As an academically mediocre student, I never learned very well from teachers, since nothing they were teaching me ever grabbed my attention, unless it was related to my immediate interests at the time. I spent years 1st to 5th grade never enjoyed the writing process, since my mind was always a inattentive place, because of this I never caught onto things like punctuation or proper grammar, causing most of my written assignments to be nothing more than linguistic vomit on paper. It was not until 6th grade rolled around, that my best friend at the time, Catalina, had sent me a link through text. It was to a website with too many words and not enough pictures, so it did not really occur to me what she had sent until I was lying in bed and I finally opened the message backup. I skipped the page, and I noticed it was piece written about characters from a show we both enjoyed, and as I read this story, I noticed how poorly written it was. In the back of my mind, I told myself “Even you could do better than this”, and I felt the slightest burn of confidence in the pit of my stomach, a feeling I had never felt before.
That night I opened up the wordpad program on my Mother’s old computer, and got to writing. The first thing I had ever written and enjoyed was a awful and generic FanFiction about my favorite book series at the time “Maximum Ride”. I was there for hours, and watched the sun peek over the trees of my backyard, as I wrote until I couldn't anymore. I saved it without
As a writer, I find myself getting lost. Typically, when I go to start writing I hit a brick wall. It’s as if all my thoughts suddenly escape my mind and I draw a blank. It takes me forever to conjure up some form of a thesis and then takes even longer to figure out what I should write to support it in a way that makes sense. Then, attempting to find a way to organize my ideas and put them together in cohesive paragraphs seems like an impossible task in the moment. It is not uncommon for me to get flustered and just throw something down on the paper because I get anxious seeing how much work is left to do. If I end up going back to read it over prior to submission,
Write down for both your writing - as well as for your audio-visual skills what your strengths and weakness are. Be concrete and detailed. Give evidence / arguments why you think this is so. Below some sentences are given which may help you on your way.
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” Lines like these were always running through my mind when I got involved with my school’s journalism program. It was my sophomore year, and I remember walking into school with my usual, and sometimes excessive, self-confidence. This inflation, I think, was rooted in my new position in the school’s newspaper, editor in training. Hitherto, I was just a reporter and I gained a lot of experience in journalism. “How can I make this story as interesting as possible for my reader?” I would ask myself. I wrote quite a few. From short stories about espionage, to a quick tip on how to heal a sports injury. My experience grew pretty broad, and I was eager to use it all in designing the newspaper as head editor. However, amidst my enthusiasm, there was a failure I didn’t see coming.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been writing, both inside and outside of class. While I haven’t always been drawn to reading classics, I have spent a lot of time reading in general, and it always seemed to encourage me. I was easily inspired by the words on the pages coming to life in my mind, and even more fascinated by the fact that the image almost certainly looked different to every individual who took the words in themselves. I’ve always enjoyed being able to paint images in the minds of others and intrigued to learn just how much different it must look to each person who took in the words that I wrote. Did they look different to other people, or did everyone have the same general idea? How close were their own images to mine?
English has always been an awkward subject for me. Growing up in a Russian speaking household, I always felt at a disadvantage compared to other students. Throughout high school and the start of college I chose to stray away from writing by pursuing a majority of math and science courses through engineering studies. I despised writing essays and I never enjoyed spending my time reading and writing. As someone who claims to be a logical thinker it was hard to translate my thoughts and opinions into writing. I tried escaping English any chance granted to me.
During my junior and senior year of high school at Leslie County I found a reason to enjoy writing and have fun with the thing I wrote. Every class until those years was either way too boring for me to pay attention, or the teachers really didn’t seem to care what you wrote down, they would just grade and move on it seemed. I never had a teacher who would actually look at what I wrote down and come speak to me about it, whether to praise the stuff I wrote down or to help me with small problems in my assignments. Expecting another failure of a class to sit through, I was already dreading English that day. I didn’t really know what this teacher was all about, then I met. Joel Brashear was the English teacher, he hadn’t been there very long I
I’ve done multiple academic writing throughout high school and couple more years in college. Half of all the writing I’ve done in high school has been in my native language; Amharic.
At the beginning of the 2017-18 I had many writing oriented struggles that stopped me from writing to the best of my abilities. One of the many speed bumps I encountered was that I made bad choices when it came to the words I chose when writing my essays. During the course of the school year I have learned to improve the way I write papers by using better words. I have also learned that I should look up synonyms of words that don't fit or sound right in my essay to make everything sound better. The words I use in my essays also lack precision. I have improved on this by searching for the definition of words on the internet. If the original word in a sentence does not match my thought, I will look for a new word that matches the meaning that
When it comes to writing, my experience is fairly decent. I have been a writer for the majority of my life when starting back when I was much younger. I was required to write a small story for a handwriting class, however, I got so hooked into the story that after the class was over, I rewrote the story in a much larger scale. I would continue writing small stories and poems for the next few years of my life before I decided to take on my biggest project yet.
As a writer, I would say that I’m a very personalized writer. I like to put a lot of my emotions, experiences, and opinions into what I write. I do my best to find something to appreciate in everything I read. For starters, I will begin with my strengths. Whenever, I write, I plan what I’m going to write before jotting words down. This method is very effective when writing essays. With writing, I’m very detailed and I get straight to the point. I want to get my readers and audience absorbed quickly. Also, I have plenty of weakness. Manytimes, I wrongly assume that the reader is able to understand my thoughts, while the various points of my argument are actually not expressed clearly. Another point which I need improvements is my English. There
Living your life without making a difference in anything, isn’t really a life lived. In order to make positive contributions in the world and to feel that our life is valuable, we all need to decide on a direction. When we are in primary school, we are asked about what we want to be, when we grow up. Some kids answer that they want to be a firefighter, scientists, doctor, or an engineer but as we grow up, our interests start to change and they don’t stop changing. When I was young, I wanted to be a firefighter, because for me, putting out fires was an exciting thing to do.
I’m a sophomore student who studies in W. P. Carey School of Business with the communication major. It’s quite tough for me to adjust the different languages and cultures in ASU, but I survived. The Simpsons encourages me to learn and feel the American culture. Although it’s just an animated sitcom, it does reflect Americans’ lives in some ways. That’s my only selfie in recent years, I’m a selfie-hater. (I’m the one who wore a silly glasses, and the beauty next to me is my mentor Alisa. Many people say it’s a mistake to take a picture with a beauty like my mentor, but I don’t care.)
My writing experience started, like for most kids, in elementary. At nineteen, I remember every little about the very beginning of my writing experience. However, I remember that I did well in my English classes. I loved to read and many people said that that is a factor for why I excelled in that class. Besides writing for school assignments, I wrote songs. During elementary, besides books, music was my escape from reality. Although music did not have as much of an impact as books on me, songs were pretty close, so I decided to write them. And I continued to do so until the sixth grade.
This term was very fruitful and educational; not only were we given the chance to tackle about certain issues, but we also got to read some articles and essays written by other people to serve as inspiration to write our own. This term, I also realized how essential it is to have people around you throughout the duration of your writing period. I realized how much people can manipulate the way you write in a positive way.
Writing is definitely not my strongest subject in school I’ve struggled with it since elementary school. When I was told that I would have to take this class, composition 100, I started to worry a little bit given the main purpose of the class is to write. Now that the class is nearly over looking back on it I have gained some writing techniques and a few other techniques along the way.