Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Reading And Writing

Writing for me began as a kindergartener. My teacher made me write my name over and over again until I could write it without making any mistakes. In elementary school all my teachers taught me to put words I had learned together to form sentences. I was eventually taught to avoid fragments, and

How can I become a better writer? Throughout my writing experiences, I have learned I have many weaknesses along with strengths. My experiences with writing has not always been the best, but over time, with lots of practice and instructions from my instructors, I can proudly say that I have gained a better understanding on the layout of essays and papers. As well as understanding how to write correctly my goal as a writer is to learn how to overcome my weaknesses and use my strengths to my highest ability. I have many strengths, weaknesses and goals that I plan to achieve and overcome in my college career.

My experiences as a writer have been both very engrossing and strenuous. I have learned a great quantity on both reading and writing, though, I continue to struggle on things that I have learned by this time, making the same mistakes that I do not even realize. Sometimes things are not so easy to understand when reading information, especially if the wording of an article is difficult for example. I love the idea of learning new things everyday. These past years as a writer have been very interesting, and I have learned and grasped many concepts I have been taught along the way.

Having to write about my own literacy is hard to do, first of all it’s hard to recall things that happened when you were a child let alone when I started to read and write, I remember going to school playing, the teacher reading to us, making vowel sounds and learning to write my name; I recall the teacher giving out the spelling list and taking it home to practice before Friday’s test, I would go to school hoping and praying that I would not misspell any words; as usual I missed a couple of words and I knew what that meant.

The first step of my writing process when I write a traditional essay consists of brainstorming. If a certain format is provided, I have to brainstorm the order of my key points. On the other hand, for some assignments I am given the specifics of what I need to talk about (like these Log Its) and even given subheadings which I must include to offer a professor better access and recognition of key parts. Once I begin to write, I never have in mind that what I write is a draft of any sort. Personally, I like to keep up with my grammar, spelling and punctuation as I go, so once I finish, the paper is pretty close to being finished with very few mistakes. Sometimes, I type a word that I doesn’t fit into the context but at that time, I have a couple of sentences in my had that I know will disappear if I don’t type them out, so I type (?) after the word to remember to find a synonym or change the word.

In the class the thing that I least enjoyed the most was figuring out my writing process. This is because we had to do a auto-ethnography by completing a writing assignment while at the same time speak out loud everything that we thought. After this we had to type everything that we stated in our recording and code thoughts that we wrote down. Despite the fact I did not like the part of the auto-ethnography I did enjoy seeing what my writing process was. Originally, in the beginning of this writing process I thought that I had a structured writing process. I thought my writing process started with me first planning out what I wanted to write then I spent the rest of my time writing my paper and my final step was revising my paper. After doing

My experience with writing has been very up and down because I have a hard time focusing on the topic. I would say that’s something I need to honestly work on because my attitude is if I'm not into it then I'm not doing it simple. Some of my past teachers in high school said that I could write but I honestly don’t know about now. I'll admit that I've gotten lazy in the sense that if I'm not into the work then I'll just pass it with a D or just retake it. I need to get out of that and just suck it up and get it over and done with.

Thank you for your helping with my case. I am so glad that I don’t need to add another reading and writing class in this semester.

Think back to that first magical moment where someone bought the story alive for you as a child. I can remember the first time my mother read to me a bedtime story before bed. That magical moment happened for me when she started to read and all of a sudden it was like the characters literally lifted off the page. The story almost became like a movie that she had let me watch that night before I went to bed. A magician is what she was to be able to make a book come to life right before my eyes. I couldn’t wait until I possessed the same magical powers. However, how surprised I was to find out that my journey to read would not be so smooth or quick as I thought. While

My earliest experience with reading and writing were traumatizing especially when I was in the first grade. I still recall the experience I went through to this day. It made me really hate myself because the other kids were making fun of me.

I can’t remember a time where I didn’t love reading. My earliest memories are of me learning to read in preschool. The teachers would show us pictures of an item that was a three-letter word such as “cat” or “pig” and then show us the letters that would make up those words. I was always so excited for that time of the day when we learned words. I was never interested in making crafts or playing music I wanted to bypass everything else and go straight to reading lessons. I wanted to know how all the letters came together and made different words. I loved learning how to spell my name. I can remember how I loved the way the capitol A looked and how excited I was that it was the start of my own name. Teachers would tell my parents that I was enjoying

I came into this semester with an idea. An idea of reading and writing more to expand a world of my own. Something I've learned during my time in my English and Creative Writing classes is that reading can open up a much larger gateway to the imagination than anything else can. This is the most I have ever read in this short of a time span; over seven books in roughly five months. That has not counted in all the short stories and the Dungeons and Dragons modules I have read. With all the reading I have done, I have opened my own imagination even more to help with my own writing. R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt has helped me the most throughout this semester. I have read five of his thirty-two book series and am starting on the sixth. Salvatore

Over the course of the school year, I have improved in writing, as well as typing and have also adapted to the use of tools and sources to accomplish the assigned writing prompts. This writing assignment was handed out to help me question if whether I’ve improved my literary skills at all or not, and if so why? Or why not?

I used to be a super reader. I clearly remember snowy days in the winter that allowed me to stay inside the entire day, reading. I remember on one of those days that I was able to finish an entire book in that day. Start to finish, from eight AM to five PM, I read the entire thing. However, I was young, and the book I was reading (which I cannot remember now) was probably not that difficult. I remember reading the first book in the Harry Potter series entirely in the car on a summer road trip. An anomaly, according to my mother, as I was the only one she knew who could read in the car without getting carsick. I used to love to read, and this was something that I have given up in recent years.

Welcome to my first shared story, if you enjoy comment, if not comment. I just want to become a better writer, and since sci-fi isn't usually my cup of tea i was planning on writing another story but a high fantasy either in a full on spell arrangement or enhancement like magic type thing.