Learning to read and write is something we all have experienced. Some experiences being difficult than others. As a kid, I can remember trying to read the daily newspapers, different types of magazines, books, and addresses on mail; basically, I tried reading anything that had words on it. My favorite thing to read were the back of cereal boxes. Nothing made me more excited than sitting at my white and pink Barbie table and chair set eating cereal while eyeballing the back of a cereal box. Only being able to correctly read one or two words, it was the first time I really felt accomplished. My most difficult learning experience was beginning to learn to write. Thrilled to learn to write. not knowing I was about to encounter a rude awakening. I was beyond excited to write so I could write things like what I wanted Christmas and write letters to people. Sitting Indian style on my living room …show more content…
floor is where the writing process began. I first learned my alphabets using an alphabet trace book. I remember tracing my alphabets over big blue dotted lines that formed different alphabets. Everyday my mother would make me focus on a certain letter to trace. Tracing on the dotted lines was a piece of cake, I wrote each letter with ease. Seeing that I was doing great with the tracing pad, my mother challenged me to write the letters on my own on regular sheet of paper. There's where the frustration and difficulty hit me in the face. Not seeing those dotted lines pressured me like I was taking the game winning shot at a basketball game. My face was sweating bullets. I can remember getting fussed and yelled at for not writing the letters my mother expected me to. I would get in trouble for things like not curving my letters correctly or confusing letters with one another. My worst problem was confusing my lower case d's and b's or making my lower case e's look too similar to my lower case c's. Being so frustrated, I wanted to give up on writing. Starting preschool where I continued my learning process, I begin to like writing more. Mrs. Ship, my pre-school teacher, was very nice and patient with me. When I confused letters with one another, she wouldn't get made and yell at me to fix it like my mother did. Sometimes she would spend excess time trying to help me because she could see that I was a determined student. Beginning middle school i started to worry again. In middle school, I began to learn to write in cursive, form full sentences and write multiple paragraphs. I started learning to write essays that including introductions, thesis statements, body paragraphs, and conclusions. The good thing about middle school is we mostly did free writing so I could write about anything that interested me. I must admit it got tough at times, being that I could no longer write simple sentences and turn it in into my teacher expecting an a like I did in preschool. As time passed, my writing improved and I felt confident in my writing. I was often getting awarded for my writing skills. 9th grade, the beginning of high school is when writing became my worst enemy.
In high school, writing changed dramatically. Getting praised for my good writing in middle school; now my writing was getting criticized and from my teacher's point view my writing skills weren't were they suppose to be. Hardly ever being glad to free write, I was given topics that seemed to get difficult each time I was given one. I now had to give my open on certain topics, analyze articles, provide in an argument telling why I do or don't support a certain topic. I often had difficulties writing down what I had in mind. It's like I wouldn't know how to make everything flow together. After having to write so many essays, writing became my way of coping with life problems. Writing about my problems in my free time made me a better writer, also. Throughout high school, I wrote tons of journals and short stories about things going on in my life. I still wouldn't consider myself a great writer but writing a lot in high school did impact my life in a positive way and improved my
writing. As of today, I'm not a big fan of writing. I have come along way throughout the years, but I still have difficulties finding the right words or trying to make everything flow together to make sense, especially on a certain topic. I often lose confidence in my writing skills. I hope this class help to to improve my writing and make me more confident in my work.
I believe that if students are being pushed to their full potential when it comes to writing in high school it can make a huge difference. For example, if students are expected to understand more about their writing and understand where the issues are it can help with critical thinking abilities and prepare people for real life experiences. This way they aren’t learning how to get out of understanding their writing. However, I do understand that writing is a big part of school, but maybe writing concepts should be focused on more as well. Therefore, I conclude that if students worked hard on their writing in high school it would result in them achieving lots in
I have always been very fond of reading, but never writing. At a young age both of my parent were teachers, so education was always first for them. I always read everyday and it improved my speaking skills,but I have never been a fan of writing. My parents tried to teach me to write and even hired tutors, but it was just one of those things that went in one ear and out the other. As a child i remember being forced to go to tutoring, to improve my writing skill. The biggest reason why I'm not a fan of writing is because; I feel like my thoughts are being read. Reading has helped me over time to increase my literacy rate. I recall first coming to the U.S. knowing just a little bit of English, but within a year I was fluent, even though had to take two years of ESL. Reading has always been my gate to the outside world. The
Writing is a process that is distinct, and unique to each person, and over one’s academic career there is this adoption of one’s own unique writing process. My writing process begins with me getting into a creative mindset, one in which I’m able to stimulate thought and emotion from on the given topic. I then go onto to create a graphic organizer of all the ideas that I generate and wish to use in my piece. After I have developed a list of workable ideas, I begin to write my first draft. During this step, I put all the ideas I had generated in point form into paragraph form. After I have written a rough draft of the assigned piece of writing, I gave it to either a peer, or family member to read through; so I can get an external perspective
As I look back at my experience during this class, I would consider my accomplishments were improving my writing style, which has not only helped me in this class but other classes and will also be beneficial in the future. I think when it comes to what I could have done differently, I would suggest taking better notes during each of the readings, especially the ones that I felt were hard for me to comprehend, and resulted in me reading the story over. Out of all the readings at first I enjoyed the “Troubadour” the story was easy to understand and I enjoyed the ending. After completing my final paper, I find myself not necessarily enjoying reading “Other Voices, Other Rooms” but I did enjoy researching the Queer Theory and its relation to the
There are several ways in which my writing skills has improved when responding to the literature in this semester. Although, there are also some things that I still need to improve on as well. One aspect of writing that I have struggled with is being able to form a coherent thesis statement and also being able to support it with examples from the text. In my writing I still sometimes tend to make grammatical errors as well. I excelled at being able to incorporate the underlying themes and symbols within the reading material for this course into my writing. There were many expectations I had about reading and writing when coming into this course. My primary expectation for this course was to improve both my reading and writing skills. This expectation
I’ve always had problems with my writing and I’m still having them. I can do any exercise in math but when it comes to write something my mind goes blank. With this course I can easily notice that my writing skills have improved. I took ENG 081 before this class and the teacher taught me completely different about some material we covered in this course.
I am Kazuki Nakanishi and I have two goals in this level. my first writing goal in this level is using an adjective and an adverb as much as I can in my writing paper. I learned how to write the nice essay from level 5, so I would like to focus on of constructing a sentence. I feel that I tend to use easy noun and verb in everyday conversation compared with the native speaker, and I need to add more information to explain something clearly using adjective and adverb. It is obvious that writing skill directly connects to speaking skill, so this goal can be my biggest goal in level 10.
This course has taught me many things about writing and also a lot about confidence in my own skill as a writer. I was not looking forward to this class in the beginning of this semester, but I am really glad that I took it. It has been a great learning experience to take this class.
Since the beginning of taking this course, I have certainly reflected more and compared my experiences with drugs with what we have learned in class. Oddly enough, it made me think of something in my group of friends’ back home that just recently happened and made me reflect on our behaviors that are caused by these drugs. Unfortunately, it was a sad reason that I could reflect on this story.
The first time I played chess I lost badly. I decided to learn the rules, I practiced alone, and read about techniques to improve my strategies. After lots of practice, I played against my friend’s father and won. During the summer semester, I decided to enroll in English Composition I because I needed help to communicate in a formal and scholarly setting. During my time in Mr. Branson’s English Composition course, I grasped a better understanding of grammar, sentence structure, and writer’s perspective. I believed writing an essay was just like playing chess. I needed to know the rules, develop a strategy and use techniques to accomplish my goal of connecting with my audience and readers.
I was shaking not with fear or excitement There were a million butterflies in my stomach i barely worked on it and i had to present. We had about 2 weeks to complete though i completely forgot about it i hate presenting anyways but it was my turn up. In 4th grade i started to hate writing because we had to present everything so i barely worked on it i was a straight c student. Writing is something to jot down notes or ideas out of my head. Writing was something to do when i’m bored just to do something or if i have to go to bed i’ll just write or read instead.
There are many different types of events that shape who we are as writers and how we view literacy. Reading and writing is viewed as a chore among a number of people because of bad experiences they had when they were first starting to read and write. In my experience reading and writing has always been something to rejoice, not renounce, and that is because I have had positive memories about them.
Only after my second year of high school, I was propelled into the adult world with full responsibility placed on my shoulders. It was the first time I was going to be away from my parents for a while and I had to make it through the seven weeks living in a dormitory living with the people whose names I didn’t know until the day before. To further add onto the stress, I had to take a placement test on a subject that I didn’t learn in a classroom to show that I was capable of handling the work that the new college class demanded. Furthermore, this was a very prestigious school that I went to and I had to really prepare myself for its rigorous challenges. To my surprise, I was relived to find out that I ended up passing the placement exam but
Learning to read and write is a lifelong journey of mine. These abilities take time and effort to learn how to do them. They are extremely useful tools and are pathways to unending knowledge.
In high school I didn’t consider myself that great of a writer, but I always seemed get decent grades on what I wrote. I mean I might just not be giving myself enough credit on my writing. I’m not really sure; I guess I don’t really think that I do anything that greatly. A lot of people did want my help writing their papers in high school, so I guess I couldn’t have been but such a horrible writer. In high school, the most important things to me weren’t the people, the experiences, the parties or any of that; I prided myself on my work. Now that isn’t all bad because it got me the grades to get into my dream school, but I think that I lost of what could have been a great four years of my life. I’m glad that I’ve had that experience though because now I realize you need balance. You can have fun and do you school work too, you just have to stay organized and on top of things. I’m really hoping that this will be a great five years for me, and that my writing will improve over the course of this semester.