I Hate Writing. I’ve never been good at writing, nor have I been confident in my writing abilities. For as long as I can remember, I’ve despised writing. While some people can effortlessly write long essays, I’ve always struggled to express myself on paper. I never know where or how to begin my pieces, and I’m always behind in the writing process. By the time we were forced to peer review, I would lie and tell my teacher my essay wasn’t done because I was so insecure about my writing I couldn’t stand the idea of letting someone else read it and judge it. Deep down I knew my writing couldn’t be that horrible, but another part of me was still convinced that my writing was still what it was years ago. Horrible. I am a snob. I was never very competent or skilled …show more content…
It took me far longer than others to figure out the rules and guidelines for writing. I didn’t know where periods should be placed, or how often or appropriately I should use commas. I didn’t understand how long my sentences were supposed to be, or why I couldn’t just keep using commas, and why I had to end a sentence and start a new one. I didn’t know when it was appropriate to start new paragraphs and much more. Everything seemed so arbitrary to me, and I despised that. I didn’t realize that the rules were simple and that you were supposed to let the words flow out of you naturally. I envied my classmates’ talent for writing. They seemed to effortlessly construct entire worlds with nothing but words, and build people out of their sentences. I envy their understanding of punctuation, their descriptive writing, their long analyses, and more. Most of all, however, I envied their confidence. Despite my best efforts, writing remains a source of self-doubt and frustration. However, something has changed this year. Maybe it was the encouragement of the many different English teachers that cycled through, or maybe it was my personal
During the transition from a high school writer to a collegiate writer, my strength at understanding the basic principles of good writing has remained consistent. I grasp the ...
Throughout my years in high school I have never been the best at writing. I have struggled and failed numerous times and I just didn 't think I would ever get any better when it came down to writing in my English classes. I always had to ask my parents to help me comprehend words, phrases and also how to pronounce certain words. For example my junior year of high school it was time to prepare ourselves for the SAT and ACT testing which are standardized tests that every student must take if they want to further their education in college. When I took the test for the first time I felt like I failed miserable because my score was so low. I received a 14 my very first time taking the ACT, and my lowest score was in reading. I was so embarrassed
This trimester I began the class English 101 with mixed feelings. Depending on the topic and style, I could really enjoy writing. However, there were occasionally times where I just did not feel much inspiration, and consequently, my writing quality was not exactly remarkable. My previous course to English 101 was AP Literature, where I learned how to analyze writing and write powerful papers. Although, to my disadvantage for this class, the teacher was more concerned about content than presentation and grammar technicalities. I learned to create good ideas and responses, and while I did possess the ability to convey them with proficiency, I could not express myself at a college level. Nonetheless, I can happily report that I have acquired these skills throughout English 101, learning to curb my near addiction to prepositional phrases, in addition to halting my use of coordinating conjunctions to begin sentences. I find it pleasing to read and compare my first essay to my latest one, seeing all of the differences and enhancements. My writing has improved through the trials of in-depth analyses and short deadlines, enabling me to perform my best no matter the style or topic. Overcoming the oppositions found in the class and my own
At the beginning of the semester, I had a different idea of what is considered as good writing. In my first rough draft for my first essay, “Post-secondary education and cultural backgrounds”, I demonstrated mostly of my preconceived idea of what good writing is suppose to be. I tried to sound intelligent by asking rhetorical questions and using big words improperly. I noticed that there was no harmony and organization on my essay as a whole. I had no idea what MLA was. With the help of the Writing Center and my determination on continually revising my essay, my scattered ideas developed into cohesive statements. I learned the use of topic sentences, thesis, reference page, page number, and other given structures on writing a paper. As I tried to develop my skills to becoming a good writer, my writing and knowledge has slowly grew into the accepted academic text.
Throughout the semester i only learned few new things but i did improve and solidify my skill of writing. Before my first year of college my skills have always undermined by other high school english teachers and with that came disappointing grades. I am writing this paper as a reflection of the semester and the progress i have made as a writer. I now understand many things that my high school teachers have done a poor job demonstrating and i am grateful that i decided to take my own route in my education instead of their syllabus. I entered the semester with anxiety that i would perform as i did before but i clearly outdid my own expectations by receiving top grades on my essays.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
Throughout this semester I have learned many ways of writing through two main essays literacy narrative and comparison and contrast. These two essays have taught me how to correctly fix my comma splices, thesis statements, and capitalization. I have engaged in numerous learning material during this summer class. Many times when I thought it would be hard to work on those three developments I never gave up. I gain more positive feedback from my teacher because he pointed out most of my mistakes I made on both literacy narrative and comparison and contrast essays to help me understand what is it that I need to work on. My development as a writer became stronger.
Writing is an important part of everyone’s life, whether we use it in school, in the workplace, as a hobby or in personal communication. It is important to have this skill because it helps us as writers to express feelings and thoughts to other people in a reasonably permanent form. Formal writing forms like essays, research papers, and articles stimulates critically thinking. This helps the writer to learn how to interpret the world around him/her in a meaningful way. In college, professors motivate students to write in a formal, coherent manner, without losing their own voice in the process. Improving your writing skills is important, in every English class that’s the main teaching point; to help students improve their writing skills. Throughout my college experience I have acknowledge that
Destiny Lowe We all make mistakes, even the greatest make mistakes. For example, most people know of Thomas Edison. He was the great inventor of the light bulb. Creating the light bulb took many tries. Within the five months of work and over nine thousand experiments, he still was not able to make a working light bulb, but he never gave up.
When I was younger my best friend Alyssa always told me, I was dumb and was never going to amount to anything because I had what is called Autism and I should just accept it. Even though my best friend called me dumb I have proven that I am not dumb by being able to obtain straight A’S and B’S throughout high school, I passed 2 foreign language classes in high school with flying colors with little hope of success, I was also able to obtain a 3.0 GPA throughout high school with no hesitation. I am also proving how I could take that and turn it around into a more positive statement. It will further prove how this statement is no longer valid anymore in my life and what it has done since it is no longer valid in my life. One way that I could prove that I am not dumb but I am smart is that during High school
The definition of litter is trash that is left lying in an open or public place. Yet, why is it important not to litter? Littering pollutes the environment. As soon as a piece of trash touches the ground, it is considered litter. Since it doesn’t decompose, it doesn’t disappear until someone picks it up or it is washed into a body of water. While on land, innocent animals and children are at risk of picking up the litter, which may be life-threatening. Once litter is washed into a body of water, the marine life becomes threatened. Litter on land can easily be removed by someone picking it up; however, it isn’t removed from the water until a person cleanses the water of the antibody or it is absorbed somehow, such as by the animals.
This class has been significantly more difficult than any other English class I have taken all throughout high school. This semester, I have been introduced to different styles of writing that I have never been exposed to before. This class has been stressful, but also fun. With using all of the resources I have been given throughout the semester, I have been able to do my best to further my writing abilities and hopefully only continue to grow them as I finish my later years in college. Throughout this essay, I will discuss my failures, my successes, my overall performance in the class, and my skill development skills.
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class, I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work to see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded.
“I hate school” is something many students think when waking up in the morning, doing homework, or sitting in class. Some people think that students and their negative mindset are the cause for the failing educational system. Others think the system itself fails to properly educate each student based on their needs. In this essay I will discuss how both students and the educational system are failing each other by teaching pointless classes, teaching student how to test, and student lack of motivation In elementary school, most kids enjoy learning and going to school because of the topics and the style of teaching, but as the advance and become high school and college student they lose this interest in learning altogether.
As I look back on my schooling I can’t believe how many papers I’ve written throughout my life. Naturally as I’ve grown up, my writing has developed from learning how to write sentences all the way up to the pages of essays that consist of deeper criteria. I know for a fact that I’m a better writer now than I was before. College writing is more challenging and I’ve had to learn how to adjust to it.