When I was younger I absolutely hated reading and writing. I was a perfectionist and if I couldn’t do it perfectly the first time then I wouldn’t do it at all. Thankfully my teacher at the time managed to get me to sit down and practice sounding out the words on the page in front of me. My teacher enlisted the help of my mother and they made sure I read a full chapter every day. At first it was torture, but I slowly started to look forward to sitting down to read a book. I went from 1 chapter a day, to two, to five, and eventually to finishing a novel in a day. My writing skills excelled as well. Reading and writing are now my favorite ways to spend my time. I research a different writing style, technique, or prompt and write down page after page. I’ve improved so much but there is still a lot of room for me to grow as a writer. Back at home I have piles of books, my bookcases and shelves are overflowing with different literary works. I am a very avid reader. My nose is …show more content…
R. R. Tolkien. It would take enormous amounts of time, practice, and effort to be considered a long shot at a Pulitzer Prize. I do take pride in my work. The stories I write are very intimate to me. When I write I interweave the main topics with my personal experiences, emotions, and opinions. I try to write in a way that feels relatable to the readers, I want them to relate to my narratives like I do to my favorite books. This can be one of my biggest strengths and one of biggest flaws. One of my other flaws as a writer is that I tend to be redundant and overly detailed. The stories I weave draw readers in with a strong hook and I keep them ensnared into the plot until the end by showing them fresh ideas. When I start to write something, I write the first thing that comes to me. It’s never the best and almost never makes the final cut but it helps to start opening the creative dam. I don’t stop writing until I’m done, no matter how long it
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
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 mentioned countless times above, during my time in this class, I would love to obtain the writing skill of writing papers that are more condensed and attentive to the matter I am addressing at that point in time. Professionals and even non-professionals will not want to waste their time reading something that could have been addressed in a fewer sentences and words. If I want to stand out in a crowd of equally educated occupational therapists, I need to make sure my writing is formatted and addressed in a professional manner. As a result, I am looking forward to learning how to make myself look as professional as I can in writing. Nevertheless, with learning to write proper papers and documents comes the challenge of making sure enough time is included within my study of this particular course.
I first learned to write in school, as I remember it. My earliest memory pertains to Mrs. Holkman’s lesson that taught writing the actual letters, both in printed and in cursive. Since then my writing has increased both in quantity and quality. Outside of school I did not write much, or at all for that matter, because there was no real intrinsic motivational drive for me to, and no extrinsic reasons either. In school I began writing in gradually excelling increments, as everyone else probably did. Slowly my words became sentences, my sentences became paragraphs, my paragraphs became stories, my stories became pages, now my ideas are allowed to fully flow from my mind to the page in an appealing manner.
It is an essential aspect of understanding and progression in the world we live in. The many facets of writing still, to this day, fascinate me and increase the hunger for more knowledge and skill in the art of creative expression. The simple fact that my interest and love for writing has maintained a steady increase throughout the duration of my conscious life speaks volumes about the relationship I have with it. Reading and writing have allowed me to express, understand, evolve, and mature in ways that have only benefited me.
Writing has been a difficult task for me all through school. I will explore how problems writing developed into my appreciation of writing. Just facing my fears of writing has given me the tools I needed to write.
Writing is one of those subjects that peeks my interests most. I always liked writing classes because it is one of those field of study which is very important for the future career and job opportunities. I wasn’t that good in this subject, but I still liked it, thinking that I will do well as there is always room for learning and improving. In India, I attended many English writing classes and it was a positive experience for me. I started learning English at a very early age, when I was in nursery.
Writing for me has always been a love and hate relationship since I could remember. Depending on the subject matter that I was writing about I would enjoy it because it suited my style or I loathed it because that specific style was uninteresting and boring to me. Learning certain writing formats were absolutely the worst part about writing when I first started learning in high school. As time pushed on and I grew older I began to develop an appreciation for writing that I did not have before; which is what led me to taking Writing 101 as my first full-fledged college course. I began this course with minimal writing experience because of what I failed to retain before, but now I am a stronger writer than I could have imagined with new skill sets that enhance my professional portfolio.
Since the beginning of time, well my time on earth, I cannot remember a time when I did not love to read or write. It has always been a favorite pastime of mine. I am a huge fan of fiction, and have always had a very overactive imagination. My overactive mind had led to an abundance of stories as a young child. I constantly had my nose stuck in a book, or my pencil to paper, writing away at some story I thought was the next New York Times bestseller.
Given this opportunity I gained some learning skills on how to write well put together pieces. I leaned that I am actually a lot better at writing poetry than I thought I was. I find it a lot easier to write about the ways I feel or things that I can connect to myself. In a lot of my poems I wrote about what I feel or think towards society in many different aspects. I noticed that I also got better at writing fictional stories.
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.
For the majority of my life I hated reading and writing. The hatred for reading and writing all started when I was in elementary school. In first grade, when we were learning how to read more complatied and complex books, we would be paired up with a partner in our class. The way it worked it was that you picked a number from a jar and whoever also had the same number would be your partner.
Reading was never something I fussed about growing up. As a child, I loved genres of realistic fiction. I was hooked on The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, Goosebumps, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Judy Moody, and especially, Zoobooks and Highlights magazines. My mother was always ready to help build my reading and writing skills. She took me to the library constantly to feed my passion for books and knowledge. I loved exploring the shelfs, organizing the books, and filling up my library cart. I tried keeping a diary in elementary school to keep track of my outings with my parents and grandparents to museums, zoos, movies, and libraries. This flash of writing enthusiasm was spun from books I read in the 4th and 5th grade that were
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.