The Influence Of Writing: My Love Of Books

Reading and writing is an important aspect in the lives of all individuals. With reading and writing, there are many levels of love and hate, and as much as I hate to say it, I was on the hate side for a very long time. Strangely enough, a teacher I had in high school, Mr. Shafer, change my whole outlook on writing.

Books open your perspective about life, they give you different perspectives and points of view. They carry knowledge and it

As a reader and writer I always faced given assignments with the intent of doing exceptional jobs and take a sense of pride in my work to complete my tasks. As a reader, I will bore myself through out an entire book and realize I didn 't understand a single thing. Although as a writer, I can go on for so long losing myself on a topic because it feels more interactive. Reflecting on my experiences as a reader and writer have been very bold, I never really found a joy or an interest to become the exceptional student who stands out amongst others because, I always felt ok with myself and my results with the way I did things.

If I could describe my relationship with reading and writing it would most likely have to be, improving. Of course I would assume the same happens to all students that their reading and writing skills improve as they continue with their education. For me reading has been a passion, so my reading skills are pretty advanced and I can say I am able to read well. In my case, being a child of two Hispanic parents, I do have a slight accent that can get in the way and make my reading a bit rough. Usually it is not so bad, only on certain words that either I do not know how to properly pronounce or certain letters that my accent acts as a physical barrier where I have to sound it out more carefully or work around my accent. While that is the #1 major setback I have during reading. Even with that setback I can still say that I am confident in my reading skills, reading at a well speed, improving, reading various books all that combined allows to be able to read almost anything. What I do enjoy about reading is that I see it being able to bring myself into that world that the author is writing about or to envision the story they’re telling as a movie. I like the idea of just sitting back or laying down with a good book for hours and getting deep into whatever I am reading. Personally once I pick up a good book it is usually hard for me to put it down without the paranoia of not knowing how it ends will eat me up and I usually finish a book within a few days.

In my childhood I was not taught the fundamentals of proper writing. Nor was it influenced in my household to dedicate time for writing. My father owned his own business, therefore, I always saw him writing inventory and receipts. As for my mother, I can recall her writing down messages from phone calls. At school I found little to no growth in my writing. When I did face a task that required legible writing I would seek help from my friend Sandra. This class is by far the first English course I have taken were I could truly say lectures are broken down enough for me to develop satisfactory growth. I am still a developing writer, but I have made a lot of progress because of influences of my own desire to learn, Professor Anna C. Morrison, and

Recently in my English course, our professor gave us an assignment in which we had to write an essay as if we were Native Americans meeting the Spaniards for the first time. When we wrote our first draft of our essays, we inter-changed amongst ourselves in order to peer-edit our rough drafts. As I received my essay, in which I thought I had done a great job writing, back I noticed a lot of the errors I had committed. Luckily, my classmates corrected them for me and made various suggestions to improve my essay.

Reading has shaped me into the person I am today. Reading has taught me that your imagination is your strongest asset to living life. Reading has given me the ability to experience things that will never happen in my life time. Books give me the chance to live through characters and to live the lives of those before me. So I ask why it is okay for someone to take away my right to expose myself to literature. There are books that shaped America that have been challenged because people believe that they are above a brilliant piece of literature and feel that others don’t need to be exposed to profanity, vulgar behavior, and violence. What makes these books so desirable to read is the idea that they are honest, and that they challenge our morals.

Books are the beginning of humankind, it’s the thing that said we are human it has everything about us written in a book on a shelf. It has your name, his name, her name, and my name written in it. It might be unsettling to hear, but it pretty much says I’m a free person. The most important part of books are used to inform us, describe us, and let us think out loud.

The ideas of reading and writing seem intertwined, in order to do one of them you must be able to do the other. Which, makes both equally as powerful as the other in language and literature. Most authors who talk about the ideology of reading and writing, compose their works mainly based off of outside sources, mainly. However, author/comic writer Alison Bechdel composes a story about writing the story and the troubles and hardships she encountered while writing. This oddly more intricate story, though offers a deeper look into Bechdel’s personal life in which she explains her own thoughts as an omnipotent narrator. As the narrator of her own story – showing the character’s (herself) actual thoughts apart from dialogue –

Books and writers impact readers by the power of words. Social inequality was incorporated in the novels The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, and The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. While reading these books, the text within the book impacts the reader’s perspective on society by the powerful words and examples shown throughout the novels.

Still being in high school I have little experience in big reading or writing. However, there are some books I have read and writing assignments I have had that influenced my skills and attitudes about Literature. One of those times was when I read the book Swordbird. I know that not everyone may know what that book is, but it did change how I wrote my own stories and how I created my own ideas.

Everyone has a way of expressing their emotions. Whether it’s painting a picture or creating some kind of art. Mine happened to be writing. I have always loved writing because I felt that writing was the only way that I could truly pour my heart and soul out. Whether it was an amazing day or an awful day, I would write it down. What writing meant to me was to confide in myself and write everything that was in my head onto paper. As much as I loved writing, I also despised it. I learned that journaling was completely different from academic writing and somehow, I found academic writing very stressful because of how difficult it was for me to write. There were a few teachers that said I was, in their own words, “an excellent writer”, but I knew those weren’t their most honest words. I wasn’t being hard on myself or was I in any way saying that to get sympathy; I was saying that because when it I took the college exams, I received an average writing score and I know an average score wouldn 't cut it. However, it wasn 't just writing that I struggled with; It was the personal statement that gave me the most stress and anxiety. The process of writing my personal statement made me doubt my abilities in being a good writer and consequently decreased my opportunities in winning scholarships and getting accepted into universities under the UC system.

The ideas of reading and writing seems intertwined; to do one of them one has to know how to do the other. Therefore, this makes both as powerful as the other in language and literature. Most authors who talk about the ideology of reading and writing, compose their works mainly based from outside sources and other author’s works. However, comic writer Alison Bechdel composes a story about the troubles and hardships she encounters while writing. This oddly more intricate story, offers a deeper look into Bechdel’s personal life in which she explains her own thoughts as an omnipotent narrator. As the narrator of her own story – showing the character’s actual thoughts apart from dialogue – Bechdel introduces her main theory: the creation of

It was the night of August second. We pull into the well-lit parking lot of Barnes and Noble. My younger sister and I jump out of the barely parked car and run to the door of our little safe haven. It is the place I love to be, sitting on the carpeted floor in front of shelves of alphabetized young adult novels. As I sit there, I scan the books for the next story I can escape into. A story that will help me shut the rest of the world out for a couple of chapters.

Reading and writing are two of the most important tools in my life, because without them I would not have an education. They form the basis of a class; for example, completing a lab in chemistry would not be possible without following a written lab procedure. These two skills are taught at such a young age, and as education advances students must continue to strive to reach a higher level. I can remember in elementary school, we were always pushed to reach the next reading level once we had successfully mastered the one we were on. It was always a competition for my sister and I to be at a higher level, I usually won. Even though I was excelling in reading it was the complete opposite for writing. It is something that has never come easy