My Writing Journey

Writing is a unique activity for me. Although I have been learning to write since I was in my pre-school, it is no doubt that I still learn how to write until now. What makes it to become a lengthy process? I guess it is because writing is linked with our mindset and our background. The level of our understanding about it will be vary due to our experiences. Therefore, our writing skills will always be changing as our life goes on. Besides the fact that my writing skill is always developing, for me writing will also show my identity. Sometimes my writing speaks louder than myself. That’s why I relate my whole writing journey as an extraordinary activity.

Back in my home country, we also learn how to write in our early age. I remember that I started to use pencil and wrote things down when I was in pre-school. We wrote basically what the teacher had written for us, so it was pure copying things up. Sometimes the teacher would read some stories and we had to write them down on our book. We probably could only write random words when our teacher didn’t give us the examples. I think it was important for us to know how to express our mind, even though it was still unstructured. As writing is associated with our mindset, to be free and creative

It was not only that I must adapt to write in my second language. It was more about how I changed my writing style to suit the English way of writing. Sometimes I was struggling with the vocabulary, sometimes it was the grammar, or even sometimes it could be the main idea. It was most likely because I spent much of my life in my home country, and it shaped my way of writing differently. One simple difference is about the length of writing. It is common in my country, teachers tend to give higher mark to longer answer. I don’t think it works in the US and I realized that from my first semester here. I tried to adapt my style and it gave me higher score on the