Reflection Of Reading And Writing

Some of my favorite books, mostly Dr. Seuss, mostly got me going on my reading skills. It was easy. Word were easy to pronounce and they also had pic to help me with words I couldn’t even say. I felt important reading his books. Then, as I got older and my reading skills improved, chapter books came into play. Through my childhood I did not have it so easy. My brother passed and he mostly taught me how to correctly read. So when he left, I was stuck. I had other people in my family to help but once you get use to that favorite person helping you, you get attached. When it came to one of my other brother, it sucked. I usually get talked about constantly by him because he was older and always run his mouth when I came across a word that I didn’t know. Reading books became an easy escape at that age. It was something to do, and kept me occupied without having to talk to myself. It was also a way to read about other people and about their lives, which I think is a reason for my taste in books now. My parents and my favorite math teacher always told me that I'm a very bright individual and my accomplishments in other subjects prove that. I approached and passed science and surprisingly math. They both dealt with reading and understanding things that I needed to know. To me, writing equals to nothing more than stress and frustration. I thought was too stupid to waste effort

I sat in my fourth grade classroom staring at the bookshelf when suddenly I caught a glimpse of a dark blue book with a heroic being on the front. I lifted the heavy book and began reading Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. As soon as I started I fell into this mythical world where gods, monsters, and heroes all existed. It was a rollercoaster through my emotions. The thrill. The suspense. The surprising new book had a grasp on me, to stop reading it would be difficult. I felt attached. As soon as I started, I finished. Devastated, my chase of this feeling has never stopped, no other book has given me the same fulfillment as Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. As a young reader I would love to find the same joy and thrill (as I did back

Before this course started I didn’t believe I would become a better writer, but to a certain degree, I have. Since taking this course I have been able to grow and learn as a writer, editor, and creative. I have tried to improve particular aspects of my writing such as paying closer attention to my audience. I have learned writing skills and techniques from The Art of Rhetoric which I applied to my writings. In addition, an important and useful skill that I learned from this class was to start writing early. The next assignment was a working draft; it helped me write down all my thoughts and sources I had found and also determine if my focus was valid and in the right direction. After, having the working draft reviewed, the next drafts were

My biggest area of improvement this year as a writer was my style and structure. Last year, in English I, we learned a writing technique called “The Evidence Sandwich”. It was a basic claim, evidence, commentary, structure for writing body paragraphs. This was helpful when I was a freshman, but as a grew as a writer sophomore year, this made my writing sound static and robotic. As my writing progressed through the school year, I started breaking free from that structure, enabling me to add flow and style to my writing, while still maintaining the requirements for a successful body paragraph. Meanwhile, my writing started shifting from pure summary to actual literary analysis. These changes transformed my writing into more improved and polished papers. A challenge I faced this year was my writing process and my work ethic. At first I was very excited about the amount of essay writing time we had in class. However, as the year continued, I found the stress of sophomore year and all my other classes clouding my focus. This made it very hard to sit down in class and work on my essay without reaching to my other binder. I feel that if I had worked harder to focus in class and get more work done, my essays would have been much better because I would have had more material to revise ahead of time and ask Ms. Hursh questions on, and less work to do the night before the deadline. Next year, I will aim to use my time in class wisely so I have more time at home to focus on college and other junior year items.

Writing has always been something I dread. It’s weird because I love talking and telling stories, but the moment I have to write it all down on paper, I become frantic. It’s almost as if a horse race just begun in my mind, with hundreds of horses, or words, running through my mind, unable to place them in chronological order. Because I struggle to form satisfying sentence structure, it takes me hours, sometimes even days, to write one paper. It’s not that I think I’m a “bad writer,” I just get discouraged easily. Needless to say, I don’t think highly of my writing skills. When I was little I loved to both read and write. I read just about any book I could get my hands on, and my journal was my go to for my daily adventures. Although it’s

My life has been an interesting twist and turn of events, from when I was a little kid I have issues with my school work and have had a lot of self-doubt in my ability to read, write, and be a confident person in my literacy studies. Reading and writing has never been something I am good at until recent.

As a young child, reading did not come easy not even the slightest. I remember being held back in first grade because my mother felt my reading was not up to par, boy was she correct. My older brother and younger sister were in the same boat as I. One after another we repeated the first grade in an attempt to strengthen the skill which is still challenging to this day.

According to a survey done by the Pew Research Center in 2016, “About a quarter of American adults (26%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form.” I believe I form part of this demographic group because I don't like reading books. I would say that my past experiences have made me into being a non reader. Therefore, I will explain to you my process of how I learned to read and who influenced my success, what were my favorite books back then and now, and how my past experiences have shaped me into the reader I think I am.Thus, I believe that I am not a reader.

My experience in English 202 has been an interesting and informative one. Prior to taking this course, I thought that I knew what the English major was all about: reading and writing. Both of those things come easily to me, so I expected this class to be a piece of cake.

Writing this piece was a process. I first scoured news sites like the New York Times and The Atlantic to find articles that piqued my interest. From there I analyzed whether or not I was a member of the discourse community of the article, and if the topic was something I wanted to work with. After choosing my article, I read it multiple times to get a strong grip on the argument and the rhetorical devices the author used. After I picked the device I wanted to focus on, I collected examples from the article and analyzed how this made the audience feel and how this elevated the author’s argument. Writing an outline like this expedited the writing process for me because my ideas were organized and I had a clear plan of how I wanted my paper to look. It was difficult editing my paper because I originally used two rhetorical devices and I had to relate logos in a different way, in order to follow the requirement of using one device. The re-wording and formatting of logos, the device I did not want to focus on, was a challenge but I think I was able to incorporate it in a way that did not hinder my development of pathos.

As a child I really missed out on the reading and writing train. I grew up in a house with a mom who loved literature and read often in her free time, my dad on the other hand probably has still to this day never picked up a book in his life. Growing up my little brother and I spent most of my time with my dad so we never really got to see the true art of reading and writing. Throughout high school I spent most of my time in the pool or glued to my phone which left me still oblivious to the world of reading and writing. It wasn’t until senior year when my life was altered that I began to cling to reading and writing as a way to escape.

Before I understood the meaning of words or letters, I loved to read. There is a picture of me in my childhood photo album, where I am sitting in a wagon surrounded by books. I am wearing red plaid overalls and a bright green shirt, my hair is in pigtails and I am fixated on the book which rests on my lap. Although I do not remember this moment, I can tell you exactly what I was doing: I was examining the pictures of the book and making my own story. I was pointing to each individual word on the page and saying what I thought it was based on the story I created. This was my favorite way to pass time at this age, staring at pictures and pretending that I could read as if I were an adult.

I thought about how I wanted to write this week’s reflection for a few days. This one is going to be different. My story begins at the end of the week. This week’s reflections are supposed to focus on syntax. I did not even know what that is so I had to look it up. After studying in depth, I understand that I should focus on making a well formed sentence. That doesn't seem to hard.

For many students, writing an essay is not their strong suit, and I was one such student until this year. In middle and high school, I dreaded writing essays mainly because I despised how we were forced to follow a strict format to develop our ideas. The universal structure that I was taught included an introduction, 3 to 5 body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. Even within each paragraph, we had to adhere to follow a strict outline. The introductory paragraph had to be written with an attention getter as the first sentence, followed by introductory details on the topic and a thesis that outlined the subject of each body paragraph. Body paragraphs had to start with a topic sentence that described the focus of the paragraph while connecting it back to the thesis. After the topic sentence, claims and supports should follow. The conclusion should restate the thesis without copying it verbatim from the thesis; in addition, as you restate the thesis, you should include some of the details discussed in the body paragraphs. Finally, you end the conclusion by connecting the focus of the paper to something greater.

Learning about another country was something I was not use to before this class. In other classes we would study the history of America and only briefly discuss other countries. The same was true for literature, so studying British literature was something different. This class helped me to learn about how literature and history are linked together. The writings of a certain time period can show a direct reflection of the events of the time. This class also helped me develop as a writer. The many strategies I have learned this semester have helped me to become a better writer with more professional standards through the development of writing strategies, revising strategies, and research strategies.