Write An Essay About Me As A Writer

My relationship with writing is hard, my writing doesn’t always flow well. My writing also doesn’t always come easily to me. More often than not, I have to sit and think for long periods of time, for to come up with ideas on how to start my essays. When I start with paper and pen my hand will start aching, and that makes it difficult to concentrate on what I am trying to express through my writing as it takes my mind off what I am currently thinking of writing down. Writing is the course I have always struggled with the most throughout high school, and through my first year of college.

I enjoy writing because I can let my imagination flow into words. There are no rules to writing so you can write about anything. Writing is one of my skills and I love to write stories. I also won second place last year for the best writing.

The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

When presented with the question, “who are you as a writer?”, I was speechless at first. But after thinking about it, I realized who I am as a writer has been influenced by so many different sponsors throughout my life and there was not a short, concrete answer. Brandt mentions that “literacy is sponsored by people, institutions, and circumstances that both make it possible for a person to become literate and shape the way the person actually acquires literacy.” (Brandt 43) My attitude towards writing has been influenced by teachers, both negatively and positively, by my mother, and by academic assignments over the years. My answer to the question can only be answered by a narrative of my writing life. I have convinced myself that I am a terrible writer, and when presented with a writing assignment, I get anxious instantly. I see writing as a burden and a huge obstacle that gets placed in my life. Academic writing is not fun, but something I value due to the fact that we are a grade driven society. When writing, I write to the guidelines in order to receive points for the requested criteria. The reason being, I gave up on expressing my own ideas because I had been shut down by so many teachers throughout my education. I tried to write down what came to my mind and put my own twist on things, but that was not the “right” way to write papers. In order to make both my teachers and my grades happy, I wrote what they wanted to hear, and even then I was not to the level they

In my first “Who I am as a Writer” paper I stated how one of the areas that I needed to improve was writing. I went into more depth talking about how my writing is not descriptive enough and how I cannot grab the reader's attention. Even though I still need to continue making improvements, I have gotten better in both of these aspects. Compared to my papers in high school my introduction paragraphs have improved.

The relationship that I have with writing is complicated and we don’t always get along. Although we tend to make up even when I get frustrated and want to quit. When being assigned a paper I struggle with what to write. My words seem to never come out the way I would like and I’m always having to start over and over again. It starts to get frustrating after a while. Needless to say writing isn’t one of my favorite things to do but it’s apart of our everyday lives like texting, sending emails, posting on Facebook, Twitter, and so on. I personally have only used texting as my main daily form of writing since I graduated high school. So therefore I would like to refresh my memory of what I learned in high school and widen my use of writing while in this writing course.

I first started writing around when I was in the third grade. I loved to read fiction and I wanted to write it too. That year I had a story about my hair published in an Akron newspaper. Getting that story published made me feel really excited about something and I wanted to continue to do it forever. Eventually, we had to start to learn to write in cursive and I hated it so, I slowed down on writing during school and at home. I would still get good grades on reports and writing assignments but I never enjoyed it as much. I could never find the desire to write but when I did write I was never happy with the outcome.

As a freshman at Linden High School, I have learned that writing provides students with the necessary communication and thinking skills necessary to succeed in school. Before I enrolled in ACL, I was a lazy writer who detested every aspect of writing. Now, I have learned to embrace writing challenges and learn from my mistakes. Writing persuasive and research papers proved to be difficult for me because it required organizational and research skills. As the year progressed, I began feeling more confident in my writing skills and looked forward to expressing my ideas on paper. As a writer, I have gained the knowledge and tools to grow as a student.

I remember my freshman when I first entered college I had a hard time in most classes because writing papers was very difficult for me. In the past two years now I have been working with so many tutors and during study hall. This has helps me to improve my writing skills better even more better, now I am getting great comment from my teaches telling me that I have improve so much better over the last past year. My soccer coach to-do- list format is still helping me to set up my assignment that is due next day and manage my

As a child, I had a passion for read and write. I was very proud of my first poem project that displayed a smiling sun in the corner of the page. Books were a way for me to be someone else to be somewhere else. Lucky for me Harry Potter was all the rage during my elementary school discussions. At that time I caught the writing bug and would write anything that would come to mind. Characters and stories came to me at all times of the day. However, around age 14 I could no longer write a word I wrote interesting outside of school assignments. I became a teenager and with that I lost my creativity. I start something and it ends up in as a paper ball in the trash. I put the pen to the paper and I can’t get anything out. So here I am searching

As a child, I had no help from my parents when it came to school work. My mom worked as a field worker and my dad as a truck driver, I normally saw them around 8 at night, they came home exhausted and prepared for another early day for work. My parents lacked skills I was being taught at school and no experience speaking English. Consequently I had no one to rely on for help on homework and had no older sibling or anyone else around to help me out. Learning how to read and write properly was difficult, Spanish had been my first language.

Writing essays is something I do often, however I do not consider it my strong suit. I wrote my first structured essay as a sophomore in high school. Not knowing how to set up a paragraph or even what a thesis statement was, I struggled. As we wrote a tremendous amount of essays throughout the year, I began to appreciate the concept of writing. As the essays became more complex my thoughts became more impenetrable. Grammar, diction, and form of writing are a few small aspects, that with dedication and repetition has improved my writing skills.

I have come a long way as a writer. I did not grow up learning English. Which left me not knowing how to properly write even a single sentence. I knew nothing about proper sentence structure nor what word to use. Over the years I have tried my best to practice and learn the different rules in writing. This portfolio serves as the evidence of my journey as a writer. This portfolio includes tools that I have acquired all throughout the course which I will be using all throughout my writing career. Each of the materials in this folder show how I broke the chains of unhappiness in writing, and feel the freedom to write what I believe in. Throughout my journey I had made numerous mistakes. I took these mistakes and learned from them. Development in writing reflects a continuous process where I will make numerous mistakes and learn from them to better myself as a writer.

Three days and several rough drafts later I am finally ready to type this essay. You see, I am not a writer- I don’t have the patience nor the talent, it seems. For as long as I can remember writing has proved to be quite the obstacle throughout the whole of my academic career. And, yet, I have had so many (teachers, fellow students, etc.) compliment me on my so-called skills. I have never understood that. If I am so talented at writing, why then must it be so difficult?

I have never been a good writer as far as I can remember. It has always been that way, no matter what strategies I have employed to improve my writing ability be it making an outline or planning out the paper in any way. It didn’t matter if I was doing a research paper, a reflective essay or even a personal narrative. The writing that I had done in middle school and high school was by far the worst of it.