My Writing Experience

I became the literate person I am today by mostly writing, I write all the time and I do a little reading. What made me love writing was the fact I found an escape, not on an emotional level, but writing is something to help ease in my opinion. My personal writing has influenced me more than the writing I was assigned in school, I continued it outside of school as a choice of my own, once I started I never stopped. My viewpoint on reading is different than my viewpoint on writing, reading is not that bad but it can get boring. What made me feel different about reading from writing, is probably the fact, reading just takes time, like when I write, I write any and everytthing however I want. But, to read a book, I have to read it a certain way

Lacking experience in writing and reading, English is my most feared subject. It is the one and only vulnerable spot in my in my mind. I hate writing and I hated reading, other than sports pages in the newspaper or sports books. My earliest time that I started reading and writing was extremely abhorrent for me. Sometimes, you could even say that some of these experiences bothered me. It was quite hard because I wasn’t able to focus on what I need to do. I was even struggling to write my own name. The young mind that I had, it was so easy to get distracted on what I need to learn and also accomplish, especially for the future ahead of me.

My childhood never consisted of a basic family routine. Other than my own house, I spent a majority of my time between my aunt’s and grandma’s house, which had a major impact on the way reading and writing has affected my life today. I was around the age of four when I began the first stages of my interests in reading. My aunt was the first one to sit down with me and begin the layout of my love for reading by teaching me the alphabet and the basic sounds of each letter. And my grandma was the first one to ensure the writing factor as she often told me stories that she had written herself. These two women, along with my schooling, are the benefactors behind my success in reading and writing to this day. Reading and writing have been very important

Reflecting on my peers work, I noticed a wide variety of writing quality, It varied in length and quality. Comparing it my own I can’t say that my personal writing is better. Since the people ranged differently. Some of my peers writing was better than mine and others were better. I did realize that most people put in a lot of effort and comparing my writing to that it shows that I need to put in more time to get the quality of writing. Furthermore, I was surprised when there was a minimum of 500 words some people went beyond the requirements while other did it. During the debates, some individuals did put in the effort to make a good argument and that showed through in their mid-term. And since it was a group debate assignment a lot of experience and levels of writing came together to come up with the best outcome.

Reading and writing has always created a sense of understanding for me in my art. Reading in the literal sense is a way that we understand text or symbols in our minds which in turn create meaning. Writing also in a literal sense is our way of communicating our knowledge and emotions to others through symbols in text. The human experience for all people includes communication and through reading and writing this experience is created. From the beginning of this course, my only prior experience with reading and writing were high school level course over literature and reading. I had an average level of rhetoric,reading,writing and language overall however, understanding the significance of these subjects was never put forth in such a way until I took this course. I discovered through this course that reading is a combination of not only our “visual information” but also our “nonvisual information”. My comprehension of reading has evolved from reading

I believe that writing is more than an academic task. It is a life skill. Through positive interactions and dedication within both students and teachers, we as writers can improve our writing. Not only have I found this factual but, I became aware of this the more I produced writings. I stumbled upon this belief through the trial and error I had faced both in school and at home. As a highschooler having that forever pent-up anxiety and stress because you have no idea if you are going to be accepted into the college you want because you’re lacking writing skills is unbelievably stressful. Even now, I sometimes feel as if I have no idea what I want for myself in the future, all I know is that I want to be successful but how? That’s when I was

Since the third grade writing has always been a torturous way for schools to grade me on understanding of a course taken or a passage read. I have tried to like writing but honestly I really do not like it at all. With that said I believe I’m not a strong writer because I struggle with grammar and often second guess my sentences. If I’m telling the truth I did not pay attention in fourth and fifth grade when we were taught grammar rules and sentence structure. At the time in my life I was much more interested in science, math, and playground time. Also I have always made weak transitions from one idea to another and lack on conclusion skills.

I have learned a great deal about my self as a writer. That I have great potential to write at an advanced level if I can hone my grammar and organization skills. My mind if full of creative and out spoken ways to word certain topics, yet if no one can understand the sentence what use is my writing? I also learned I love writing memorable to the point conclusions as I spent the most time in all of my essays figuring out a witty way to end each with a way of clarity. I also learned how to correct my sentence fragments, how to use commas, and stopping my usage of contractions and “ing” verbs. All these problems I struggled with while in high school, yet teachers simply corrected them and told me to edit in the corrections. I came into college with the rhetorical and critical skills of writing, yet lacked the grammatical abilities to capture A's on my paper.

I believe I learned to write either in pre-school or in kindergarten. It wasn’t anything special, but I know I could write simple words. I’ve always feared having to write in English classes. It’s never been a huge part of my life. Growing up my parents definitely thought reading and writing was important, but because my father was a math teacher I don’t think it was as important to us as it was to other families. I do not believe that I’ve ever been a great writer. I can get a B at best usually, but I’ve never felt like an excellent writer.

I have had different writing experiences throughout high school so I was able to write my essays fairly well. I am better at grammar than I am at putting a fully developed paragraph together. During this semester, I learned about modifiers and how to correctly use commas; I thought I knew what those were pretty well, and as it turns out, I didn’t really. I believed that during this semester I developed a lot of skills such as communication. I struggled with the first group paper because I felt like my group members didn’t care enough to write their paragraphs. I realized that people write at different stages because they have busy lives, and after we figured out the situation, the second paper went a lot more smoothly. Another thing I have improved upon is being a thinker because I have to think of who the audience is, and how to phrase sentences correctly and professionally.

Throughout the semester, I find myself not the best at writing. In the beginning of the semester, the first essay I wrote in college was a literacy autobiography about myself academically. I talked how I wasn’t the best at writing essays and the struggles that I encountered. Furthermore, into the semester, there was one writing project that I found that I could voice out an issue that I care about, such as discrimination against Asian Americans. As I was writing this essay, I felt a moment of pain to where I incorporate the feeling into the essay after the facts. At that moment, I felt a connection in myself to writing and the meaning behind it

It is safe to say that a person can tell a lot about herself from her writing. My essays in English class were never the worst, but they also were never the best. With each individual essay I write I notice a change in the content and in the errors. My writing is not on a constant level of improving as it should be. It’s like with some essays I can look at the topic and do great, and with other topics I can do bad. Mainly in my two years of college I have noticed that I do better on essays that relate to me rather than essays I have to do research on. For example, my freshman year of college, in English 101, all of the topics had to deal with my personal

In my previous education history I have always felt like I was a good writer, because writing to me always seemed to be no sweat. The ways my old education teachers had taught me to how to write essays, paragraphs, and summaries, made writing those things to me easy as putting trash in can. Now that I am currently taking a writing class in college, those puzzle pieces I’ve learned from my teachers in my late education doesn’t seem to fit the puzzle now. Being taught by my previous education teachers I have always though I was good at writing an essay, until my current teacher told me the way I have been taught by my teachers in my previous years on writing essays was the improper way. Once I found out I have been writing my essays in my past education history the improper way, it had begun to trigger my brain at a very fast rate. My current teacher begins to

Over my years schooling, I have developed a strong writing skill through the idea of layouts. Where I write to fill a certain format and to not go outside the format. Through this writing style, I have written probably close to a couple dozen papers. When my junior year came along I was placed in a class what our school called the teacher “the writing nazi” I was extremely nervous to have her but she did things differently. With the start of every essay, we were given an open outline where we wrote our own ideas, not basic ideas. That year I developed a new style of writing, which I haven't fully developed yet but I am working on. Though I don’t think my biggest problem is that I do not have the “right” writing style, I think I have low self confidence in my writing qualifications. I don’t believe I ever have that perfect paper to turn in to get me that “A”. “ Most writers are quite deluded about the nature of their own talent” (Fail better) This quote stood out out to me because they always say that you are your harshest critic and I think that is especially true for both student and

I’ve been surrounded by words my whole life. My parents would speak to me before I was even born and continued to talk to me after being born. Without words there would be no such thing as a sentence. We wouldn’t be able to have an intellectual conversation or be able to write. I’m not sure if a conversation would be a thing. Words are the main component of the English language or any language for that matter. The world would be completely different without the use of letters and words.