The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Reading

While my love for reading sprouted, I soon became obsessed with writing. My passion for reading only helped my writing skills to prosper. In fifth grade, I had a teacher who very well understood that reading and writing were important. Every day, we had a half an hour to write about whatever we wanted. Boy, my imagination ran wild. I often wrote fiction stories. My favorite part was when the teacher allowed us to share our stories with the whole class at the end of the week. This one activity really sparked the beginning of my love for writing.

When I am writing narratives, I use many different characteristics to describe the characters, and when I was watching Ted Talks and doing the chart, it made me think about the speaker’s features and how I can use them to describe my characters better. Also, I use my time efficiently I don’t fool around and talk to others. I get right to my work and complete it. I accept writing criticism very well too, I use it to improve my writing. Another strength that I have in writing is I have excellent spelling, and I punctuate very well. Likewise in writing, I also have my strengths in reading. While reading a novel, I can illustrate what is going on in the book or the story in my mind which helps me understand that story more. It helps me to ‘get into’ the book. Also, another strength that I have in reading is that I can annotate and get information out of books very well. That, coupled with the fact that I am very good at figuring out hidden messages or finding the theme of the book. Notes I take from the novel help when I am flipping back through the book to support my theme or message with evidence.

I think my writing strengths would be fast working once the ideas are down and the effort I put into my writing. Some improvements would be getting my ideas down faster and revising them quicker. Another would be getting my ideas

I think my greatest strength as a writer is that my sound ideas are always clear. The thesis and the body paragraphs in my essay are always supported by evidences and details from the book. In my essay, I always have a decent beginning and ending.

The first strength I have when writing is I have a big imagination. For example when writing a fictional story, I like to have a story where almost anything can happen. Another strength I have when writing is I am good at writing long stories. I feel that most people have trouble writing long essays but, to me, writing long essays comes easily. On the other hand I have some writing weaknesses that I need to improve on.

I chose the article “Disliking Books at an Early Age” by Gerald Graff. He is a teacher of literature and states his advantage as a teacher since he hated and feared books while growing up. Graff discovered something that provided reading to be more appealing. He engaged himself into the text where reading became fun. Growing up Graff was raised in an ethnically mixed Chicago neighborhood where he feared that if he had anything to do with books, he would get beaten up. Graff, however, would sit down and try to read novels, but he could not relate to any of the text, he would just stare blankly at the pages. Later Graff’s fear developed into flunking college. Graff then discovered a new way of reading finding a way to make reading fun. Graff put himself into the text, a sense of personal engagement.  The main point in Graff’s article is to read at an angle and keep an open mind while being patient.

As a writer, I have strengths and weaknesses. I am a really creative writer, and I have really great typing skills. I will continue to read a lot of fiction books to keep that creativity. My weakness is that I am not so good at writing nonfiction-type, papers. To fix that, I will read more books that are nonfiction, so I understand how they are written.

When writing, I believe my strengths are my abilities to stay on topic and provide relevant quotes. As I read the passage(s) that go along with the essay, I read thoroughly; therefore, I can find quotes within the passage(s) that bolster the argument. As I write the essay, I stay

Reading and Writing Throughout my life reading and writing have impacted my life in many different ways. It has helped me express myself. Reading and writing have never been my strongest subjects; however, if I find a book that spikes my interest, I would never put it down. Those books are the ones that have impacted my life so much and how I think about life.

In my opinion, the reason for this assignment is for the teacher to see where we are in our reading, and writing. Reading to me must happen when I am interested in something for example, a movie because I enjoy reading about the plots but everyone is different. Another example is a graphic novel, because you can understand the concept or plot a lot easier than you would do in a regular novel. In regular books, you have so many things going on and you aren’t able to understand what is happening then you end up getting the wrong idea. Writing is just about the same for example, I can’t write about something that I know nothing about or interested in. Therefore, I am writing this paper to show you my weaknesses and not my strengths because I

Ever since I remember, I have always enjoyed writing. The fact that I can be able to put together a paper and have someone get my idea just with the first paragraph is mind blowing. Sometimes I can’t express myself through speaking so writing down my thoughts on paper has always been my therapy but also an important thing in my everyday life.

Ever since I was in ninth grade, I leaned towards writing subjects naturally. They always appealed to me because it was a medium to express thought and feeling. Most importantly, writing classes would allow you to tell a story, which for me, is the funnest. No matter what the medium may be, stories are always something appealing to me. In ninth grade, I knew no one but at least people had a story to tell. They were one of the most appealing stories I had heard. One classmate explained how she had to overcome autism and often times, she was looked down on. Another classmate told us how he had to live with an alcoholic father who is in prison for murder. No matter what the story may be, I am always entertained and no matter what, I always get something out of them.

Writing is an amazing tool and talent. It is incredible to be able to express my feelings and thoughts on paper through thoroughly thought over words in fancy fictional poetry or possibly persuasive prose, utilizing fun literary devices and bending my readers’ minds to feel whatever it is I intend for them to feel. As a reader, it is awe-inspiring to immerse myself in the worlds that authors paint for me in their verbose narrations. I tend to very much enjoy both reading and writing as long as I am not being forced to do either.

Musical: I love music I believe most of us do, I love the rhythms and beat that come with the music it’s a beautiful thing. I think I study a lot better with music. For example, if I am studying and listening to country music which I love it helps me to ease

Reading and music. Both of these are some of my favorite forms of entertainment. After reading Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn and the beginning of Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, I began to see parallels between characters in the books and lyrics to songs I love. Both tell an engaging story that also be related to different forms of entertainment