Personal Essay: A Career As A Writer

The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

When presented with the question, “who are you as a writer?”, I was speechless at first. But after thinking about it, I realized who I am as a writer has been influenced by so many different sponsors throughout my life and there was not a short, concrete answer. Brandt mentions that “literacy is sponsored by people, institutions, and circumstances that both make it possible for a person to become literate and shape the way the person actually acquires literacy.” (Brandt 43) My attitude towards writing has been influenced by teachers, both negatively and positively, by my mother, and by academic assignments over the years. My answer to the question can only be answered by a narrative of my writing life. I have convinced myself that I am a terrible writer, and when presented with a writing assignment, I get anxious instantly. I see writing as a burden and a huge obstacle that gets placed in my life. Academic writing is not fun, but something I value due to the fact that we are a grade driven society. When writing, I write to the guidelines in order to receive points for the requested criteria. The reason being, I gave up on expressing my own ideas because I had been shut down by so many teachers throughout my education. I tried to write down what came to my mind and put my own twist on things, but that was not the “right” way to write papers. In order to make both my teachers and my grades happy, I wrote what they wanted to hear, and even then I was not to the level they

One cold sunny weekend in February of 2014 in Madison, MS the Saint Stanislaus boys just arrived to the hotel where they would stay for the night before the big game. All was good the night before we ate and later went to sleep. We all woke up around eight in the morning and had breakfast. We left for the fields around twelve because the game was at two in the evening.

I feel like my middle school writing career has improved with every writing project I have completed. As a writer I have changed over the years and have used many different tactiques in my essays. I have had strength in the ability to connect my idea with my evidence but I wish I could write a lot longer and more descriptive essays. I feel like my middle school writing careers has changed over the months.

I first started writing around when I was in the third grade. I loved to read fiction and I wanted to write it too. That year I had a story about my hair published in an Akron newspaper. Getting that story published made me feel really excited about something and I wanted to continue to do it forever. Eventually, we had to start to learn to write in cursive and I hated it so, I slowed down on writing during school and at home. I would still get good grades on reports and writing assignments but I never enjoyed it as much. I could never find the desire to write but when I did write I was never happy with the outcome.

My middle school writing career was a long and lengthy process with a bunch of struggles. I started writing in elementary school but did not really get into it until 8th Grade. When I really started to enjoy it I developed my writing style. Some of my strengths are/were writing my paper with little mistakes once I got a general idea. Also becoming fluent in typing was another plus. But there were areas that needed growth. One major place is that I have a lot of trouble getting my thoughts down on paper and I fall behind at least 3 days at the minimum. I also about half the time pick an organizer or an organizing method and I struggle with it so I fall behind even more.

4. I am a student trying to take any opportunity available to improve my growth as a person. Who I want to be is a successful person that my parents could be proud of and that

Reading and writing has always played a vital part in my life. From toddler to adult, pre-elementary to college, I’ve managed to sharpen both skills to my liking. However, even though it significantly helped, schooling was not what influenced me to continue developing those skills into talent. Many different things shaped and influenced my learning, and now reading and writing have become the safety net of my life. I know that even if I have nothing else in the future, I’ll still have my talent and knowledge. To ensure my success, I hope to further develop those skills so that I may fulfill my wishes.

I panicked, I didn't know what to do. "Uh..." he was just staring at me with a big waiting smile on his face. "Niall,"

Anais Nin, a Cuban author, once said, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment

I don’t consider myself a very good writer. I write when I am made to or when I have something that I need to say that I can’t just tell someone. I keep a diary. Usually my diary is just a record of what I have done that day. It’s not so much about my feelings. I don’t really like talking about my feelings, usually because most of the time I am confused about what exactly I am feeling. I tend to keep the feelings that I do have to myself, to protect myself from getting hurt.

The career I have chosen to research is journalism. I specifically chose this career because I love writing, designing, and reading the news and learning about the news of the day. I read a lot of news, review articles, my favorite, opinion articles, and the internet is my favorite resource. I enjoy writing well enough to do it for the rest of my life. The reason I want to have this career is that I am very excited about the idea of delivering news, and writing stories for people who want to be heard. I want to find the smaller social groups, and age groups and share a story about them. The minorities need to be heard, everyone needs to be heard. I want to be their ticket to getting out of a bad situation. I want to help them to tell their story and feel like they have hope that someone that cares for them and is willing to help. I think that is the main reason I want to be a journalist.

I have been trained to become a chemist since the first year of my high school. This is a challenging career, requiring analytical thinking, attention to details, and adaptability. It is also a well-paying and promising career. However, chemistry is not what I have always dreamt of doing the rest of my life. As someone who is concerned about the development of sub-Saharan Africa, I came to a conclusion that what this region needs is not only scientists but also people who know and understand leadership and international affairs. In this paper, I compare my strengths and abilities to the qualities that one should have in order to excel as a chemist and a diplomat.

“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because, you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on” by Zayn Malik. This quote caught my attention because it explains how we cannot dwell on the past or the present and we need to keep moving to the future. I struggle with this because I hate when people are mad at me, this would probably be my greatest weakness. I think one of my strengths would be making friends and cheer and dance.

In life, purpose helps drive your passions in life and take you wherever you may want to go. Everyone has their purposes that guide them and keep the light at the end of the tunnel lit. There are many different purposes that can hold a place in your life’s journey such as academic, career, and personal purposes. My overall purpose in life is to be able to have a life that I am proud of and to have a life that I did not simply settle for. In my career, I hope to be a successful lawyer who has changed other’s lives for the better. My academic goal is to always be a student in all situations with a desire to learn at every opportunity that arises. Finally, my personal goal in life is to never settle for anything and to always