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The Importance Of Writing

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Over the years I have become very familiar with writing long papers, reading books and articles, and researching different topics. I can remember not knowing where to even start writing a paragraph in third grade to not knowing where to start writing a one-page paper in middle school. I finally got to high school and two to three-page essays was all I knew. In elementary I was already reading chapter books, and writing summaries for submission. By high school I was reading two books at a time. The only thing that was new to me beginning high school was research.
Writing is very exciting to me at times. I like expressing myself in diary entries. I enjoy writing about how my day starts and concludes. When I write, new things are always …show more content…

I like these types of books because of the style and the message. They are not structured, so you will see a lot of slang and misspelled words. I find myself putting pictures to the names easily because I know people who experience the things that go on in the books. I am the type of reader who stop and think about what might happen next, and I also make a lot of connections. I am the type of person who loves to find out new things. I like researching things I am interested in. At the end of my twelfth-grade year I had to submit a ten-page research paper on any topic I chose. I chose LeBron James, my favorite basketball player. I already knew things about him as a basketball player but as I researched about him I found out a lot of other stuff that I never knew before. That is what is so great about research. I used many sources, but only the ones that was valid and up to date. The process I took made the paper very easy to write. I made note cards, bibliography cards, an annotated bibliography, and an outline. After doing all of this, my research paper was pretty much complete. I just had to put it together. I have never used Academic Search Complete or Academic Onefile, but I am familiar with Discuss. It is a Library database that I used quite a bit in high school. I used it on my ten-page research paper. In conclusion, as I think about my writing, and reading, they both kind of correlate. I both like writing

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