The Passion Of Reading And Writing

Students are required to take English all four years of high school to improve and develop skills for higher education. We read different types of literature to learn morals and explore new ideas. With writing assignments of résumés, formal letters, and essays, students establish a foundation for future responsibilities in college or a job field. Vocabulary expansion is woven throughout everyday tasks in the English classroom; word choice is crucial to our professional and educational futures. Accumulated writing and reading skills are used in preparation for standardized testing, such as the SAT and ACT. English class improves the confidence in students with reading, writing, and speaking skills. In four years of English, written literature greatly impacts one’s learning experience.

After reading those two articles, I think college writing is totally different from high school writing; we need to put much more effort on developing our research, thinking and writing skills. In college writing, we will use tools like academic writing situation to help us in creating papers. And we must be responsible for all assignments and works in order to be successful. It is not difficult to write, but writing with professional vocabulary and correct format with our own fresh thoughts is challenging. As Strong said, “Writing is thinking.”, there is no perfect first draft, as long as we rewrite with consistent thinking, we will be a qualified college writer.

Thonney states, “a study of scholarly research articles from six disciplines provides insight about academic writing that composition instructors can use to prepare students to write across the curriculum” (2011 pg. ). Moving forward, Joseph Williams and Lawrence McEnerney’s essay, “Writing in College” targets students currently enrolled in college which is clear from the title itself and its first opening sentence at the beginning of the first paragraph. The author states, “Some students make very smooth transitions from writing in high school to writing in college, and we heartily wish all of you an easy passage” (Williams and McEnerney page 1). Throughout the essay, the author provides a set of structure and tips that first year college students should know when writing an academic paper. Among this paper, we are able to see that there are students whose instructors are dissatisfied with their paper because it is “lacking something” ( Williams and McEnenery’s pg1 ), it isn’t “quite there” or “You haven’t change”. Both passages consist of informative research that first year college students can identify themselves.

As seniors about to embark on a journey into the adult world, it’s important to be prepared for what college professors expect in an essay. The article, What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates, was very insightful on how different the rules are. It states the different skills and mindsets an incoming freshmen must have to succeed in more advanced writing classes. It explains how high school and college writing differ, also how the two are similar. In order to be successful in school and in life one must become independent and open to change.

When I was first introduced to reading in the kindergarten, my mother would always say I had a book stuck with me no matter where I went. Fast forward it to twelve years later I still have a book stuck on me. However, now it’s no longer picture books, but science ones. My passion is to learn, specifically about everything. In my spare time, I read books of empowerment, success, persuasion, psychology and the brain.

One day my mom decided to take me to the local library to look for some books because she didn't want me to fry my brain watching reruns of Spongebod all day. Once we got there my mom guided me to the children's section and told me to choose a book to take home. As I scanned across the shelves filled with hundreds of books, one book in particular stood out the most from all of them. The cover is a dark blue, Cinderella embroidered cursively in gold and the glass slipper in silver on the front. Each page has a linen feel to it and the pages have a creamy color to them. The book seemed used and had rough edges, but it had its own story to tell. I took the book home and stayed up late reading it with my mom. The book had a magical essence to it that it took me into the world of Cinderella. I vividly played out the story in my head, like I was creating a movie. After that I would go back every 2 weeks and check out multiple books, but every time I would recheck out Cinderella. When I’d read the book I’d get the same feeling of joyfulness from when I first read it. That's when my love of reading began.

When I first walked into class I was a little nervous, but when the lecture began and the rules were stated I realized that it wasn’t that bad and that high school English is similar to college. English for me has always been one of the hardest subject for me, I always had to struggle in English classes, due to that circumstance I become more prepared for bigger phases ahead which make this year very important to me since it's a fresh start. My expectations in this class are to become a more improved reader, writer, and to expand my knowledge in college. Throughout the beginning of my highs school experience writing was introduced to me; I had just transferred from overseas, I knew how to speak the American language, but I struggled with reading

Reading can expand the human mind and open the doors of creativity. Reading allows people to go into another dimension, but that is starting to fade, according to Brian Sztabnik in the article, Igniting a passion for Reading. He is a retired English teacher who discussed his teaching techniques. He spoke about the repetitive teaching methods he used while reading a book. "I have taught English on the secondary level for the past 12 years, and for many of those years I taught books only one way: I would hand out a set of novels, and study guides to go along with them"(Igniting a Passion for Reading). He claimed that his methods did not help his students gain a passion for reading, for they only retained the knowledge until it was no longer needed.

Some may think that high school and college reading and writing are similar and that it’s just the next level up but it 's not, they differentiate in many ways. College reading and writing is more than that, it’s a completely different world when compared to high school. It’s much more advanced and complexed. Some ideas that can be compared are the way we annotate, understand text, assignment topics, the depth of research, and so on. This is important to understanding how much more you can get out of college vs. just getting a high school reading and writing education.

When you think of high school and college you would expect two different strategies and standards that are to be done. In high school most people are use to the method most teachers taught us which was the 5 paragraph essay. That's what was required for us as a writer when we were in high school but now that I have read and seen what is really expected I notice that what real writing is, the ability of being able to express yourself as much as possible without having boundaries. In high school students are just use to their teachers giving them the freedom of writing whatever they want but yeah being able to concrete their opinion in such a short writing structure. Some valuable tips that are given to us as writers is being able to be open mind and write using the conversation method.

The transition from high school into college can be one that many students can struggle with. There are so many things that have to be adjusted to that things can seem overwhelming at times. This is something that those who choose to go to college have to go through though. One of the big things that students find difficult is the ability to adjust to the style of writing that is required in this higher level of education. They are accustomed to the typical format of shallow writing that is satisfactory to receive a grade that is good enough to get them through to the next assignment. Writing in college is useful to help throw those old patterns out the window and bring in better ones. Having different standards in the grading, volume, and description, writing in college helps to develop an individual as a writer by expanding them into a more competent version of themselves.

situations that are presented to me. Alternatively, I use writing to settle the rage within myself

Before this summer we were still in high school, thinking about where we were going to be for the next four years of our lives. About what we were going to study and what we want to do for the rest of our lives. Now I am just thinking back to everything I learned over the years, it was all just teachers pushing a lot of information into our heads trying to make us memorize everything we needed to know. There were only a select few that really tried to teach us and not just ram information into us. I remember my sophomore year in high school my English teacher was also the coach for most of the school’s sports. Even though he had so much to think about he still took the time to try and make us learn in an unique way. Instead of having us write essays about things we did not want to read he would make us debate. Everyone would get excited because why not put something teens like doing with something they do not like doing. Arguing, something they liked doing, and English, something that most did not like to do. We sat through a lot of pointless class periods that we thought we were not going to learn anything from. But now I realize that what they were saying was important. They each had their own way to teach but all were teaching the same thing to some extent. Now we have to face the adjustments between high school writing and college writing and also everything else it brings to our plates.

When you need a quiet place to read, study, or do homework, what comes to mind. I know most people will say the library. This is where I go to do homework, study, and write papers. A library has a lot of meaning to me because growing up, I went to the library to just read for fun or when I needed some time to myself. It is a quiet place where I can be alone with my thoughts. This is also where my passion for books and reading started. Since I was always in my school library, I one day decide to read a book. The first books that I read was the Magic Tree House series, the Bone comic books series and the Kingdom Heart manga series. I love and enjoy reading these chapter books, comics, and manga. I especially love the Harry Potter series and anything that Walter Dean Myers had written. JK Rowling and Walter Dean Myers are my favorite authors to read and enjoy. In general I am very comfortable with reading, books, and the library. They helped made me who I am as a person growing up and they still do. I remembered in middle school my English teacher told me after reading a book, you as a person change a little bit and you may not notice at first. I do believe that she was right and as I reflected back, books have changed me in a good way as a person.

When I first started college I did not know what to expect with an English class. I liked writing about topics that interested me, but high school did not allow me to do that. I took American History and we would have to write