My Writing Experience

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The impact of reading and writing over the years has had a profound impact on me over the years. From elementary school to the present day, my literary skills have had their ups and downs; however, learning from failure has taught me that I can do anything through perseverance and a good work ethic. As we approach the end of our final semester, I cannot help but reflect on the many years of my education in Seaman Schools. From the nurturing years in elementary school to the awkward developing times in middle and high school, there has been one thing I have learned to appreciate: written and textual communication. As a young boy, I was fortunate enough to grow up with books all around me. My grandparents would always buy me books for Christmas, …show more content…

The transition left me behind from the get-go. In third grade, we started having written spelling tests. Differentiating “their”; “there”; and “they’re” was just one of the many examples of the difficulties I had during this time. The situation continued to get worse and eventually I found myself in the special education class for reading and writing. Ashamed, embarrassed: these were just a few words to describe what I felt when I to leave the regular classroom to test with the “special” kids. As a result of the embarrassment, and to make matters worse, I took up cheating in order to pass the new …show more content…

High School: the critical years??????. Intimidated by the new school atmosphere, but also excited for my first year of high school, I took advantage of all of the opportunities that were thrown my way. I fondly remember sitting in Mr. Helfrich’s English class. The class was easy, as I breezed right through the coursework. None of classmates could edit my papers because they were so good. Even Mr. Helfrich complimented me numerous times about how proficient I was at writing. As Sherman Alexie put it, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was

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Freshman year of high school careened past my very eyes before I had the maturity to fully comprehend the knowledge and life experience that was being imparted to my young impressionable intellect. The somewhat nebulous idea of high school loomed before me, acting as both a mirage and a reality. The atmosphere itself was cramped. Every detail about the school was small, building size, classrooms, the student population. Yet in a broader sense I was overwhelmed by the enormousness of the task that lay before me. I was more concerned with surviving the first year than with anything else.
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College Admissions Essay: How Books Influenced My Life
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My dad taught me that books could be my teachers, my mom taught me that our backyard could be my classroom, and my sister showed me that you could bring books into the swimming pool. I did not know it when I would spend hours in the pool reading a book that my parents weren’t encouraging it in vain, but my family life, for good reason, was centered on books. We were the planets orbiting around one sun that was the bookshelf. Little did I know that books would be the catalyst to academic success in my early life, and I owe it all to my family. Although a life with a book in your nose might seem boring, I was never bored. Living through the characters vicariously, I explored Narnia with Lucy, attended Hogwarts with Harry, and rode dragons with Eragon. Of course
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Literacy Narrative Essay
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As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
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My Writing Experience
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“I believe that I’m at least competent as a writer as I can usually fluidly express ideas, but those technical skills will be even further crucial once I enter college and the adult world. The sooner I can learn these skills to better my writing, the better prepared I’ll be for any writing situation I find myself in the future.” When I entered the class of Front Range Composition on January 10th, I was armed only with my expectations of what I hoped to learn and the basic writing knowledge I had gained from other classes. Writing had never been my strong suit in my academic years, but I was capable enough to work my way through and still pull off an A in the class. Not this class.
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My Writing Experience
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I am a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and I am writing in regard to the internship offered by your company, Façon Magazine. After learning about the position as an Online Writing and Blogging Intern through, I was excited by the opportunities by the opportunities it presents. Although I am currently studying the biological basis of behavior, I also have a passion for journalism. I enjoy the communications aspects that accompanies journalism and have a special interest in pop culture. I believe that, with my background, I can bring the necessary skills and a unique perspective to this position and your company.
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My Writing Experience
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I constantly find it a challenge to write about myself. To write me, I, myself- is always more difficult than it first seems. However, writing and storytelling forever seem to go hand in hand, and I know I have stories to tell and the ability to tell the stories of others. To be able to communicate those ideas, stories, and experiences in a way that can convey all the most important themes from these topics is my dream. For this very reason, learning the skills to expand my writing and create relatable content would benefit my goals.
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My Writing Experience
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Growing up, I didn’t have much. My father was a high school drop out, and my mother was away in the Navy. What I did always have however, were stories and books, and lots of them that were read to me. Almost every night my grandma or my aunt would sit down and read me a story as I feel to sleep. I became attached to the books, knowing them by the contents inside and the front covers, even memorizing a few of them by heart.
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My Writing Experience
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Fromt the time I was a child I have been moving from country to country learning different languages and adapting myself to their people. I was born in China and when I was 11 years old I moved to Mexico with my family. At that time I had to adapt and learn Spanish to communicate with their people. Years later I had to move again, this time it was Canada and now I had to learn a fourth language to communicate with the others. English writing and reading are very different from Chinese and Spanish.
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My Writing Experience
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Over the course of my academic career, I have faced my fair share of challenges. From the time I started school as a young child, education did not come as naturally to me as it did for a majority of my classmates. The most memorable of these struggles, and the one I am most grateful to have gone through, was mastering the art of reading and writing. For a vast majority of my elementary schooling, I was pulled out of my classroom environment to work with a special tutor to strengthen my ELA skills. With haste, I began to see the hours I put in materialize into successes, and every milestone I hit filled me with the joy of a job adequately done.
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My Writing Experience
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During my high school and part of my college experience, I feel as though I have received a modest amount of writing instruction. Particularly during high school, my writing instruction felt more class and goal oriented rather than personal and direct. Because of this, I uniformly feel that my grammar and understanding of writing as a subject lacks the basic fundamentals. Since my writing journey in college as began, I have learned more about sentence structure and clarity through reading more academic articles and, also, through reading edited work. What has assisted my transition from high school to college writing has been reading over and revising my own writings after it has been peer edited.
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My Writing Experience
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English has always been my most feared subject. The reason for that is because reading and writing have never been my strongest skills. They are the only vulnerable areas in my years of receiving education. My inability to read and write well has caused me so much frustration as I never feel that any of my work is good enough to hand in. I had no idea why it took me so much time to read a chapter of a book when other students were already done or why I could not even sit down and write a simple paper when others were done doing their essays in a span of a couple hours.
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My Writing Experience
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I’ve had a lot of things in my life that I’ve taken for granted; we all have. I never considered the fact that my ability to read and write would be one of those things. I’ve always considered reading and writing a basic human task that everyone in this day and time knew how to do. While I grew up in a relatively poor community, the majority of people my age had common knowledge of reading, writing, and other elementary level skills. At least, that was what I thought.
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My Writing Experience Essay
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There isn't much of a history for me, when it comes to my writing experiences. As I have grown up, I was never much of a writer, and no different than any other student when speaking in terms of my homework, or any school work for that matter. I didn't ever want to write papers, and my homework was something which I both dreaded and procrastinated until I couldn't ward it off any longer. During the Junior year of my high school experience is truly when my inner writer began to come to fruition. As the reality of the fact that I wouldn't ever get out of doing my work became ever increasingly apparent, I finally grasped the concept of what it meant to just sit down and take care of business, especially when it came to writing papers.
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Personal Narrative: My Love Of Reading
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I remember very carefully selecting my limit of fifteen story books and taking them home. My mom would read them aloud to me and then the next week I would choose more books; a special tradition that we share together. My love of reading and my relationship with books can be tied to my mom and the library. Even now, both her and I go to the library and help each other select books. I love going to the library because it seems like there is an unlimited choice of books.
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I Am An English Major
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extremely motivational third grade teacher encouraged my writing in ways that all teachers should note.
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