The Importance Of Writing In Writing

It is essential to understand that classes taken in grade school do not give students a full understanding of each subject. With the topic of writing, there will always be a new lesson to learn, an aspect to improve, or a differing way to explain. Author Craig Vetter states in Bonehead Writing, “This is your enemy: a perfectly empty sheet of paper. Nothing will ever happen here except what you make happen.” Each story, essay, or response comes from a writer’s experiences. With each attempt at a new piece comes an underlying story of emotions the writer is facing. Each person’s writing is unique and the ideas people have are related to their past experiences and what they believe to be familiar with when deciding which writing style to use. As a high school student, I have learned many things about writing that helped me become the improved writer I am today, but the most essential advice I have received is practice makes perfect. Although there is no actual perfect way of writing, I have discovered that each essay I write, my writing improves. It is easier to spot mistakes, find areas to improve, and ponder elevated word choice to use.

Even as a young kid in elementary school, writing was one of my weakest subjects. I always sighed when one of my teachers mentioned a writing assignment. It started in elementary school and continues to affect me to this day. Starting out my junior year, I was hesitant to have Mr. Zollman as a teacher because I heard he was a tough grader. I soon found out that was true, but he ended up being the most helpful teacher to get me through my writing problems. Mr. Zollman helped me get through my struggles of writing papers, and he taught me to be a stronger writer.

I have always been pretty successful in school; however, writing has always been one of my greatest weaknesses. The overwhelming pressure of coming up with what to say and how to say it is extremely stressful for me, and I typically give up on perfecting whatever assignment I am working on. Up until high school, my writing had accomplished just enough to pass me on to the next course. My experience at Savannah Arts Academy, however, inspired me to approach writing in a completely new way.

I’ve never been the type to just love writing. Before my senior year in high school, I always felt like writing was more of a job. I knew writing had educational purposes, but it still didn’t make the process any better. My whole view on writing changed last year. My 12th grade English teacher, Heather Carpenter, influenced the way I viewed writing. My whole class was assigned to write almost 30 papers for a Senior Portfolio. Each paper had us reflect on our high school years or tell us about our future plans. When I first heard about this assignment, I immediately dreaded all the work. As we all worked through the assignment, my dread turned into enjoyment for writing, all because of my teacher and they way I started to view writing. Even though writing can be difficult and time consuming, it’s good to be an open minded writer because it can release inner thoughts and emotions and make a person willing to consider new ideas.

Throughout my college experience I have got the chance to learn some new things from a few different teachers on writing, writing hasn’t always been a strength of mine. When I was younger I had a hard time reading so that didn’t help my writing skills, it actually made it quite difficult. My first year at Western I had to take writing, I thought how hard could this be but I struggled and the professor I had was really hard on us, he was always pushing us to write more from the heart. I ended up getting a C+ in the class and had to have him the next semester for the next level. I didn’t always agree with the things he made us write about and how we had to read out heart filled papers in front of the class but every time I got up there and had

The relationship between imperfection and failure causes me to experience what is referred to as writer’s block. Writer’s block is a typical barrier causing students to fear not being successful in their academic careers (Horwitz, Stenfors, & Osika, 2013). I can attest the fear of failure in this class has me questioning my decision to re-enter the academic world. The fear of being judged in my work is another apprehension I have with writing. The writings I produce will face the judgment of not only my audience, but my perfect standards, and the standards of my facilitator. The trepidation of not reaching the potential and expectations that have been set is overpowering. In spite of my anxiety, as I continue to write I hope to overcome my fears and apprehensions to write well enough to appreciate the benefit of expressing my ideas.

As a student who has now been in college for a semester, I think that writing exemplifies how well you do in college. Others may argue that writing does not play a big role in determining if one does well in college or not. As I stand by my opinion of writing playing a big role in how well someone does in college, there are many things you still have to do over your years in college.

The best writing days of my entire life so far have produced the worst writing of my entire life so far. I was in seventh grade, and I spent hours upon hours writing and writing and writing. I wrote the most nonsensically hilarious stories, which I even posted online on a website called Wattpad. Among these posts, the most notable ones include a story in which my friends and I were kidnapped only to learn that we were all princesses in some foreign land that no one had ever heard of and a story in which I came to learn that I was actually a demigod, a daughter of Athena, in the universe of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. My works at this time of my life were embarrassingly terrible in terms of content and writing style, but I still

Writing is a necessity for everyone, including me. From a young age writing has helped me get what I need to be said through. Or it has helped me in remembering important times. It helps get your point across without having to say a word. This non verbal interaction was one of the biggest reasons I was able to tolerate school. From a young age, I absolutely loathe speaking in front of people, I still do but it has lessened. Why did I hate it so much? Because from 2nd grade to 6th grade, I was in speech therapy for stuttering. Combine that with stage fright and you can see exactly why I hate talking in front of people. During this time writing was something to be graceful for because it was an easier way to get my point across to my teachers and get the credit I deserve. Today I don’t stutter, but I do have stage fright and therefore am still thankful for being able to write assignments rather than giving a presentation.

Dear Mrs. Thompson, before this class I was not very interested in writing. I used to slack as a writer in elementary school. My aunt used to make me read many books on the weekends and in summer. Then she would have me write lengthy book reports on them. I hated hyer for them at the time but they really helped me out in the long run. Unfortunately, these habits did not follow me into middle school. Throughout middle school. It just did not seem like a skill I needed if I was going into the medical field. Little did I know… essays are part of so many assignments in high school. I wrote so many essays freshman year, even in my geophys class! Like what?! Then it was included so much during sophomore year. My first hour class was American Lit, this was such a drag, writing in the morning was torture, But, I made the best of it since I did not have many other classes that required me to write lengthy papers. I improved m writing skills all around in the class, more specifically, my spelling skills. As I went through junior year I began encountering much writing in my math class. My current class, Statistical Reasoning in Sports, has me writing so many paragraphs. I never would have thought this is how it would be. However, all these classes and assignments did improve my writing. The length of my papers increased drastically as well as my description in them. There are still many more skills I need to work on. Like my attention to detail while writing, I make many obvious

The written word is a form of illustration, an expression of a person’s mind and emotions. It’s as much of an art as painting or sculpting, and requires as much practice and experience as such things. This is a conclusion I have come to after my last two years of high school, where I took classes heavy on rhetoric and writing. In the beginning I had as much skill in writing as a kangaroo has skill in walking backwards (these animals cannot walk backwards). To succeed in these classes I needed to make major changes, not just in the effort of studying and completing extra credit work, but in the way I viewed writing as a medium.

The writer’s workshop allows students to become responsible for their writing and permits them to develop their own thoughts. The writer’s workshop is a time for all students to work along each other, no matter their abilities, and learn from each other. It allows for students to realize that they all having writing skills and talents. They will learn that it is okay to fail and it is okay to change your mind as they learn from other students. Graves (2013) suggested that students are given this time to choose what they enjoy writing and learning about. It is not a time for the teacher to assign topics.

Students seemed to be reluctant to write because of their lack of confidence and a general fear of making mistakes. From the moment they started writing in class, the emphasis lies on the rules, therefore, moulding the student to understand writing as a set of grammar and punctuation rules rather than a string of ideas aimed at communication. Teachers in ELI view proficient writers as writers who do not make mistakes in writing mechanics. They define good writing as writing that is error free in terms of structure and writing mechanics, “You know student they feel ashamed when you ask them to write one sentence. That’s why I always encourage them to write, write whatever you want write, forget about punctuation, forget about the spelling, forget about everything” (C2, line 55). Whenever students made a mistake, the mistake is usually pointed out due to a grammatical or punctuation error causing the students to view writing as grammar and spelling and generally writing mechanics.

A lot of people have something that comes easily to them. Everyone has a passion for something. And everyone has something that they believe in. We are all someone. Who are we? Who am I?

Writers need to have a multitude of skills when they write. These skills make any form of writing better than it would have been. Over time I have obtained many writing skills. All of which have been completely indispensable. If I had not learned these skills; my writing would not be nearly as good or productive as it is. Over this semester I have learned many skills that have made me a better writer.