a difficult time conveying my feelings or sharing them with others; this semester changed that. I started out by writing poems that were very impersonal and lacked depth and emotion. As days and months passed I would remember feelings I had experienced and use those as inspiration and use the numerous techniques learned through this class to form those feelings into a poem. I had dabbled in writing poems prior to taking this class but I had never actually sat down and written one. Once I wrote my first poem for this class I was hooked; I couldn’t stop. I would wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and scribble it down to turn into a poem the next day.

I know that I don’t say much in this class. Mainly because I have nothing to say, but today I do. I decided to write this speech on how I’ve grown up and how I changed as a person after taking this class. Being in this class has helped me grow as a writer so now I can explain what I feel. When you understand that everyone is their own person and you try to think of them for who they are, you’ll start to grow up as the person you want to be. I've learned many things in this class but one thing that sticks out is that you can’t really start a paper knowing the ending of it. So I’m going to start off with one of the assignments, A day in the life. Then after I will write about whatever comes to my mind. Also what I’m about to read is in third person so whenever I say “he” I am referring to myself.