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The Importance Of Reading And Writing

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Reading and writing has never come very easy to me. There have been a lot of factors that hinder me from being able to read and write well. English has always been my least favorite class during elementary school throughout high school and it still is now in college. I can count the number of books that I’ve actually been able to completely finish reading on one hands. In school, whenever we were assigned to read however many chapters of a book at night, I would just look up the spark notes for that chapter because I have such a hard time reading. By the way, reading the spark notes does not work as a substitute for reading the book instead. My main struggle when it comes to reading and writing is the fact that I’m dyslexic. When I was in …show more content…

If I have to write a 5 page paper on “What is your favorite thing to do and why”, I could write about it for hours without being distracted. When it comes to reading I also have a lot of trouble staying focused and paying attention to the book I’m reading. Whenever I read, I find myself always drifting off and thinking about something else so I end up having to reread everything that I just read because when I read it the first time I didn't pay attention to it. This is really discouraging because I end up having to reread the whole chapter sometimes and I get tired of it and end up putting the book down instead or trying to read it again. When this happens I always end up falling behind on my reading and when I fall behind, I will either skip to what chapter I’m supposed to be on and be confused through the rest of the book, or I’ll just stop reading the book completely because I already lost all of my motivation to continue. All of these things are really discouraging and make it so that I don’t enjoy reading and writing which really isn’t good, especially because I’m in college now and have to write a lot more than I used to. I have more responsibilities now that require more of my time and I put reading and writing on the bottom of my priority list. My hope is that one day I’ll somehow just flip from hating English to loving it for no reason at all but that’s obviously unrealistic and never going to actually happen. All I need

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