Personal Narrative: What I Learned To Learn About Writing

Reading and writing go hand-in-hand. Those who learn to write, write so someone will eventually read it. Those who learn to read, learn to write through reading other people’s work. But, one must first learn how to do one of the following to succeed in both. So, how does one learn to write? The best, most concise, writers develop from avid readers.

Bettering your skills of writing is extremely important because writing can help you with several different aspects throughout your life. Being a good writer can help you solve problems, learn, and triumph in school and future jobs. So how do you improve your writing? Firstly start with your mental state. You have to be willing to learn and give yourself the proper amount of time and knowledge in order to do well. Secondly, use the resources around you such as your syllabus, tutors offered through your school, and online

Writing has always been my most difficult part of English. Reading, on the other hand, is something I could do all day; however, with writing, I grimace just thinking about it. It was not that I did not have anything to say, because I actually have quite a bit to say. I just could never figure out how to phrase what I had to say in just right way on the page. My mom taught me to read and write at a young age. After that, I would devour any book that I could get my hands on. However, I have had trouble with writing since it became more than just my alphabet and numbers.

Something that I can also do to help my writing is to always read what I wrote out loud. When I say out loud, I mean out loud! This will help me catch some of the grammatical errors that anyone can easily make, and I can also make sure that what I am writing makes sense. Something else that can help me

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.

During my English courses throughout high school, I learned many things from writing simple journals, research papers, and a single term paper. During high school, I was laid back and procrastinated for much of my work. During the latter part of high school when I wrote my term paper my senior year, I found out that working a little every night writing a few paragraphs helped me out greatly. I was not just throwing something together just to get the grade and the paper finished. I spent time on the paper and

Writing has never come easy to me. It may be due to my short attention span or the fact I am not much of a reader. When I was younger

The earliest memory of my writing is in 4th grade we had to do the weekend news every Monday and it was due at the end of the day. I first would write down bullet points of what I did, for example, if I celebrated a birthday with someone or hanged out with my friends then we had to write it by hand on notebook paper and it had to be at least a page long. I was always the quickest because of what I did.

Writing has always been one of those things that I have had to work at to get words on paper that is not the case anymore. For some reason just letting myself free write for a couple weeks has suddenly made it much easier for me to write, and write significantly

Writing is not something that always comes naturally. The art of writing requires patience and continual practice. As a Bethel University student, I have many resources available to me to assist me with my practice. One example is Paperrater.com. This is a free resource with a fast and easy way to get an immediate review of your writing. The website offers basic instructions on how to revise papers based off style, word choice, spelling, and grammar rules.

Writing is clearly not a simple task a person can achieve in one day, unless they are quite lucky and gifted, unfortunately I am not. I learned that there are multiple steps that must take action in order to build

Most of my writings are written when I am in my deepest thoughts which normally occurs at night, but if it is school related I write whenever I feel it is necessary.

Module four was all about drafting my paper and writing down all the information I gathered form the sources I searched. The documents in the module were very beneficial, I learned how to write more efficient paragraphs, and to write in an academic style. And so in my paper I tried to avoid absolutes, be clear and brief in writing down my ideas and thoughts. Also, I learned how to write in a more logic manner. Some documents taught me how to be more integrated in my writings, how to avoid plagiarism, by applying quotes, or paraphrasing, and making sure to cite the source at the end. I believe I did well in writing my paper.

In this semester my achievement of improving my writing skills has increased significantly. My sentence lengths vary in a positive manner along with my word choice improving, becoming more complex and of writing expectation. My main struggle this semester would be the peer editing. Although I have improved significantly I still find it difficult to edit others papers. Further more than the common spelling and grammatical errors. I believe my essays have improved drastically from the beginning of the semester towards the end.

For as long as I can remember, I began writing in Nursery School what is Pre K in the U.S. These moments in kindergarten I was focusing on drawing perfect circles, squares , tracing letters and writing my name so I can begin to writing clearly. This was not to test my ability on how effectively I can write but how I can look at things and make my writing similar to someone else 's. As i progressed to a higher grade I focused more on effectively my writing can become by using punctuation. In Grades 3 to 5 The courses that I took were separated in different sections where some days we were doing english, comprehension and spelling. These were graded on how well you can write an essay given a topic, spelling tests. These essays and writing were very short about one page and was graded in 1st second third and fourth! One being the highest and 4 being the lowest. Moving to the U.S and entering the 6th grade it was very different. We began to write more because we were preparing for states tests. Writing historical articles and responses to reading books became one of such intense writing I have ever done. These were writings that were more than 4-6 pages long. This was something that I was not comfortable doing, but suddenly became a habit for me to write more than I should. As i entered highschool I was much well prepared for writing pages longer than 4-6 which was essential because my year as a freshman I had to write a 10 page essay based on writing claims and supporting