My Writing Experience

I believe students who want to be good writers, must first become good readers. Before starting this course I was a fairly new reader. Obviously, my whole life I was able to read English, but just recently I had begun reading for fun. It was hard to believe that I could learn through reading because of my lack of ability to pay attention or comprehend texts; fortunately this wasn’t the case once I found books that interested me. The books I read were mostly Christian related books and I was surprisingly able to learn a lot from them. I began slow and consistently grew in the amount I would read per day. From reading one chapter a day to finishing an entire book in a weekend, my love for reading steadily increased. I would encourage any student to attempt to find a genre of books that interests them before starting this class.

With a little experience under their belt, students can expect to be able to recognize, obtain, and use things they learned while reading from the course book. While learning more about writing I developed a great respect for different authors. I have, not intentionally, been reading a lot of books that are very old; two of my favorite books were published in 1898 and 1948. To see how far writing has come since then is remarkable. Not only the speed that the author encourages but especially the verbiage that was used. Many times while reading I had to look up words or quotes, which I was able to use in writing assignments for this class. With this in mind, there are different ways of writing that students may not be able to use while in this course. Some authors use uncomplete sentences for emotional, dramatic, and speed controlling effects. Though this style of writing is effective, it is not something that I have seen encouraged in a college