My Writing Experience

English has always been my most feared subject. The reason for that is because reading and writing have never been my strongest skills. They are the only vulnerable areas in my years of receiving education. My inability to read and write well has caused me so much frustration as I never feel that any of my work is good enough to hand in. I had no idea why it took me so much time to read a chapter of a book when other students were already done or why I could not even sit down and write a simple paper when others were done doing their essays in a span of a couple hours. Even when I did finish reading a novel, it was difficult for me to recall what I had just read. I always had to rely on someone to explain to me what the chapter or book was about. I had to improve in my writing because I knew that if anyone wanted to be successful, they have to know how to read and write. The struggles that I went through during my learning experiences in literature have indeed made me a better reader and writer than before. As a young student, the essays assigned were plain and simple and during these times my writing was fine. I had no trouble with getting my work done because I just wrote what came to mind. I was

My writing has come up a long way and just began to take an important role in my life. My freshman year of high I had an English teacher that I found to be kind of boring. She did not make reading or writing seem to be enjoyable. This was the first time where I actually did absolutely awful in class for a good amount of the year. For the most part I was reading books and passages on Greek mythology and it just so happened that I was not interested in any of that. This contributed to the rough year I was having during my freshman year. My lack of interest made me not want to pay attention in class anymore and this ultimately led to the way I handled English