The Boy Who Hated To Write Analysis

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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. And then it's almost impossible to think about how to spell words when I'm busy trying to think about the story. It's so hard to remember what I'm writing about.” Therefore, a lot of people do not like writing because all of this problem. I think that the writers of this text were trying to show how the English classes work, and how it would be better if they work in a unique way. The need of writing this article is to open the eyes of the students and the instructors by showing what the students think about …show more content…

Since I took the EOC’ in high school the only exam that I would pass it on the second try was the writing one, so that is why I’m scared of writing. When I enter TSC and took Composition 1 with Dr. Lucio in all my essay I would get an F. I will get so frustrated just like Jack trying to give up, but a lot of my classmates where just like me. Maybe when we enter the class we all came with the mentality that we all hate writing. For some classmates writing was essay they said that you just must tell a story and write it, but for most of us it took time to think about what to write and when we write we had a bunch of incorrect grammar. I think it would have been easier if maybe we have more time or more rough draft to then finish with the perfect

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