My Writing Habits

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Some of you were either gifted with being able to easily write a paper or many of us are the writers who never know where the hell, to start. For the ones that never know where or how to start, we have always depended on teachers to lead the way. I don’t think very many students ever stop to think about how their past instructors have shaped their writing. We don't notice the ongoing cycle of how dreadful writing an essay is until a particular instructor makes you aware of all the bad habits you have assembled. Along the way of accumulating all these bad writing habits there have been teachers who have unmindfully caused this.

For most of us writers we would say that we are in a place where we struggle to enjoy the process of writing. So …show more content…

My ninth grade pre-ap English teacher would always emphasize how our introductory paragraph must grab the reader's attention and should be the best paragraph in the essay. Statements like these that various teachers still make are what cause students like me to have such a struggle and no enthusiasm when writing essays. I can surely say that one of my English teachers in particular taught me absolutely nothing about being a better writer. She spent most of the class time giving us reading assignments and attempting to teach us how to analyze an article that in no way benefited us. One of my English instructors had us write essays and ended up never even once looking over them because so many students turned assignments in late she decided the essay assignment needed to be cancelled. Now why in the world would you cancel my essay assignment I spent hours on because big forehead Susan and redhead Noah make their own deadlines? On the rare occasion she did "grade" our essays she handed mine back with no comments about the contents and red pen on all the grammar and punctuation mistakes. The idea is to create great writers not to discourage unrevealed poets and advanced writers about the art of …show more content…

I truly believe that some of my past instructors had good intentions when teaching us grammar and literary devices. There are also teachers that are tired of being underpaid and discouraged those are usually the ones who give out the unbeneficial articles and busy work. Teachers will soon realize that writing will only become enjoyable when given the freedom to express themselves knowing that grammar and punctuation won't be the only subject graded. Giving students reading assignments that they can relate to and improve them as writers is one of the best things to do. It makes such a difference when you read articles/papers that you can relate your personal habits or life experiences to because of a sudden it has attracted interest in you. Teachers have the tendency of always emphasizing statements to conform students to avoid doing certain habits they consider bad or wrong. Donald M. Murray writes, "I have begun to understand, better than I ever have before, that all writing, in many ways, is autobiographical..." Teachers and students fail to see that you don't have to use "I" in an essay to make it personal. Besides, using "I" in an essay that I'm writing is logical. If I'm writing the damn thing why am I not allowed to use "I"? Assigning busy work that has nothing to do with creating the best writers is a no go. Us as students understand the importance of grammar and

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