As a child, writing has not been one of my strongest subjects. When I write, some sentences sounds better in my mind than they do when I read them out loud during class. I never did write much at home unless I have English homework to do. Once my mind gets into the writing zone, I gain this certain concentration that once I am so into something, I just start writing nonstop. Eventually when I have to stop to do chores, my cloud of ideas gets blown away with a gust of wind.
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I remember when I was in fourth grade, I was at my lowest point in writing. Our class had to learn cursive, start using pens, and had to have neat handwriting. I struggled in all those components. I constantly wasted my time scribbling out my illegible
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I never really liked people reading my writing, not because of the comments, but what they would think of me as a writer. I welcome all constructive criticism, but there are times I would ponder; would my numerous mistakes change people’s view of me as a writer? I been one who can write about what I am thinking on the top of my head, but I am not sure if it is relevant to the topic we are assigned. When writing something, I always have a doubt in my mind that I am not writing about the topic. Usually, I would reread the essay to see if it is about the topic. There was a time during SAT, well more precisely eight o’clock in the morning, the first section was the writing section. I barely got sleep off my eyes and now I have to write a mini essay about a boring topic. The time limit being only twenty-five minutes, I just had to write with a bit of thought infused. As I write while keeping track of time, I realized that I sort of misunderstand the passage. Knowing there a couple of minutes left to write, I had to quickly make up my mind. I just adjust the thesis sentence a little bit for the essay to be on the same path as the
Living in the Southern United States during eighteenth century was a difficult time for African-Americans. Majority of them were slaves who received manipulation, sexual abuse and brutally whips to the spin. They were treated this way in order to stop them from gaining hope, knowledge and understanding of the world. Some African Americans managed to obtain these qualities from books and use them to escape from slavery. Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist who wrote an autobiography, from which the excerpt "Learning to Read and Write" explains how he developed literacy. In the excerpt, an African American slave banned from learning to read and write, breaks the law in an attempt to free his mind from the restricted beliefs of his master. One significant idea portrayed from Douglass's ordeal is that reading and writing is a vital skill that benefits humanity.
As stated by Anaïs Nin, “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” Writing is a beautiful way to express how we feel, to make experiences memorable and to also be whoever we want to be. Writing is not easy for me. I always feel anxious before I begin to write, and this is because I’m always telling myself that “I don’t like to write.” In order to get rid of the nervousness, I start reading about whatever I have to write about so I can enrich my mind about that particular topic. Most of the times this does not work out, therefore I go to sleep and recharge my brain. As soon as I get back up I’m ready to write. My room is an ideal environment for me to write. Nobody’s there to distract me, so I put my headphones on because
... hate for writing and others think so too. Fahmy states, “She is not so confident about her writings” (2014, p.1). This statement is relevant. I have never been confident about any of the written work I have submitted so far. The thought of writing an essay frustrates me. I often don't know how to begin the essay or even end it. I feel short of words. Whenever I write something, I am doubtful about it and often strike out the entire page and start all over again. Every time I write something, I feel I'm being repetitive, which is a sign of my low self-esteem. Once I submit my work, I expect that the result will be bad. However, at times my ‘not so good’ writing actually doesn't turn out to get a bad grade. When I am given the next writing assignment, the process of not knowing what to write again repeats itself. Sometimes I even question the purpose of writing.
In the chapter, “Internal Revision,” Murray discusses the writing process and how we as teachers should teach it. He states, “And yet rewriting is one of the writing skills least researched, least examined, least understood, and—usually—least taught” (75). I believe that rewriting is a vital step of writing an essay, story, or anything that you are putting together. Growing up in school, I never had a revision time. Once it was due, we had to turn it in and then we get it back with a letter grade. With not knowing why you got the grade and how you can fix it makes you discouraged for the next assignment. It was not until high school that I started to get a little feedback from the teachers on why I got the grade that I did. We still did not
I thought I had mastered the ability of becoming an effective and efficient writer when I was in high school, but to my surprise I would later learn that there was much more for me to learn about writing. I did not always consider myself a good writer. In fact, it was something I had to work at in order to improve. As I continued my education in college, I gained more and more knowledge about writing. I learned different forms and styles of writing and a variety of details along with basic fundamentals that accommodated the specific classes had to write for. I always seemed to struggle with sentence structure and clarity. My teachers would often ask me what I was referring to in the paper or what was the main point from my statements. I hope
Scribbling helps develop writing skills. “The Scribble Hypothesis predicts that young children who are encouraged to scribble and draw, and to talk and to write, to compute and to compose about their scribbles and drawings will read more easily and will continue to read for pleasure and for information, will write more easily and will
Writing has always been something that I have felt very neutral towards. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. Once in a great while we would be assigned a paper that I would enjoy writing. I knew exactly what I wanted to say and how to say it. However, there have been many instances where i find myself staring at
Throughout my schooling years I've had a lot of teachers, and those teachers have taught me how to write, I've had teachers that have helped me fix my mistakes and helped me to get my paper done and to do a better job, but, I've also had a teacher that has knocked me down, I Just want to say that If one has enough power to suck the passion of writing out of a child, one must be very miserable in their state of life.
Most of my writings have been those of the classroom assignment variety. The assignments consist of free writes, essays, research and term papers, but none of these come to mind as an experience worth noting. I never had a writing published or received any type of an award. I seldom did any wrtiting out of school, or writing for leisure as some might say. The bottom line is, I just don't have te time to write for leisure, with a full time job, attending night school, and raising two children, my day are consumed rapidly. If I did have the time to sit down and write, I'm not sure that I would write. I keep most of my thoughts to myself, not on paper. Although it does feel nice to express my thoughts and feelings onto the page. I can see my thoughts unfold, and I can organize them to develop new ideas.
Ever started a paper late because you didn’t know what to write about or how to get your ideas on the paper? I surely can testify because any time I start a paper I have a hard time getting my thoughts into words. When I was doing interviews last week on my family and peers I seen that they had the same issue. I wiped the sweat off my forehead and thought “Thank you Jesus I’m not the only one.” Half of the individuals I talked to said they started papers late either because they didn’t know what to write about, they had a hard time brainstorming, or they just love to procrastinate. I mean let’s face it, that the main problem with any school work today. We procrastinate because we think oh yeah we have more than enough time to finish the assignment. Then the next thing you know “BOOM” it’s the due date. Is starting your paper
I keep an archive of school work from past semesters of college and even high school. So I opened it up and looked through a few essays I had senior year at my high school. It quickly became apparent to me that although my writing style was consistent and slowly got better over those years, I still made some of the same mistakes in paper after paper. I tended to just throw out the idea I had in my head at the time onto the page. Yes I did manage to transcribe my meaning from my head to the text, but more often then not you couldn 't tell because It was buried under mountains of unnecessary text and formatted
Storytelling is definitely a good pre-writing activity as it provides students with the opportunity to make connections to the story that was read and the story they have to write. Furthermore, reading a story before writing a piece of work allows for access to the pupils’ prior knowledge and contributes to its enrichment with new information. From my point of view, it is very important that the storyline spurs interest among students so that they are motivated to write about it. Ideas extracted from storytelling allow students to build up their confidence, as they know what to write about. In other words, storytelling helps pupils to think of several ideas so that they have something to talk about. It is also a good exercise for
“The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go” (Dr. Seuss).Throughout my childhood and reading Dr. Seuss books this quote was important in my development as a reader and writer. Growing up as an only child my parents wanted to make sure that I had all of the resources I needed to succeed, one being the ability to read and write. The quote by Dr. Seuss was highly regarded by those who wanted me to succeed in life. They wanted me learn to read and write so that I can know and experience more than they have. At an early age reading and writing was stressed to a high degree, but as I got older reading became a struggle and writing was something that helped relieve that struggle.
That’s a question that has plagued me more, now than ever. Sadly, there is no spectrum to determine such a thing, only I would be privy to such information, and at this point, I’m unsure. For my last semester in college I took a Creative Writing class, and it was one of the greatest academic choices of my life, but it made me question a lot as well. From writing poetry to this last non-fiction piece I wondered if I’m was cut out for the life style of a writer.
At a young age my mother told me that I would always need reading and writing. At that time I wouldn’t listen to what she said because I didn’t like to read and definitely didn’t like to write. Through school I only seemed to improve on one of these things and it never seemed to be writing. My journey through elementary school, middle school, and high school has shaped me into the writer that shows today.