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The Importance Of Writing In Writing

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Everything started when I was in elementary school. Everything such as failure, quitting and absolutely no hope. I wasn’t even a teenager yet and I already hated school. School wasn’t the problem, writing was. I never realized how much I hate writing until it was time to take the ARMT test. The ARMT test was a standardized test that was given to us at the end of the school year. Throughout the whole year, I would be confident in my writing. Everything I wrote, I got an A on it. Even when it was time to test, I thought to myself, “you got the reading, writing, math, and social studies part. Science is the problem.” I would be sitting in the chair, with the test on the desk in front of me, carefully reading every question and bubbling in my answers. After spending 2 and a half long boring hours on the multiple choice part, it was time for the writing portion. Back then, the teachers didn’t call it “essays”, they called it the writing portion.When I read the topic, I thought it was a piece of cake. So I began to write. Everything that popped into my head, I wrote in the box they provided. The box was so little and I couldn’t write outside the box. Anything that was outside the box, wouldn’t be graded. So I used at least 3 pieces of paper. When I finished writing, I reread what I wrote. Everything was perfect. I had at least 5 sentences in each paragraph. I ended each sentence with a period. I didn't know anything about commas or semicolons at this age so I just had big black

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