My Writing Experience

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I learned to read and write at a pretty early age my parents and my grandparents taught me how to read and right. I was fortunate enough to have great mentors who actually took the time to sit with me and explain how important writing actually is for basically anybody. They explained to me that if I want to be successful in life and in my major I have to face the fact that I need to be a good writer and this was one of my hardest reality checks. One of my lessons learned in this experience is “Nothing gets worse when you practice it” that is what my grandmother always told me. I have not done all that much reading and writing as a fun thing to do, I have basically done those things as in for school. What frustrated me the most about reading …show more content…

I would say that my GED program that I went through acted as a huge sponsor in literacy. There was a lot of reading and writing on the practice exams and the actual test. I feel by the end of this class I will be a completely different person reading and writing. I can tell ever since I started college my writing has improved tremendously but my writing goals do not stop and just improving. By the time I am completely confident in my writing I want to be able to see run-on or sentence fragments and be able to point them out and correct them immediately. Writing for me in the past s in kindergarten. My teacher taught me how to write my name so much where I made no errors. All through elementary my teachers taught me to put together words to form sentences. I was also taught how to successfully write sentences were I did not have any run-ons or fragments in them, and made sure they were complete, and well put together sentences. When I reached the 5th grade which is Jr. High and then High school I was able to use what I had learned in previous years which at first did not seem like a lot at all to write paragraphs, term papers, and research papers for my English teachers as a

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