My Personal Writing : The Importance Of Writing

I learned a few interesting reasons regarding my overall feelings for writing. Up until now, I never examined why I disliked writing. Looking back at my past experiences with writing I now have a better understanding on what was holding me back. Self-confidence certainly played a large factor in my avoidance of writing. After writing the essay on my relationship with writing, I can use what I have learned from that exercise and apply it to my future writing adventures. I need to be more self-confident, and not worry about any judgments. I need to realize that I am able to express my thoughts through writing. This exercise gave me a very good perspective on my avoidance of writing and will help propel me to write more in the future.

Distant, cold, and non-existent describes my relationship with writing. My relationship with writing has never been a close relationship. Writing has always been difficult for me. I have never hated writing, but it has been a constant challenge for me. I will be discussing my fears of writing, the value of being able to express your ideas through writing, and what excites me about writing more and more.

In high school I was not the best at writing. I did not find this out until I was places in advanced English. I was used to writing papers that had to be simple. So when I started receiving C’s and D’s I told myself something had to change. I finally realized that I could not write as well as most of my classmates. So, what I ended up doing was making my papers more complex and making my sentences stronger. When I applied myself I became a stronger writer. As I took the diagnostic test I saw I was making a lot of mistakes. At the end I made a 70. From this I could see why I encountered the bad experiences in high school and in college.

The relationship that I have with writing is complicated and we don’t always get along. Although we tend to make up even when I get frustrated and want to quit. When being assigned a paper I struggle with what to write. My words seem to never come out the way I would like and I’m always having to start over and over again. It starts to get frustrating after a while. Needless to say writing isn’t one of my favorite things to do but it’s apart of our everyday lives like texting, sending emails, posting on Facebook, Twitter, and so on. I personally have only used texting as my main daily form of writing since I graduated high school. So therefore I would like to refresh my memory of what I learned in high school and widen my use of writing while in this writing course.

It is hard for me to focus on writing. When you read my writings, it is very obvious within the first paragraph. My work is much better, and more enjoyable to read, when I write in a quiet place with few distractions. My teachers never really questioned my writing until 10th grade. I could wait till the night before a paper was due, crank one out in under an hour, and the teacher would use it for an example paper in class the next day. Ms. Yard, my 10th grade teacher, was the first to call my writing bluff. I learned that writing was much more then writing. In order to have a good writing piece, as explained in “What Writing Is”, you have to be able to write something that is

I have never been much of a writer, but I can’t say I completely hate it. For as long as I can remember, I was always one of the kids that would sigh when a teacher assigned an essay for the class. One reason for having a dislike towards writing was because it takes a lot of thought and time to even think of how to begin. However, as I grew older, I came to the conclusion that writing isn’t all that bad. I actually found writing quite interesting when I get the chance to write about something that I strongly care about. So writing to me is bittersweet, depending on if it’s something that interests me or not.

My personal experience, as a writer, is limited only to the days it was required of me, which led to a lack of understanding of a writer’s style and a bad reputation and relationship with past English educators. I never really enjoyed writing, I but always admired reading the works of famous writers, who had the gift of self-manifestation. However, I always seemed to complete the task without any sort of passion or interest. Writing was simply a required aspect of earning a grade. I felt limited in my ability to be creative or interesting to my readers. My writing seemed to lack imagination and vitality. While I was enthralled in reading a good book, writing was an unsatisfying effort and a chore. Expressing my voice and inspiring others

The other reason that makes me feel uncomfortable about writing is that what if somebody read my papers and they will laugh at me because of my bad grammars and stupid ideas. I always find it’s so embarrassing to share my papers to others, even to my teachers. However, I don’t mind my teachers that much. At least I always turn in my best work to my teachers, even if they’re bad, they’re still my effort. Despite that fact, there was a time when I was in 11th grade that I was really disappointed in my teacher. She was a student teacher. She was nice and friendly, everyone liked her, included me. But it was this one thing she did that made me feel uncertain about my feeling for her. Whenever we were in computer lab and typing essays, she always

I express myself through writing. My entire life I’ve had a big imagination that made it hard to express myself vocally; my thoughts scatter around in my mind and can usually only be properly brought to life on paper. Of course, I'm comfortable speaking to people and in front of people- but without the power of revision and addition, it’s hard to say what I feel needs to be said. I enjoy writing because I can let everything out on a piece of paper or a computer screen and it doesn’t need to make sense until I want it to make sense. My favorite genres to write are also my favorite to read, fiction and fantasy. With these genres' I can create my own world where everything is what I need it to be, I can create my own characters and give them unique

Writing is one of the components in English that gradually took many effort and dedication. My experience in writing so far has improved. Writing was one of the things, I struggled with in school. My writings were on topics, books, and poems. In High school, I knew I needed to improve in writing, so in my Junior and Senior year I took Advanced Placements classes for English.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for all the efforts that you have invested in helping me improve my writing. The efforts that you invested in me did not go in vain. In this course, I have become insightful in regard to the process of writing as whole. Who knew that writing can be challenging yet rewarding simultaneously? Through many challenges that I have encountered in this class, and many exercises comprised in the course, I have come to clearly realize different weaknesses and strengths that I possess when it comes to writing. As the semester was rolling into action, I was straggling with certain elements of the writing process. Unlike many writers, beginning to write was usually the most challenging aspect of the writing process. For many unproductive hours, I would simply stare blankly at my writing equipment while blank thoughts ran through my mind. In addition to my inability to produce words for my writing, I sometimes have problems with coming up with a solid theses statement. Clearly introducing my topic can sometimes be a challenging task. I usually had a tendency of spending great amount of my time on introducing my paper. However, the first conference that we had was an eye-opening session. As I stated in my diagnosis essay that we wrote at the beginning of the semester, I have come to acquire techniques that have helped me resolve these challenges.

Writing had always been one of my weaknesses, but when I took English 126 my goal was to develop my writing. During the semester I learned many things which had improved my writing. Throughout the semester, I had to write three papers which needed me to use different skills. Through writing the different types of paper and other activities I was able to acquire those skills. I learned to explain quotes, use correct MLA format, find and use proper sources, and present my writing more smoothly. Even though it still needs improvements, but I was undoubtedly able to learn the basics of all these skills for my writing.

Onomatopoeia, similes, personification; these are just a few writing techniques that I do not use when I write. Why? Most of the writing done by myself is boring essay’s I am forced to write in order to get a good grade. Though I received mostly A’s on my papers it was hard and annoying to write papers. In my history as a writer any subject, assignment, or just writing that I have done that I enjoyed was exciting and fun to write. When composing papers on subjects I am interested in, writing becomes more enjoyable.

On this first half of the school year in ELA class I have learned about sign posts to help me understand better what I read and to be aware of my thoughts while I am reading. In writing I have learned how to organize my sentences in the text and to avoid writing too much just to make my essay longer. In speaking and listening, I learned not to speak swallowing words and also about maintaining a good posture while presenting a project. I would say that some of my success in my work is that now I know how to order my ideas in my essays and read carefully to fully understand the text. My limitation is on writing, when it comes to grammar, since English is not my first language I sometimes spell the word wrong or I don’t write it at all. But looking back to my works I see that I have progressed a lot in my writing and reading skills however I still need to improve more my grammar.

I can't believe this is only my 3rd post. I have truly done an awful job at updating this. I meant to write these posts bi-weekly, but instead I've failed to get them done on even a monthly basis. Oh well. If not updating my blog is my biggest regret sense being here, I can live with that. Indeed, I think it is my biggest regret. Perhaps I could've seen more, perhaps I could've spent more afternoons in Regents Park, but I might've done a thousand things more and still have felt as satisfied as I do right now. I've seen art works by Matisse, Picasso, and Monet, I've climbed Arthur's Seat and seen the lights Edinburgh in the dead of night, I've seen a football match (of both varieties!) at Wembley, I've had an English breakfast (avoid the