I often describe myself as an animal lover, very outspoken, but shy at the same time. I have never described myself as a writer the reason being I’ve never been good at expressing myself on paper. At first, when I am about began to write I think to myself this is it, this will be the greatest essay I’ve ever typed, this will be the greatest statement ever written. My mind quickly changes when I start to realize that I have nothing to put down on paper. It took me 2 years to finally take the English courses I was required to take since the beginning of my college years. It frustrates me to look at a blank word document and the blinking arrow cursor, it literally drives me insane. When I took my first developmental writing course, in order to take English 1, it bothered me seeing how fast people could type their ideas in comparison to me. Especially on timed essays, it was torment. My earliest memories about writing was 4th grade, it was the first year of me not being in a bilingual classroom environment. Ever since then I remember having difficulty in writing assignments. If I recall correctly, every 2 weeks we were to write an essay and 3 students would go to the front of the classroom and read their stories. At first my classmates would volunteer, however, towards the end of the year the teacher caught on that it …show more content…
Tormenting yourself on what to write. Looking at a blank document doesn’t make it any easier. Repeating the same thing over and over in your head about how bad you are at this, scratching your head, biting your nails because at this point you start to wonder if going to college is really worth it. And as you start to finally write random thoughts, it suddenly becomes a bit less complicated. I have discovered that as long as you start to write anything and stop being so critical about your writing, believing that something good will come out of your essay, sometimes
When writing a five paragraph essay, there are five steps one must fallow in order to attain perfection, these steps include understanding the question, brainstorming, writing a rough copy, revising, and creating a final draft. The first and most important step is understanding the topic. The topic of the essay is what the essay will be about and if this is misunderstood, the whole essay will be off course. The second step, brainstorming, will help organize thoughts and ideas so they flow amiably. There are many different ways to brainstorm, some of the most helpful are making a web of ideas, making a list of ideas, or creating a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the conviction. All these ideas will be related to the topic at hand. For example, if the essays topic is about how the earth is affected by global warming, then the brainstorming ideas might include the ozone lair being reduced or how global climate has raised. The third step when writing a five paragraph essay is creating the rough draft. The first draft must have all the features the final will, but does not have to be...
My relationship with writing has been much like roller coaster.Some experiences I had no control over. Other experiences were more influential. Ultimately it wasn’t until I started reading not because I had to read but because I wanted to, that's when my relationship reached change. I would have probably never cared about writing as I do today if it weren't for the critics in my family. When I was a child, my aunts and uncles always been in competition with who's child is better in school. I have always hated reading and writing because of the pressure to prove my family wrong was overwhelming for me. I had to prove them wrong and show them that I was capable of being "smart" which according to them was getting straight A's in all your classes.
I have never liked writing; I always thought it was a waste of time. It was a great therapy but I never found academic writing to be useful just tedious. Only ever writing when I had too made it harder for my writing skills to grow or improve in any way. I have not taken an English class since the 10th grade, even then I never gave it much effort, just doing what I had to so I could pass the class. Then I jump in to College English 1010, I feel like I do well in all other subjects but this one. English is my worst nightmare.
My college writing profession started when I was in my freshman year. I have always had a difficulty with writing at a college level, but I am willing to learn. Prior to coming to Penta, I was homeschooled since the fourth grade.
Being told to write any kind of essay is not an easy task. I have never felt confident about what I am writing about. Since I was young, I have always struggled to put all of my thoughts into an essay. However, some of writing skills have improved from being a weakness to becoming a strength of mine. Throughout this course, I have struggled with developing an idea I am trying to deliver, and I have also struggled with sentence structure and punctuation; however, I have made some progress in being able to write precise, articulate sentences and organize my thoughts through the paper, I still have to work on improving my writing skills.
My first writing weakness was deciding what to write about. I had to read the essay topic over and over again to understand what it was asking for. I would worry that I wouldn’t understand the topic correctly. While writing the essay I was scared to get out of topic and write about something else I wasn’t supposed to write about. Another thing that would happen to me was that suddenly my mind would go blank and wouldn’t be able to think about what else I could write about. The essay I liked writing the most this semester was the second essay. I enjoyed making my own planet and how my alien had a quest with all the commercials I saw on the TV. The hardest essay I wrote this semester was the fourth and last essay. I got confused when I was writing the body paragraphs. This writing weakness impacted my life by showing me that I have trouble thinking about how I could write my essays. I think I should start reading books and maybe I could get a few ideas out of those books.
A bunch of students can agree that the worst task to accomplish is to write an essay. Most people even star struggle just by making the brainstorm. Coming up with ideas at what to write, how can I make this idea longer to fill three pages is a battle. As Eli Richards, the author of “The Boy Who Hated to Write” ; what she wrote in this quote can explain the conflict of writing, “I shake myself to stop daydreaming…Writing is definitely the worst task of all. It was just way too hard to remember all the things I need, like periods and capital letters.
As a lover of writing and literature, a developed sense of writing is a lifelong goal of mine. I enjoy improving my writing style and creating a better story to portray. The only proven way to achieve that goal of improvement is analyzing my past writings and searching for spots of improvement and areas of development. The evolution of my writing this year in the language development, sentence structure, depth of analysis,and progression of ideas used in my writings is evident in the comparison of my earlier writings to what I am writing right now. The variations in my language and sentence structures in my previous works are subpar compared to those of my most recent creations.
Throughout the whole semester, the variety of processes helped me better my writing. When I first began writing each of my essays, I would do research that related to the topic I had chosen. I would read through the article I had chosen to see if it had enough evidence to support my topic. Once I was done with all my research it became less complicated for me to begin my essay. Even though I had my ideas on how to write the essay,
Do students ever take the time to think about their writing process? Well there are several steps to writing a successful essay. Students who follow these steps are most likely to get a better grade on their essay. Some of the steps that I use are choose a topic, gathering my ideas, write the draft, and revise.
Throughout high school, english was whatever to me. I never really cared about it other than just getting a paper done and turning it in. I would coast through the class, not putting my full potential into my paper. When I would ask my english teacher to revise my essays, I always received the same feedback “looks good”. I would think to myself like wow I put little amount of effort and my essay still comes out good. That itself made me think that english was pretty easy. Entering english 905, I had no idea what I was getting into. As the semester went on, Professor davis gave me new knowledge that none of my teachers in high school really specified on. Thinking about the way he teaches really makes me think about how my high school teachers
When I sit and think of how is it possible to create an essay so perfect that even the professor that is reading it could applaud, and the only answer is practice. When I first stepped into an English course in college, that’s when writing became so difficult that I began to not want any parts of it. It was more than just writing an essay and making sure you used the correct punctuations, it was using different guidelines and rubrics and it all just didn’t make of me at first. I would sit for hours and think of how to start an essay and for it to make sense and not words jumbled together. I began to gain a total fear of going to English class in college due to the lack of my writing skills. I would
Writers have to be clear, when explaining what they do for a living to other people. Who think being a writer means waking up around noon, sitting at home and looking at a computer screen and typing away. Like being a writer is easy. As a novice writer, I would stay up past midnight thinking how I could explain countless scene without confusing the reader or myself, reading the short story. Explaining what a writer does is simple well for me. I write in the most comfortable place and try to plan the perfect plot line. Even if it takes hours and hours or until I scream out in frustrated.
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 don’t consider myself a very good writer. I write when I am made to or when I have something that I need to say that I can’t just tell someone. I keep a diary. Usually my diary is just a record of what I have done that day. It’s not so much about my feelings. I don’t really like talking about my feelings, usually because most of the time I am confused about what exactly I am feeling. I tend to keep the feelings that I do have to myself, to protect myself from getting hurt.