Throughout High School, my writing experiences have been different depending on the teacher. During my four years I have had English teachers who either treasure reading their students papers or the exact opposite. Coming from Middle School I loved writing because my teachers always made it exciting for me. Freshman year my teacher had our class only write two essays. She did not even read them judging off of the fact that everyone in the class received an A, therefore I learned nothing. When I moved onto tenth grade I still had a passion for writing even after a bad year of English, but when we starting writing the persuasive research paper I fell in love more. Most of my friends loathed going to English because they knew they had to work …show more content…
It came very easy to me knowing how to structure the paper and using citations. Other than that, the flow of research paper is what I love most, starting off with what you believe in, and then taking an opposing point to just make your argument stronger. I have mostly had success with papers that I can dive into and zone out when writing causing all the words to flow onto the page swiftly. In eleventh grade I had to write a paper comparing two novels, not only were the books incredibly old and boring, but I felt as if I could not add as much style to the paper and make it come from the heart. I found myself waiting till the last minute to complete assignments for the paper. It was a big failure for me when I saw my grade and did not know how I ended up with such a low grade because I usually ace papers. Thinking back I wish I would have put more effort in and not have procrastinated writing the essay. I had a lot of grammar mistakes that I know I could have fixed if I would have been more diligent. Grammar has not always been my strong suit even when I edit multiple times. Finally, senior year and I get to write another persuasive research paper on animal testing, a topic near and dear to my
Throughout my experiences as a writer, I would say the issue I have faced the most is being well-organized. While writing essays I can begin to write on a topic but it gets difficult for me as I start to discuss or argue on my topic which can cause confusion to readers as they read my writings. It is a setback that I have adapted into my style of writing and has needed improvement in order to have a strong structured foundation academically. Over the past years as I encountered different perspectives from teachers that have led me to incorporate their style of writing that I have adjust to my own. Though I may have my difficulties, my ideas can be great but the lack of knowledge I have organizing my paper it has created a foundation that is not
Writing essays have really been a thing for me because, I don’t find them hard at all, depending on the topic, it’s easy to find what to talk about, and what order to put it in to make it all make sense. The first big essay I wrote was an argumentive essay in 8th grade and I was happy to do that because I like arguing and getting my point across. It was an essay where we had to state our opinion and then a counter argument about our topic, mine was if phones should be allowed in school.
As a reader and writer I have had plenty of courses that made me write essays and research papers, however not as much to read. Writing was always stressed upon in my high school so we tended to write a lot. Reading was also stressed upon, but not as heavy as writing so we didn’t do nearly as much reading as we did writing. The last most intensive writing and reading course I took was my sophomore year theology class.
I have always hated to write It was made worse by the fact that I don’t have very good penmanship so even when I would write something I was never completely sure what it was I had written the next day. I wish I was able to say that over time my view of writing has changed and I have started to enjoy it but unfortunately that would be mostly a lie, I have had time where I have wanted to write something but then had an ill think on it a little longer and then just never did it. I have had to write research papers in high school mostly and as long as I got to choice my topic it wasn’t so bad but when I was assigned a topic I would do most of the research and then put the paper off till the last minute then scramble to get it done. I once had to do a research paper about steam engine past and present with is something I found interesting and enjoyed. I did all my research I learned that the first item to incorporate the energy in steam was developed by Hero Alexandria around 50 AD and his inventions where little more than toys for the ancients worlds rich. Fast forward a quite a few centuries you are using the steam engine to pump water and later propel trains then I learned that nuclear energy is in a way just a more advanced form of steam power. This was a paper I took a large amount of interest in because I have always enjoyed trains and I wanted to learn what made them function and what is the science behind them. With the added interest it was also a very easy paper for me to write. I would say that I have come a long way in my writing but I have a long way to go before I will ever admit to enjoying it, and even then I may not mention it out
The only thing I really remember about reading and writing instruction when I was little is being read to. I was in preschool and when it was time to read we all sat on the rainbow rug, and our teacher would read to us. I don’t have the best memory. I’m sure there were more attempts on getting my interest in reading and writing, I just can’t remember.
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
Writing has been in the human civilization for thousands of years ago and it has been a way to convey messages and laws. It has evolved as time passes by. Now, writing is used for everyday activities. Some people really are passionate in writing. However, some people do not feel the same. They tend to be stressed when they write because they do not know what to write, and I am one of them.
I often describe myself as an affectionate, animal lover, outspoken, but timid at the same time. I have never described myself as a writer the reason being I’ve never been skillful at expressing myself on paper. At first, as I start to prepare to write I think to myself this is it, this will be the greatest essay I’ve ever typed, this will be the greatest statement ever written. My mind quickly changes when I realize that I have nothing to put down on paper. It took me 2 years to finally take the English courses I was required to take at the beginning of my college years. It frustrates me to look at a blank word document and the blinking arrow cursor, it literally drives me insane. When I took my first developmental writing course, in order to take English 1, it bothered me seeing how fast people could type their ideas in comparison to me.
My grandmother always told me that education was the key to all success. When I was a little girl, she taught me how to read bible stories and children books. She also taught me basic writing skills. When I was in elementary school, it was always easy for me to read and write, but that changed once I got in high school. Once I got in 10th grade, I always struggled with writing papers. I always felt that everyone could write essays with no problem, while it took me ten minutes to write one sentence. My mind would always go blank when it came to writing papers. I used to be confidence when it came to writing, but now I feel that I will never be able to write a good essay.
At the beginning of this Writing Composition course, I hardly had any expectations besides the excessive amount of essay assignments. Up until this course, I had only considered that this was any other ordinary writing class. My experiences with writing classes and essays have not been a fun one because I have always seen it as an annoying task. Recently, this narrow perception of mine has gradually deteriorated because of my experience in this course. I have realized that writing isn’t just another assignment, but it is a place where one can express their opinions, emotions, and experiences. This course has helped me develop my strengths like my development of thoughts and organization skills while being able to acknowledge my weaknesses like having trouble stating two positions and having biased opinions. Due to this recent realization, I have been able to get a better insight of my writing skills and a new perspective of writing classes.
As someone who frequently writes, I have been accustomed with the difficulties of writing. However, I have never been more challenged (in a good way) and have been required to think more critically than I have been now having to write in Chinese. At first, the biggest adjustment was familiarizing myself with the manner in which phrases in English are structured in Chinese. I initially had the impression that this class was going to be “easy” in the sense of not having to do much work but that quickly changed. Quite frankly, I even considered dropping the course because of these reasons but I ending up confronting these challenges because of my genuine interest in the language and the content of this course. After week one, I made it my goal to be more engaged in class. At least initially, I would describe my participation in class as being more passive than active, as I frequently did not engage in class discussion or read the textbook. However, I later become more engaged in the class. Foremost, this begun
It is never fun to be “forced” to write a 10 or more page paper on a topic that is typically not interesting or worth the effort. As I reflect on the many papers I’ve had to write in life, however, I have realized that the research papers are more like practice for something more enjoyable to write, for instance: this personal essay. In fact, I have learned a lot by writing research papers. I have learned how to present an argument, how to use punctuation, and how to not be “fluffy” and redundant in my paragraphs. From experience, I have noticed that research papers are the assignments that my teachers have been most involved with. We usually work on these types of essays in class and that allows for students like me to ask the teacher questions at my leisure. Interestingly enough, I enjoy writing papers more than I like reading books. The main reason is because I am the one that is writing the “book”. I know what I find funny, amusing, and interesting. Essentially, I am the creator in my essays and can constantly alter my work whereas in a book, if I am bored with it, I am still stuck with
The importance of writing, I found, was in what you wrote about and its purpose, writing helps you get your ideas on paper and improve simply things like sentences, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. There are many types of writing for different purposes, for this semester we focused on persuasive and research papers, but there is also poetry, fiction, creative, narratives, and even more.. I feel I have grown as a writer in the organization, wording and lead-ins of papers. I also feel I have improved in my vocabulary and using different words to give the same meaning.
My experiences in writing have been minimal. I have only learned the basics of writing, like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that. Since I have been taking college English, I can tell my writing has improved a lot. In the future, I hope to be able to improve tremendously at writing essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories so that I have very little to no errors with drafting and final products. I predict I will be a well rounded writer when I graduate from college.
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.