Personal Narrative: My Writing In High School

As a writer it is important to find new ways to improve, I realized in to this class just how weak my skills in punctuation are. After each paper I review comma and semicolon rules, yet I still struggle with these rules. They are simple rules, but when it comes to applying them I draw a blank. This is one skill that will take some extra work on my part. Even in this assignment I see mistakes that I do not know how to fix. However, this class has inspired me to continue to try and fix the punctuation errors so that my

Going through life we learn and grow differently in literacy. As a young child, I started off my reading by looking at pictures and then grew into more difficult literacy. Trying to comprehend how much reading would impact my life in the future when I was little, was something I never understood. Being in high school now, I have learned how much reading and writing would impact me and how many opportunities it could provide for me. Since I was that child who could have cared less about my literacy, I soon became the child that got so worked up if I wasn’t as superb as others in reading. Throughout my childhood, my literacy has had its ups and downs, but now being in high school I have worked hard in my literacy which has allowed me to take

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.

Have you ever wondered how writing changes as you move from elementary school to middle school and then to high school? When I first started as a writer in elementary school my word choice was bad and half a page was long for me. But over the years my word choice has increased, and now doing half a page is supper eazy. My spelling has increased from elementary school a hole lot. Middle school has helped me be a better writer than before. Some of my strengths is that my word choice, my topics, the way I explain things to the reader. With strengths there is also weakness. Some of my weakness it that my spelling,sometimes maybe a way a phrase something, or if I write a paper on something and I title it something else. Over the years im going to try my best to improve these weaknesses.

“I began learning long ago that those who are the happiest are those who do the most for others.” Booker T. Washington’s wise words accurately summarize what I learned throughout high school. I noticed that selfish people are the unhappiest and most discontent. In sharp contrast, I also observed that people who dedicate their lives to others are the most joyful and satisfied. People I admire tend to be selfless and servant-minded. I strive to mimic them, living with a selfless mindset. My special interests, talents, and unique experiences enabled me to make others’ lives better.

English has never been my strong suit. During high school I took many advanced placement classes in all subjects except English. I have always been fascinated by the sciences and those were the classes I really excelled in. I thrived on my ability in those classes and honestly tried to avoid English because I was only average. Now, looking back at my high school writing experience, there was not a whole lot of writing which would make up for that explanation. I took many film as literature classes, reading classes, or a mixture of both reading and writing but never just writing. I think that will have a lot to say about my writing this quarter.

Before we went to lunch, I was so furious that I yelled at Mrs. Price, “How can you pretend like everything is okay?” The entire class just stared at me, and Mrs. Price said,”Rachel! We will eat lunch, then accompany the principal in her office!” I knew there was steam coming out of my ears by now, but I didn’t say a word. In the cafeteria, I ate my lunch silently in fear of what I might say.

My time in High School was made difficult from the constant strife and conflict between my parents. This made my home an unstable environment not fitted for learning or growing as an individual. As I got older and closer to graduating High-School, I began to find my own voice with the help of my mentor Rahn Fleming, which occurred at the end of my junior year. As a result, I came in control of my life and the constant feuding started to die down. No longer did I have to worry about the next scheduled court date, or the next time I would come home wondering what may await. I felt like I was always walking on broken glass for the longest of time throughout my life, until I began to voice myself and what I wanted. My parents came to realize this

When it comes to math, how much I retain comes from how long I tend to stay focused in class. During my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I was on the same roster as many of my friends, which caused me to goof around and lose focus in class which in turn made my grade less than what I desired. During my junior year, however, I was not around many people that I often hung with which later proved to be the best thing for me because that year I maintained a high A in the class and learned the material with relative ease. My math teacher for those three years, which I must admit that at first she wasn’t a very good teacher, but over the course of my next two years she taught me a lot and I thank her for that. One bad experience I

I am Aislinn, a practically ordinary high school student trying my best to make it to my future goals. My life has been a series of obstacles that I have overcome to get to where I am today. I am a strong independent human being with the passion and skills to succeed.

As author Joshua J. Marine said, “ Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful,” applied now, I have to ask myself if I’m prepared to overcome the transition from high-school to college writing. Yes, that transition was tough, but the experience it keeps giving me is, so far, totally worth it. In this college class I have had to grow accustomed to writing about new topics in new styles and explore the different ways I can present my ideas and incorporate them into the papers I write. My vocabulary has grown, in two ways, which some I learned being that to keep up a level of interest in my reader - I mean, who wants to read the same words over and over again? and to again express my ideas in the

I chose this quote because it sums up a lesson I learned in high school. When I moved from Connecticut to Ohio after my freshman year, I had trouble transitioning to a new school and state. I struggled in school for the first time in my life. My grades were not what I had hoped or expected them to be during my first quarter sophomore year, and it was not easy for me to get over that. I worked harder than ever to get the grades I wanted, and my hard work paid off. The rest of my sophomore year was much better than the first quarter, but I wasn’t completely satisfied with the outcome of some of my classes. I continued to work hard during my junior year, and throughout that year, my grades were consistent with my hopes. They were the grades I

When I usually write essays I tend to re-read the prompt after I read it I try to make any connections to the topics that I know about. After all that I break it down and I start to type my first draft out. Now that the class is almost over I’m very confident in my writing and I know what I am capable of writing and what I’m not. My overall experience in this class and also in writing has completely changed at 1st I really didn’t like to write that much essay I just wrote them to get a passing grade in any classes.

As the remainder of the semester passes, I will continue improving my writing strengths; in conclusion, my writing skills will advance. Realizing that I do have writing strengths I was not aware of, gives me the confidence to continue building the foundation for becoming a better writer. One example of a writing strength I possess is sentence combining. One month ago, I had no idea how to use a semicolon properly; however, I now know that a semicolon can be used to separate two clauses in a sentence. In my paper I wrote, “Eventually, I heard the monitors beeping in an unfamiliar sound; simultaneously, my doctor told me to push harder.” I learned the proper way to use a semicolon; consequently, transforming sentence combing into a strength of mine. Another writing strength I exhibit is keeping my introduction short and my thesis clear; likewise, these writing

Throughout my writing over the semester I feel I have improved in various ways and I feel this class has improved my writing skills. I have learned throughout the year that I need to continue practicing writing because I have a lot to work on to make my writing better. Before I took this class I didn’t really know how to incorporate a quote into a paper. I didn’t know how to quote sources and how to cite the source so you can give credit to the author. This class help me learn how to incorporate quotes by doing the “quote sandwich” I know now that I have to introduce the quote and put the quote in then you have to explain what the quote is talking about or what it means and how it is useful for the paper you are writing. Before this class I have not written a paper that is more than two pages and with the experience of writing papers in this class it will help me with future classes and further learning. With writing research papers in this class it has helped me in my synthesis (combining other people's words and ideas) because I had to research the ideas and pull out valuable information from others paper about the topic and put them together.. With using multiple sources in my research paper I had to use quotes in all their papers and organize in a way that would show how their paper agrees or disagrees with the other papers. I had to combine all the author's main thoughts and show how they all relate to each other. My overall sentence structure throughout the semester