My Interest At An Ice Rink

One place I feel at home is the ice hockey rink I go to everyday. I love playing hockey as much as I can and I know many people at the rink. Whenever I go I recognize someone, a former coach, or just even a good friend of mine. I usually go to the rink five to six times a day and enjoy every minute. I spend most of my time on the ice doing my drills, practicing, or even just fooling around with my friends at a fun stick time.

I enjoy exploring my mind in search for the perfect story to create for not only an assignment but for myself. When doing this, I tend to forget about the audience and write to myself rather then the actual audience. As well I find it extremely important to be passionate about the subject I am writing about, without that passion there is little to no interest in applying myself to the work I am doing. Some of my most memorable writing moments relate can relate to this. In grade three I can remember being told to write a biography of a mystical creature who had been casted down on to earth. This assignment for me was a starting point of my admiration towards creative writing, as I remember being completely enamored by the idea of recording my thoughts in order to bring to life a character. In addition, I understood my audience was my teacher rather then myself and wrote it to her. Although being passionate about this assignment paid off sometimes it can also produce the opposite effect. As I am in my first year of university the struggle to understand how much of yourself to pour into your work and how much to hold back I find challenging. Growing up I had been rewarded for being attached to my work but come first year I ran into trouble with

As a junior, I enrolled in an AP Language course. Going into the course I was aware of the research paper I would have to write at the end of the year. As a junior in high school, a six page research paper was nowhere near a simple task. Being that my public high school was new to the AP system, the teachers were learning as well as the students; enforcing students to work twice as hard outside of the classroom.

In my English 1010 class, I have learned to do a number of things through writing essays. I have written a Literacy Narrative, a Discourse Community Analysis, and a Writing Research essay. Firstly, I have learned to identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing. The purpose of the literacy narrative was to help me understand myself better as a writer (Jones 1). My teacher was the intended audience of the narrative. The genre of the narrative was non-fiction by cause of it being about my experience as a writer. The context of writing made my writing more interesting and more effective. Knowing those elements helps you to compose writing that is more effective due to you needing to know what you need to write about and who is receiving your writing. I displayed these skills by going into detail about my experiences with reading and writing through my life. As shown in the following sentence from my literacy narrative I shared how fun and exciting it was when my second-grade class received the opportunity to write a book, A Book of Future Astronauts, “Everyone in the class was truly excited to be writing our own book,” (Writing is Good).

Many different genres were introduced to me that I had never experienced writing in. Genres like, arguing a position with sources, proposing a solution, analyzing a visual and justifying an evaluation. Not only were the genres new to me, but every assignment had a different type of audience with different point of views. In the assignment, “Analyzing a Visual” I was writing to an audience that consisted of parents. I never addressed the audience writing in first person just because I kept the tone of the paper in first person plural, which made every issue a “we” problem. This helped put the audience on my team, so they could see where I stand and we could address the issue together. As a result of each essay having a different genre and audience, there were different tasks each time I wrote a paper. Starting with “Arguing a Position with Sources”, I had to pick an article from The Concise St. Martin’s Guide To Writing and decide rather I agreed or disagreed with the author and their position on the topic, while also backing up my own positions with sources from the book. Where in my assignment, “Justifying an Evaluation”, the objective was to pick a non-profitable organization’s website and state if I had a negative or positive claim after making an entire evaluation of the quality of the site. As a result of all of this, I now have the skills to successfully write in a variety of genres and to diverse audiences, so

Knowing the audience and genre of the topic one is writing for makes a big difference on how the paper is put together when it comes to the content, tone, and diction. This semester I was given an opportunity to write about a variety topics that that I have not been exposed to in the past. This got me out of my comfort zone when it came to writing the papers. When writing the visual critique we were given an advertisement and we has to basically take apart the advertisement and pick out the elements that would stand out to the audience it is targeting. So the first task for this writing was to figure out who the audience of the advertisement was addressing. Once I figured out who the audience was it was time to start to take apart the advertisement and choose what would stand out to those specific people to influence them into buying the product or service that is being sold. By going through this process i had to slow down and carefully analyze what was going on in

Writing has never been my strong suit, simply because I am not interested in the given topics. However, the times I really like to write is when I can talk about a topic I love talking about. In those essays, I can write non-stop, but as a college student, in my experience, “free write” topics are rarely given, which brings a weak spot to me. If there is no free write assignment, often times it is a topic I cannot relate to. I need to learn how to get out of my comfort zone when it comes to writing.

For the past couple of weeks we have been getting ideas and articles for our research paper. Finding a topic for a research paper is kind of difficult but it gets your mind going. I love researching about things I don’t know about and getting more information so maybe one day I can tell some one else about it. Research papers take a lot of time and effort so you can’t wait until the last minute to do it.

For example, I’ve lived with a chronic illness called Dysautonomia since I was eleven years old, so every chance I get to express my daily struggles I encounter and how I have learned to overcome and except them, has made me a better writer because when you are able to write on an issue that is not only very personal but also informative to the person who I sharing my writing with, it can push the way you think so that you are writing something that will catch the reader's attention. In contrast, I tend to struggle in my writing when I have very little interest in the topic, in which I don’t put in all of my effort to grab the reader's attention or put as many ideas I possibly can to create something worth reading. The way I compensate for my lack of interest is by first clustering together all of my ideas. Then I pick them apart the main ideas I have established, in which now all that is left to do is find supporting ideas to flow with the main ones. I’ve learned over the years, that the reader needs to know why I have or do not have a stance on an

When I think about writing, I feel intellectually ravenous toward the subject I am given. When I am tasked with a writing assignment I figure out how I feel about the subject and what ideas I could incorporate into my writing that pertains to the subject. I find it easier to write after knowing how I feel and doing research on the topic to gain a better understanding of what I'm supposed to be writing about. After studying the subject, I organize my paper and construct the layout of the paper to see how I want my paper to flow, and what emotions are to be portrayed in my writing. This part is very important to do because I am a horrible writer without knowing beforehand how I want everything to sound and flow. After the planning process, I

Trying to narrow down a topic to write about is hard for me, I’m unable to decide on a topic like others can because I tend to overthink things especially when the most important

Writing has been an outlet for many people, but writing has always been a difficult thing for me. I don’t remember my past experiences in highschool with writing, but I do remember my writing in college. I had multiple papers for my history class during my second year in college from having each paper being a different topic correlating to the subject in class. During my second year in college I didn’t take any english courses which made writing papers difficult. There are certain aspects of writing I find difficult which are having topics being assigned because my writing are limited in expression, whereas free choice topics come easier.

ANSWER: Define what your purpose is for writing, then decide on a topic to write about.

Throughout my writing experience there have been many papers that I enjoyed writing and many that I did not. The writing experience that is the most memorable to me is in my freshman year of high school at University High School in Orange City, Florida. I wrote a short story called "Speech to Roseanne". This story was about a young southern female teenager who was just starting high school. During the previous summer time she had a major dispute that happened between herself and best friend, Roseanne.This dispute carried over to the start of their freshmen year in high school. In the end, despite the fact that Roseanne tried to apologize for the comments she made about Mel Bell's family, Mel Bell could not get passed what her formal best friend had said.

A research paper is a writer’s point of view presenting a perspective by seeking to analyze, evaluate, or argue a position. Therefore, writing a research paper is more than just a collection or a sum of a writer’s sources. When writing a research paper the writer is examining all of the information on a given topic, including their own knowledge of that