My Personal Writing : My Experience In My Writing

Over the course of this semester, I have improved as a writer. At the beginning, I would like to think I was fairly decent, but I didn’t have much experience in anything but English and the occasional history papers. This year was difficult, as it forced me to learn new ways of writing. As I got more comfortable, I clearly improved, with my writing and content improving. Essays like the Prairie Meadows scholarship and annotated bibliography were remarkably different than what I was used to, and I benefited from writing them. The beginning of this year, I wasn’t incredibly concerned with my sentence structure or the impact of the words I used. As I learned and wrote more, my sentences got more complex and I -for the most part- stopped using

As a freshman at Linden High School, I have learned that writing provides students with the necessary communication and thinking skills necessary to succeed in school. Before I enrolled in ACL, I was a lazy writer who detested every aspect of writing. Now, I have learned to embrace writing challenges and learn from my mistakes. Writing persuasive and research papers proved to be difficult for me because it required organizational and research skills. As the year progressed, I began feeling more confident in my writing skills and looked forward to expressing my ideas on paper. As a writer, I have gained the knowledge and tools to grow as a student.

My writing style, in my opinion, is light-hearted and creative. I don't particularly like bland papers, regardless of the topic, so I tend to add in a bit of humor, if possible, and maybe even a bit of interesting facts. I always tend to wonder if someone else would understand my paper. I enjoy being able to put in a nice flow to my paper so that I'm not going from one topic directly to another. In all honesty, I enjoy other writing styles such as being objective, realistic, complex, and dramatic. My favorite that I try to go for, however, is a light-hearted style because I can have a bit of fun with it while following the designated guidelines.

I think that my writing style leans well more on the creative and entertaining side than the informative side of the spectrum. This is reflected on some of the titles I have come up with for all of my papers and use of wordplay in a lot of passages. That being said, it was quite a struggle to stop using clever language and focus solely on the content of the paper. Even if that did improve over the course of the semester, I still feel like that style of writing didn’t leave me, nor will it. I can always prevent myself from using metaphors and the likes in research papers, but I will still have those metaphors and analogies in me to use for creative purposes, where I normally steer my writing towards.

I am Marissa Gubacz and feel that I am a very strong writer. When I was in elementary school I use to write books for fun all the time. Obviously, these stories were not well written, but I just enjoyed the feeling of creating my own fairy tale and story. My first graded story I wrote was in sixth grade about Christmas. I enjoyed this project because I got to write a story and draw pictures. Although writing was extremely entertaining to me, once I got into ninth grade and had to take the class World Literature, or English 9, my feelings toward writing started to decline because we had to start writing long essays. In this class we had to write three essays. The first essay I wrote was about the Odyssey. This essay was a struggle for me to write because I had to learn a new essay writing

As a child, I had a passion for read and write. I was very proud of my first poem project that displayed a smiling sun in the corner of the page. Books were a way for me to be someone else to be somewhere else. Lucky for me Harry Potter was all the rage during my elementary school discussions. At that time I caught the writing bug and would write anything that would come to mind. Characters and stories came to me at all times of the day. However, around age 14 I could no longer write a word I wrote interesting outside of school assignments. I became a teenager and with that I lost my creativity. I start something and it ends up in as a paper ball in the trash. I put the pen to the paper and I can’t get anything out. So here I am searching

At the beginning of English Composition, intimidated by the expanse of knowledge that my teacher had. I was worried about if my papers would ever be good enough because in my earlier years, writing was not a thing I was good at. However, as the semester progressed, I learned that I my writing skills were up to par with college writing. In the end, I realized that my introductions and conclusions had improved compared to high school and that I needed to work on my grammar, development of my ideas, and making sure my main points are developed and clear. Furthermore, I plan to correct my errors by using various writing strategies and resources.

Learning anything in school was very hard for me growing up because I always felt discouraged when there were people learning the curriculum faster than I did or making better grades, but reading and writing was something that I always wasn’t discouraged with. I learned how to read and write from experiences and creativity that I had or that was shown to me. My family had a lot of issues and a lot of drama would happen that my brother and I caught in the middle of it so I found a way out of it.

It is 6 am on a hot day in July and I’ve already showered and eaten breakfast. I know that my classmates are all sleeping in and enjoying their summer break, but I don’t envy them; I’m excited to start my day interning with a local newspaper doing investigative journalism. I work a typical 8-5 day during my summer vacation and despite the early mornings, nothing has made me happier.Although it wasn't clear to me then, looking back on my high school experiences and everything that led to me to this internship, I believe this path began with a particularly savvy teacher and a little book she gave me to read outside of class.

I searched-looking left, right, and then back at my clock-repeatedly until I saw the rectangular piece of a paper held by an unfamiliar face that read “Mina Poppas”. I made eye contact with this unfamiliar person and approached cautiously. The unfamiliar face smiled slightly and asked if I was in fact, Mina Poppas. I replied with the nod of my head and quickly glanced downward avoiding further eye contact that would engage in more conversation. Despite my best efforts of minimal conversation with this unfamiliar face, he began to introduce himself as Mark. Mark mentioned that I had arrived early and the other kids were not there just yet. I had been sent to a four year boarding school extremely far from home by my parents due to

Head hanging she crawled over to me. "In answer to your question, all we did was talk and kiss," I told Vickie.

As a Human, throughout life there are many skills that are critical to acquire, during childhood and as you become older. One of the most important and useful skill you will need is writing. From first, learning to write words and sentences, to more advanced writing like essays. Everyone learns to write a little differently, some ways are learning from your parents or learning words and letters in kindergarten. As you get further down the path of life you develop higher skills of writing. As people grow up their life gets more advanced and difficult and they have to worry about more things; in a sense writing is the same way as you grow up you learn more skills and the requirements increase. For myself it was a lot different than others.

All throughout my years of schooling, I’ve had just about, one paper that was about one page long, due every year. My papers never had to be more than one page in length. Therefore, I did not have to do much writing or do many essays. Surely not enough to remember any of the assignments. Writing has never been something I enjoyed doing, so I never bothered to many any memories of my writing experiences. I did not think it was necessary to remember any of them since I only had to do them to get a grade. The only writing experience I remember was the first assignment I had in this English 100 class about a writing experience. All week long, I sat there thinking about what to write about, but nothing came to mind as a topic. Then, one thing came to mind, but it was so very vague, I could not write the length that was needed for the assignment. I could only think of a few sentences to write for it. After sitting for a few moments longer, I thought, how about I write about how difficult it was for me to write this essay before it was due.

I love to read and at one time in my life a friend encouraged me to write stories, I even wrote about some of the unusual dreams that I had. I have three stories started, but they are not complete. Several years later, another friend encouraged me to go back to college after being told at work that I will never be moved from my current position because I do not have a college degree. Since, my friend was doing all her classes virtually, I decided to submit my application to the college that she was attending. I took one class in the fall of last year. I was so nervous because it was primarily written papers. I almost dropped out. My friend encouraged me to try. I had expressed my fears to my instructor and he helped me become a better writer to express my thoughts and feelings onto paper.

“I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.” Nearly everyone has heard if not said this statement themselves at some point. My passion so far has been purely STEM, science, technology, engineering, and math, and if I don't grow up to be an engineer I will be very surprised. I have always had more of an interest in building than writing. Why waste the time writing about something when I can just do an experiment or build the machine? And while STEM and reading are subjects that I have always enjoyed, my opinion on writing has improved as I have come to realize that writing is the bridge between technical ideas and deep understanding.