Writing has been a difficult task for me all through school. I will explore how problems writing developed into my appreciation of writing. Just facing my fears of writing has given me the tools I needed to write. Writing has been very difficult thing for me to do for a long time. All through school english and literature classes were a challenge to say the least. My thoughts were to avoid these classes but we all know and understand that was not possible. I identified my problem with writing a long time ago. I just didn’t like writing papers or essays. This created a bigger problem because it was required all through school. As I tried to understand why I disliked writing so much it finally hit me it was my lack of desire to write. I just
There are a number of factors that have influenced my writing today. I consider writing as one of the most tedious tasks. When given writing work, I tend to find it difficult to gather all my thoughts. The anxiety of what the outcome might be has always hindered my thinking and has thus led to my procrastination. I often feel that the rules that accompany writing is frustrating, like keeping up with the word limit, grammar and time management. However, I feel that the environment where I did most of my writing is mainly responsible for my writing toda...
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
As a frequent writer, I’ve noticed that writing is one of those factors that doesn’t come easily to me. Often, I find myself struggling to write papers or essays. Writing is something that I’ve never really put much interest or a lot of effort in; however, when it came to writing a paper as an assignment for a class, I always tried my best to write well. I’ve realized through my writing experience and knowledge that writing takes time and has to be worked on repeatedly before it is a polished paper. Writing takes a lot of thoughts and ideas along with revision and editing. One has to spend time on writing to make sure that it satisfies them or others.
In a developing mind, such as a child’s mind, reading and writing should be a fundamental part in their life. Being able to read and write is the gateway to learning other subjects such as math and science, because without the skill of being able to read and write, nothing else would make any sense. Personally, in my own experiences, I was always prefer reading and writing over math and science because when I was younger I had quite an imaginative brain and a good way to express that was through reading and writing. I believe that since I had more opportunities to read and write rather than math and science during my childhood lead me to be better at reading and writing. I have memories of reading and writing being a part of my childhood life
The first and main reason why I don’t recognize myself as a writer is because writing is difficult for me. All the time I want to write about something I have trouble to concentrate on it. By concentrat...
English is a hard language to learn, for there are numerous elements of effective usage and writing. Many people, including me, struggle in writing because of a lack of knowledge. Since middle school, English was not a strong suit of mine. I struggled with the simplest of tasks often taking a considerably longer time to complete a task than the other students. Unmotivated teachers and a lack of interest resulted in remedial writing skills. To put it simply, I had little confidence in my writing and I dreaded taking the class because of the writing involved. In spite of my fears, I took the course and I was able to perfect and challenge my mediocre writing skills.
Writing has been my most challenging requirement through school. I am not a very experienced writer. I was not required to write much in high school until my last semester. My last semester in high school, about a year and half ago, I took GENR-091 which is the last time I have written a paper longer than one page. That was my most recent writing class; I am rusty to say the least.
When I began to write, I fund the writing process a really slow, time consuming, and difficult task. First, because I wasn't writing in my first language and I was learning how to conjugate words and use a more advance vocabulary. Second, I didn't like to write, writing essays about something that was not interesting for me was really distracting and difficult to achieve. If my life were in the hands of my writing skills, I would be death long time. Even though, it was tough for me, I always tried to do my best.
Most of my writings have been those of the classroom assignment variety. The assignments consist of free writes, essays, research and term papers, but none of these come to mind as an experience worth noting. I never had a writing published or received any type of an award. I seldom did any wrtiting out of school, or writing for leisure as some might say. The bottom line is, I just don't have te time to write for leisure, with a full time job, attending night school, and raising two children, my day are consumed rapidly. If I did have the time to sit down and write, I'm not sure that I would write. I keep most of my thoughts to myself, not on paper. Although it does feel nice to express my thoughts and feelings onto the page. I can see my thoughts unfold, and I can organize them to develop new ideas.
I am still shocked to see that I can manage the few projects that I have at the moment. I've got 3 kids at home, and it's normally chaotic during the holidays (every parent out there knows what I mean).
At last I rediscovered a lost love of mine: writing. I’ve always had a powerful history with writing, my deepest rooted early school memories are of being recognized for it. Annually I was chosen as the student to write a short story for a writer’s conference. For years, I would be recognized for my record high written test scores, which brought the feeling that not only do I love writing but that writer is part of my identity. All of this contributed to my allegiance of the written word. Only my love for stories that writing produces overpowers my love for writing itself. From books to video games to movies, if it contains a well-written story, I’ve been quick to devour it from the time when I was a child. That, above anything, has driven me to pursue a degree in English and
In summary, it is hard for me to write and I do not write a lot. However, it will be easier for me to write just for fun or for my journal, when I don’t have to care about spelling, grammar, structure and content of the writing.
When I first entered into college, I didn’t know how to write. In my opinion, I’m still not where I need to be when it comes to formal and informal writing. My biggest goal is to enhance my vocabulary. Also, I sometimes focus on the creativity of my writing for too long. Perhaps this is a strength and a weakness. Today, I think I’ve grasped the overall concept of writing. I love to write. I love the way sentences sound when words are arranged in congruence with each other. I love the rhythm of poetry, and the power I have over words when conducting my own written
As I stated in my previous reflective essay, I hated writing in grade school. I sucked my teeth and groaned every time my teachers assigned an essay for homework. I don’t actually hate writing. I just disliked it because I never excelled in it. I wrote just to get the job done, but never took the time to pay attention to the writing process and the other aspects of writing. As I grew older and got a career, I realized how important writing was in the real world. From friends revising your status updates on Facebook that were plagued in grammatical errors or writing a professional email to your boss, writing skills are crucial to the real world.
I finally came to the conclusion that this is the only writing assignment that has influenced my attitude toward writing, being that I never finished school and failed most of my English classes. So I decided to write about this experience. It has made me realize that I hate writing but understand the importance of it. Hopefully as I develop my skills, I will come to enjoy it. But for now, I hope this is close to a thousand words.