The Importance Of Reading And Writing

The impact both reading and writing have had on me throughout my school years has always been changing. While I have always struggled with reading comprehension, and anxiety in putting my thoughts into words when writing, I have found some relief when I am able to connect to a character in a book, or given freedom to find a topic I am interested in; which makes me excited and passionate about sharing my thoughts through writing.

Everyone around me was silently sitting, staring down at their laps. Me, on the other hand, would just sit there and stare at a wall, while humming to myself. I never understood why all of my classmates enjoyed reading books. Correction; I actually just did not understand what was wrong with me, and why I did not enjoy reading like all of the other kids did. Reading never sparked my interest due to many reasons, including; being distracted, being laughed at, and the books I was forced to read.

Although I have not appreciated writing like I should, it has increased my knowledge on many subjects. From reading vivid stories to reading elaborative articles on difficult subjects, I've developed the skills necessary to understand at least the minimum that is required to continue through the subject. Because of this, I appreciate what I've learned from reading and writing countless short stories, elaborative essays, and reading books on subjects I am interested in.

In my younger years of elementary school, I would spend most of my free time writing. One of my teachers taught me how to cultivate my active imagination by turning my thoughts into stories. I filled up three notebooks with fictions by the time I was in 6th grade. After that year, I would only write occasionally until my passion was sparked again around 10th grade. Since then, I’ve been practicing improving both my creative and professional writing skills and wish to incorporate them as a large part of my career.

Reading and writing have always played an essential part in my life. From being a kid to my pre-teenage to college, I have managed to hone both skills to my fondness. However, even though it importantly helped, schooling did not influence me that much, but I managed to continue developing those skills I had into something else. Many unique things shaped and influenced my learning, and now reading, and writing has made think different and fast in responding to situations. I know even if I have nothing unusual to do, I’ll still have my talent and knowledge. To my achievement, I hope to develop those skills further so that I may accomplish my goals.

Reading and writing are a big part of our life, it doesn’t matter if we just read the headline of the news, or the signs saying railroad crossing ahead or forms for work. Writing, on the other hand, is similar, people write daily without even realizing it, for example, writing for class, filling out a form at work, or just writing for pleasure, it is all part of our daily lives. Even though not realizing how big of a part reading and writing has played in my life I have slowly started to acknowledge the little reading and writing moment in my life.

Reading and writing are crucial elements every student needs to understand in order to become successful. Reading and writing are necessities for everyone, regardless of their profession. Personally, I understand math more than reading and writing; the straight-forward answers allow me to perceive the concept clearly. Despite the fact that I still receive an “A”, English is still a struggle for me. Although I find reading and writing necessary, these subjects are harder for me to understand when compared to the logicality and precision of math.

Everybody has a fond memory of laying around with their parents one evening reading a book out loud, but why is it that as we grow up our love of reading slowly disappears. This made me wonder, what about schools reading and writing programs makes students dislike the subjects so much? Many people believe majority of students start to grow an exponential disliking for reading and writing once it starts being routinely assigned. Once a student enters junior high reading and writing are no longer something people want to call a hobby, although it is not in vast amounts this is where schools start making a dent on students’ enjoyment of the subjects. Now in high school this is where they start the “preparing us for college” idea as they hand students an excessive amount of papers to read and analyze, all while trying to write multiple essays. Schools ruins students’ enjoyment for reading and writing because there is no freedom, classes are all about test preparation and the homework load is too much.

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read, “wrote Mark Twain. No matter what part of the world, the different cultures and languages, there has and always will be the written form that must be read to understand our human counterparts and history. Reading can be traced back as far as 3100 BC with content written on limestone and still very much used to day with technology as simple as a text message. The most commonly used language both spoken and literary around the world is English. Growing up in Jamaica, my first experience with literary content was a mixture of English and Patwa, which is a Creole-based language with a predominate English roots. I have been fortunate enough to receive the education necessary to be able to communicate and advance in today’s world through reading and writing. My encounters with words and memories have vastly shaped my academic life.

Reading and writing doesn’t connect with me, compared to everyone else. With reading and writing being one the major struggles I have, it was and still is very difficult for me to find my true reading and writing skills. In high school, I was in Adv. English courses throughout the 4 years, and I was an average kid in the class. We are forced to read a lot of articles about today main topics and issues, romantic story poems, and novels such as, Beowulf, The Tempest, and To Kill a Mockingbird. But my absolute favorite reading that we did was, Edgar Allan Poe poems. The way he uses that evil, dark, and scared tone, is what gets me the chills in a scary way. But with all other novels that I have done, I couldn’t really get into the readings. It then carried on to my free read and it was the worst part about English, because I don’t like to read for enjoyment and this would also go for writing as well. With writing, I can never get my thoughts on a paper correctly, so I would always be afraid of writing any type of essays, including this one. I feel as if writing were a punishment for me, because it takes so much time, thinking, and processing my thoughts or ideas for an essay. Summary, research, and argument were my worst enemy in high school. But with creative writing, I feel most comfortable doing, because I feel as if it's an easy way for me to express myself by writing whatever I'm feeling inside. It’s been a rough time with both reading and writing, this then puts my

Learning is a part of our daily lives. We learn many new things from family members, friends, and even ourselves. Most importantly, we learn from literature. This includes, books, movies, newspapers, and the Internet that influence us on a daily basis. As a society it’s important to learn the fundamental knowledge of how individuals behave. This concept is known as humanity, which allows individuals to understand the aspect of human society and culture to help educate the future generation. This is done through human interaction. What are the literate arts said to be go be good for? A question that is repeated in different contexts and with different inflections by the writers I have been reading. Three authors prove the point of reference in the benefits of reading and writing. Mary Louise Pratt in “Arts of the Contact Zone” shows that contact zones are places where, cultures, languages, literacy, and ideas all meet to form many different and interesting views. Then, Richard Rodriguez in “The Achievement of Desire” discussed how the literate arts transformed him to a new person with greater knowledge. Thirdly, Richard E. Miller in “The Dark night of the soul” focused on history impacting individuals in many ways. The literate arts have taught us to view literature in different ways, whether they are from others, our personal experiences, or through history.

Reading and Writing are essential aspects of life that influence a person’s character and outlook. For all ages, reading and writing expands the mind and exposes the idea to experience new opportunities. Studies show that youthful minds absorb the most information, so learning major concepts are best at earlier ages. My first memories that I can recall of learning how to read and write began at the early age of five years old. Both subjects were such fascinating concepts at the time and my curiosity craved to know more. Fortunately, now that I’ve grown older, reading and writing remain valuable to me because of the circumstances that occurred throughout my life.

If you ponder about it, the majority of people wouldn’t make it in this world we live in today if they didn’t understand the concepts of reading and writing. After all, reading is everywhere, far and wide, and is a very important, as well as a necessary part of the human life. Daily lifestyle includes reading road signs, magazines, billboards, texts, newspapers, emails, books, labels and so on. Over the years of learning how to properly read and write, my family and teachers massively impacted the techniques that I use today by reading me books that have accounted for enormous parts of my life. They provided me with unforgettable memories that I am thankful for today as I use the advice I have taken from them throughout my life.

As a learner, writer, and a reader I consider myself to be strong. In my opinion, these traits add up to create a good English student. Over the course of this year, I have improved greatly as a student and as a learner. Comparing new works of this year to older works I composed at the beginning of this year, I believe that I have not only evolved as a writer, but as a reader and a learner as well. I strongly believe this has been one of the most improved years of my Language Arts career.

Reading and writing are both important; you can’t have one without the other. They are skills that are increased constantly due to little things that most times are not noticed. Whether it is from a book to a poem, there will always be a way that it helps out your school performance. Reading and writing in general only helps absorb information, and enhance leisure or school related writing tasks. It has also made life itself so much easier because reading and writing are so beneficial for school and for life. How much you read and write today, will somehow affect your future job, family, position, or even your salary.