Why Writing Is Important To Me

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Margaret Fuller once said “Today a reader,Tomorrow a leader.” How much you read and write today will somehow affect your future job, salary, or even your family. Although math, science, and history are important, the importance of reading and writing tops all because of the way it allows us to communicate with others, broaden our minds, and they way it challenges us to increase our ability to understand different readings and writings. Some things are easier to remember and some things are easier to forget. In third grade, in the middle of class, I got called on to read a paragraph. Looking lost at the paper, I began to stutter, and couldn’t pronounce any of the words. As the room filled with the sound of my classmates laughing at me, I felt …show more content…

When I got my test back, I made good on every subject except writing. Not getting to go with all my friends, because of making bad, really made me hate writing. I began to doubt my ability and the ideas I wrote about. Perhaps because of the lack of seriousness, I began to struggle even more in English. A feeling of sorrow overcame me every time I would get one of my essay grades back. This caused me to realize just how important writing is. As I fell behind more and more in english, I would have to meet with a tutor. After months of working hard on improving to write better, I started to feel like I was caught up to everyone in my grade again. This was very important to me not only did learning how to write better help my grades, but It also helped me understand the english language more. Once I realized how much writing helps me in my daily life, English felt like more than just a class I was forced to take every …show more content…

I was introduced to having to write essays on certain books or poems. My english teacher would assign our class a book to read and after we read it, we were required to write an essay on it. At first, I thought I could just skip reading the book and write a paper on it anyways. After I got my first essay grade back, I found out this technique was not good enough. I didn’t have any details or truly know anything about the characters; therefore, my essay lacked small important information that I had missed out on. This caused me to realize I really would need to take the time to start reading any required books because reading is important when it comes to writing based on comprehension. When our next book and essay assignment came, I decided to actually read the book in order to see how much better I could make on my essay. I do not usually enjoy reading but I stuck through it and read “ The Grapes of Wrath.” This time our teacher gave us a in class essay, which we had never done before. If I had not read the book, I would have failed it because it was solely off your own comprehension of the book. I felt so accomplished knowing I could fully answer the essay question. Reading and writing are equally important because in order to be successful in one of the subjects, you must be skilled in the

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