Personal Narrative: My Role As A Writer

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In my time as a reader/writer I’ve developed a broad knowledge of literacy. What made me, the reader/wrtier that I am today goes back to the second grade. In the second grade we did A.R. reading, we set goals every week and read books that were only at our reading level. Then we went to the library to type words. Throughout most of the second grade I didn’t really try with reading or writing, but it really started in the third grade when my teacher made me read and write everyday. She made me reach a goal every day, and eventually it got to a point where I was one of the best readers and a good writer. I had to summarize each story we read in class and then write my opinion on the story and what I learned from reading it. I never really started …show more content…

They changed my entire attitude towards learning. The assistant is the one who really made me a better writer, she made me put more detail into my stories, and she even made me like it more than ever had. My actual teacher helped me become a better reader, she sat me down and helped me pick out book series once she learned the type of books I liked to …show more content…

When I write stories I go write with depth and, good amounts of detail but not too much to where the reader thinks it’s too much. My weakness as a writer is being repetitive and, coming up with new parts of a story or another point of view on a subject. The only thing that confuses me as a writer is why teachers won’t let students choose what they write about. Like why not ask the students what they’d like to write about and not force them to write about subjects that don’t interest them. Doesn’t creativity allow an individual to expand more rather than writing about a subject that doesn’t stimulate their brain and, just putting enough effort into a paper for it to be

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