My Personal Experience: My Experience With Learning Writing

In my past experience with learning writing, I can group the ways I have been taught into three categories. I have learned by teaching myself how to write, have learned in an academic setting, and have learned through hands-on experience in a professional setting.

The first time that I attempted to write, as I know understand it, was for the purpose of writing a book. At the time, I was only ten years old, so it wound up being a series of short stories consisting of no more than a few pages each. I mostly taught myself how to write in this way. Before writing, I would read part of a book written for kids my age, and try to emulate the author’s voice. What kept me writing in this way was the feedback I received from others. I showed them to my friends and family, and they would tell me how much they liked certain parts of the story. After receiving that feedback, I would then look back at the parts they mentioned, and try to write like I had in the “good” passages.

During this time, I also took it upon myself to put some of my writing online, on a site for literature written by teenagers. On this site, I connected with other writers of my age, and consistently read their work while receiving feedback on mine. While doing this, I taught myself to improve my writing in a

Each class I have taken has had its own approach, which I feel has had a great benefit for my writing. Each class has read a variety of works, and asked of me to look at them through sometimes very different lenses. Similar to my experience in writing for a scientific audience, the different methods of literary analysis I feel have given me a better understanding of how readers from a variety of different backgrounds will read my writing. This makes me think about those different lenses while I am writing, allowing me to communicate my ideas effectively to a range of people, with a diverse way of thinking about the