Reading And Writing: My Experience In My School Experience

Throughout my school experience, reading and writing have been always a struggle for me. I did not like to read because I could not remember anything I read, and I did not like to write because what I wrote was unorganized. Reading also can help improve writing, but when I was younger, I was stubborn and not aware of that. I had no confidence and thought I was never going to achieve good grades in an English class. So I let my grades slip and with that I decided to not go to college after high school. A few years out of high school, I took courses and a course English to develop my skills as a writer. In the course, I learned a great deal and realized, finally, that it was my low confidence level that was affecting me negatively. Then, starting

Writing essays was not my forte, or so I thought. While working through the eLearning Module 5, which was titled, Visual Organizers, Outlining, and Drafting. These words meant nothing to me when I first entered the module because I thought that for some people it is not necessary to use visual organizers or outlines. I was exceptionally wrong about that. What surprised me was that the visual organizers and outlines, part of the prewriting step, taught in the eLearning module were very easy and I was able to write down many ideas to start my essay. It made the essay writing much easier, less stressful, and faster. I wrote my persuasive essay about the importance of sex education in schools and stated that schools are not teaching students enough about sex in the United States and that this country has the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in the world. With the help of my instructor, the comments on my first draft assisted me in editing, once more, to help me turn the essay into a more persuading essay. I feel I made a robust argument on the subject and tore down the counter arguments regarding the