For as far back as I can remember in my schooling history, writing has always been the foundation for all aspects of my learning. From being taught to write my name, to taking spelling tests, keeping journal entries and submitting scholarship essays, writing was the concrete foundation on which I built many of my accomplishments. I've always enjoyed writing and I've never viewed it as a dreaded or monotonous task, but rather as something I seem to come by naturally. Teachers have previously told me I was a standout writer and being a teacher's kid my mother wouldn't have it any other way. As a kid I remember my mom grading her own students writing in the living room while I did my own school work and she would ask me, "Now what is wrong with …show more content…
Through completing this particular course I hope to improve my own professional writing style in order to better my pharmacy school application as well as my professional resume.
When it comes to a writing process I don't really have a preference, I would say my one quirk is that I must write everything with a pen because I tend to break pencils, like to scribble ideas down rather than typing. I enjoy others proofreading my writing and I still to this day will call my mom and allow her to hear my work for input (mainly because I know she won't sugarcoat the truth if it sucks).
Although I do enjoy reading I was never the kid in school with their nose in a Harry Potter or Twilight Novel, and now in college as an athlete, I find less and less free time to read. However, I will say since I have been in college and I'm approaching pharmacy school I have been avidly reading books authored by health care professionals. I will say the best book I have read to this date I read over the Christmas holidays, it is titled "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Will Revolutionize Healthcare" written by Marty Makary. This book exposes the healthcare industry for all of the mishaps that we as patients don't know because hospitals aren't required to report it and it will make
Writing is a way in which a person can express their thoughts and ideas through the use of words. Everybody has their own writing styles. Some may consider theirs as inspirational while others think of it to be bad. Writing requires a lot of patience and time. In my case, writing has never been my favorite thing to do. I am no Shakespeare and I never will be, writing has always made me feel uncomfortable. In the past, I had always considered writing to be one of the most difficult tasks. I often wrote about topics that were not of my interest. I rarely did any writing out of school or for leisure as most people do. I only wrote because the teacher asked us to. Writing has always been forced onto me. Even though my writing isn't that great, I've felt that I've never been given the freedom to express my voice. Academic writing has always made me anxious. And, anxiety had resulted in my procrastination. Even though I consider writing to be one of the toughest tasks, I've felt that giving myself enough time to think allows me to do better. Silence helps me think beyond horizons. However, the fear of impressing someone, the anxiety and frustration is what makes me a developing writer.
Writing is an art form that some people are blessed with being naturally talented at, and some individuals must learn and be instructed in order to become a talented writer. In our modern day American society, there is a strong need to have talented writers, so there is a large push to teach writing from grade school all the way up through college. I am an individual who was never naturally good at writing, but I was taught how to be a good writing. From my education I think I have made great strides in my ability and can pick out some qualities that distinguish good writing from bad writing. Overall, good writing takes many forms.
I am sitting in my bed, thinking about my process of writing as I am trying to go through it. It seems the more I think about it, the less I understand it. When I am writing, I don’t think. Which I know, sounds bad. But, I spend every single moment of every single day over thinking, over analyzing, and over assuming every aspect of my life. When I’m writing, I’m free from that for just a little bit. Until of course, my hands stop typing or the pencil (no pens- never pens) stops moving, then I’m right back on the carousel that is my brain. Heidi Estrem says, “...writers use writing to generate knowledge that they didn’t have before.” (Writing is a Knowledge-Making Activity 18). I believe my ability to write without an exact destination
growing up I 've never been a very proficient writer . but my mom never accepted mediocre work especially when she saw greatness in all of my brothers. Being a little kid I always thought my mom had a negative impact on my writing process, but now that I 'm older I still see she was actually left a very positive impact on my writing process. No matter what my mother always made sure I always had three drafts. The first draft will be of course the draft where you get basically all of your ideas on paper to get a general idea of what you 're about to write about. The second draft was where the editing and deletion of all the unnecessary content in your paper. The second draft also eliminated grammatical and spelling errors in the paper. The
Is college writing painful and hard to come up with good ideas? English writing is different than other languages, we must follow a series of rules to complete an assignment. First, we need to understand the basics in grammar in order to use them properly in our writing assignments. If we excel in grammar, our essay will be much more lucid and logical to read than it was originally. Writing is a skill that must be mastered through practice; thus, one cannot be proficient at it if he or she does not have enough practice. Despite how hard it is for me to formulate ideas for my essay, every time I sit and concentrate on writing, a multitude of ideas begin to flood my brain. I do not have a tremendous amount of experience in writing because in my country we do not write as much as students do in the United States due to a heavier emphasis on mathematical courses verses English literature. However, what I have come to learn is that writing plays an important role in achieving success in the academic life of a college student.
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect; writing is not exempt from this maxim. Writing frequently allows students to get a better grasp of the language in their writing, such as proper diction, punctuation, sentence variety, and organization of the artifact. I also believe that young writers should be writing as much as possible so that they have the time to discover their voice and how to incorporate that into their writing. On the flip side, frequent writing could also help young writers discern when they should leave their personal voice out of a piece of writing or when it would be inappropriate to include it. However, I believe that proponents of frequent writing in the classroom should pay attention to this caveat: frequent writing should be coupled with reasonable instruction. In other words, I do not think allowing students to write in whatever form they wish would be beneficial. I think writing should also be paired with a concept that I want them to be working on getting better at, which ultimately relates to my end goals of instruction of visible, positive growth in their writing. The meta-analysis completed by George Hillocks found research that supported that free-writing should not be the focus of writing instruction. This is not to say that free-writing is not beneficial to students, but
Writing has been very difficult thing for me to do for a long time. All through school english and literature classes were a challenge to say the least. My thoughts were to avoid these classes but we all know and understand that was not possible. I identified my problem with writing a long time ago. I just didn’t like writing papers or essays. This created a bigger problem because it was required all through school.
Writing does not require you to make major changes in your life because you can work whenever and wherever you want to want unless you have a job with deadlines involved. If deadlines are involved you have to make sure you deliver it on time. A writer has the ability to write whenever they please and when they have time to. If you want to be a writer but you are extremely busy you can fit writing into your schedule and you have the liberty of writing anywhere you want. The only real thing you have to worry about is finding an inspiration because it is up to you to find what inspires and motivates you to work.
Writing has always been a means of expression but also a skill to bring to the professional world. I have found my own writing skills improve naturally as I matured as an individual, however the leaps I made came from active experiences that directly tested my ability to write. This was mainly from academic sources where I had to mold my mind differently depending on the writing. I found this difficult as I was more focused on forming empirical analysis and I was unable to stay on topic. Although I had my difficulties, I am also thankful for exposing my weaknesses. By experience, I have improved in writing a lot from continuously reading and writing different forms of essays, all while improving my writing organization.
I am not, by any means, a Shakespeare, Stephen King, or John Grisham. It would take enormous amounts of time, practice, and effort to be considered a long shot at a Pulitzer Prize. Yet, I intend to progress my writing by setting more achievable goals, building on new ideas, and developing new skills. Also, I will use the advice of instructors and peers, and draw from previous writing experiences to mold this and future writing experiences.
I am still shocked to see that I can manage the few projects that I have at the moment. I've got 3 kids at home, and it's normally chaotic during the holidays (every parent out there knows what I mean).
To begin with, I think that writing has always been one of my strengths. I enjoy it and I think that anyone who writes, becomes more logical and organized as a person. The course was challenging at times, especially at the beginning. At first, I didn’t understand how to organize my paper by creating an outline, or how to reference and use specific layouts and styles. But, then I found that the factors that made me improve were the class
For as long as I can remember I have always resented writing. Even now as I write this I sit back and count the words making sure my writing piece is between 500-600 words. However, my earliest memory of my disdain towards writing comes from my elementary years. As part of Hawaii’s learning standards, we as elementary students would be forced to sit in front of a computer for 3 hours a week and made to write out shorts essays and responses to prompts we knew little to nothing about. I dreaded these writing sessions and many times teachers would scold me for not being able to write about what was in front of me. So, from the third grade I have never looked at writing as something I enjoyed, instead I always viewed it as a requirement needed
Two of my major interests have always been reading and writing. I consider my experience with both to be great thus far.
I will introduce my writing experiences in two different views: the study processes of standard exams, such as TOEFL and SAT, and my native writing career.