Have you ever been told to write a paper over something and despised the topic? I have and it happens every year. Never fails my teachers look at me and inform me that I have to write another paper over something that would give anyone a hard time to write about. Unless you are one of those kids who look at something and understand exactly what is happening without even having to pay attention in class. It baffles me how it happens. How can one person understand how to do something without paying attention to the instructor? I was told to write a descriptive essay. So I have decided to write about how much I dislike writing papers without a prompt or something to help guide my thoughts. Now that I am done rambling about this paper, here goes nothing. Everyone can write things differently. I write better when I am given something to help me keep my thoughts in line or a prompt of some sort. The way my thoughts go is that I need to read all the questions and figure out how I am going to answer each of them and what order to answer them in that will make the most sense to the readers. That makes it less stressful for me and I can prioritize everything that I am doing. When my composition teacher looked at me and said “You must write a descriptive essay over anything you want, but it must be a minimum of three pages”, I panicked. What do I write about, how would I even start the essay? It baffled me once again how they expect us to be able to do something like this for the
I have wrote many different kind of essay and paper. From a point of view of three person, first person, what you think this person is telling you, to writing how you feel, what changed your life to where do you see yourself in the next 10 years. I enjoyed this writing class and I know my teacher has enjoy my present. The only bad thing I can say is I HATE writing annotated bibliography and anything that have something to do with it,
I entered my first-year college composition course believing I was equipped with the knowledge, skill, and ability to write an efficiently researched and well-organized essay. In high school, I learned how to create the traditional five-paragraph paper with its introduction of a thesis, explanation of that claim through three sections riddled with supporting quotes, and conclusion that restated the author’s substantiated statement. This was the prescribed formula I had learned and grown accustomed to using for book reports, compare-and-contrast papers, and research essays and, from my bestowment of high grades and praise, I’d never thought to question or deviate from its pattern. When I attended my first college writing class, I thought
The only way you can become better at doing something is simply by continuing to work on your craft. Whether it is a hobby, an interest, or a profession, if you don't keep working, then you will remain complacent. A year ago, I thought writing was one of those things where I would just be complacent in. Not because I didn’t wanted to work harder at it, but because I thought of writing as one of those skills that came natural to you, or you did not have it at all. I always wanted my writing to improve but never knew how.
The most difficult part about writing an essay is getting started. Writers block is definitely a writer’s biggest fear. Hours upon hours spent drawing blanks, chewing away at the top of the pencil searching for ideas is certainly common for even the best writers. Even the author of Please Don’t eat the Daisies Jean Keer admits that she feels most inspired when she reads labels.
I use to think essays were just stupid, and that educators made students write them, because they were closeted sadists. But I wanted to continue my education, and in order to do that, I would have to write essays. So I decided to take an online course in essay writing. That was when essays were finally explained to me. You are, as the writer, suppose to be part of an academic conversation, adding on to the subject what you learned and believe. Sure it's not the same as story telling, you can't just make up stuff, you definitely have to know your stuff. You aren't there to amuse the reader, you first job is to inform, but that doesn't mean you have to bore them with blunt fact after blunt fact.
In all reality, I think I’ve maybe wrote ten actual essays in my life, if even that. I went to a small school that taught us more on how to act proper, respectful, and thoughtful rather than things that may benefit our future schooling. I do love that they taught us all of that because it made me a better person but on the other hand it did set me a few steps back when it came to school. I wish they would have made us write more and put more effort into our school because trying to learn it all when you’re in middle or even high school can be embarrassing. So, since I was too embarrassed that I knew nothing on writing I just always pushed it out of the way and hoped I’d eventually learn it on my own, which never happened.
Writing and reading for me started really young with me. I was learning to read and write before I was 2. My mom was teaching me and I had a Phonex person come to my house and would help. I was a year younger than almost everybody else in my kindergarten class. I was able to go into school younger because I scored high enough on a test I had to take. I was always reading books when I could when I was young which is why I was able to read bigger words than most kids my age could. I was able to read at a 4th grade level when I was in 1st grade. This all fell in place because my dad was always telling me to read and write when I had free time if I wanted to be better than everybody. When I was younger I always trying to be better
From time to time we all hear that dreadful five letter word; “essay”. Even though I am sure that we would all like to delete the word from existence, unfortunately, it will go on being an annoying part of high school. Many students hear this word and immediately begin to worry about whether or not they have a sufficient amount of time to write it, or if they can even write an essay good enough to get an acceptable grade on it. They struggle with not knowing how to write an effective essay. Most students really struggle getting across the idea that they want to tell their readers. "When I came to write my first assignment, I cried," says Daphne Elliston (from essay writing trips you up). "I just didn't know what I was doing." The writing in
All teachers wanted every essay to be structure the same way over the same topic. There was always a set amount of paragraphs we needed to reach, but there was also a word minimum and word maximum. Some people are better at condensing their words and are more concise and to the point, whereas it does take a bit more for some others to get their words across and begin molding together in a way that satisfies them. This made writing a challenge because if I didn’t reach the word count, I would be docked, even if it was a well written paper. I also wrote about uninteresting topics, like books I wasn’t interested in at the time or essays about whether or not kids should be allowed to have their phones out during class. The topics were never very flexible and I imagine they were just as monotonous to read for the teachers as they were for the students to write. I was afraid every in class essay I ever wrote would stick to this pattern. I began to lose interest in something I had once enjoyed doing.
Finally, every writer has their own struggles and own ways when it comes to writing an essay. For example, I have trouble starting my essays, I prefer writing in a quiet area, and I prefer writing an outline before beginning my
At the beginning of this Writing Composition course, I hardly had any expectations besides the excessive amount of essay assignments. Up until this course, I had only considered that this was any other ordinary writing class. My experiences with writing classes and essays have not been a fun one because I have always seen it as an annoying task. Recently, this narrow perception of mine has gradually deteriorated because of my experience in this course. I have realized that writing isn’t just another assignment, but it is a place where one can express their opinions, emotions, and experiences. This course has helped me develop my strengths like my development of thoughts and organization skills while being able to acknowledge my weaknesses like having trouble stating two positions and having biased opinions. Due to this recent realization, I have been able to get a better insight of my writing skills and a new perspective of writing classes.
As you now know, writing is not just something you do in an instant out pour of energy when the essay deadline starts to take shape as an impending occurrence. Such a last-minute procedure usually produces an awful methodical and unclear essay, because it destroys the scheme of writing as a process, and center of attention only on the product.
Reading and writing are two of the most important tools in my life, because without them I would not have an education. They form the basis of a class; for example, completing a lab in chemistry would not be possible without following a written lab procedure. These two skills are taught at such a young age, and as education advances students must continue to strive to reach a higher level. I can remember in elementary school, we were always pushed to reach the next reading level once we had successfully mastered the one we were on. It was always a competition for my sister and I to be at a higher level, I usually won. Even though I was excelling in reading it was the complete opposite for writing. It is something that has never come easy
Thus far in the semester, we have embarked on three previous essays, which all required strong arguments and analysis. Overall, my writing qualities such as concision, coherence, organization and language have greatly improved through the textbook readings, peer review, and writing. However, writing can always improve to more clearly argue positions on certain topics. Although my writing organization is the strong foundation for my essays, my lack of a diverse language style and my inadequate prewriting require improvement.
Writing doesn’t always come easy for me, considering that English is my second language, my writing is not the best. In order for me to get better, I took English AP courses in high school that encouraged me to stand at a college level and be prepared for essays such as this one. Although I know I need a lot more improvement for my writing skills, I am taking writing way serious than what I did my previous years. I am willing to learn and get the best out of this course. There are many reasons why I write, but the main reason is that “writing is everywhere” oftentimes is not my favorite thing to do, but definitively the most important and essential.