The Influence Of Writing: My Experience In Writing

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For as long as I can remember, I have never enjoyed to write. It wasn’t because I was a bad writer; I actually believe I write well. I just never felt that it was something that was exciting to me. Some people find joy in writing; however, I find myself very bored when I have to sit down and write something. I must admit despite my lack of interest in writing, I have grown as a writer most powerfully in my junior year of high school. I signed up to take a college in high school class through the University of Pittsburgh. It was a debate class so I knew there would be lots of public speaking which I wanted to improve on. I did not, however, realize there would be a substantial amount of writing as well. Furthermore, I did what I had to do and my teacher was very good at making it …show more content…

He was full of energy and stressed that we improve our writing. He was right, because I now am thankful to have the ability to write. Deborah Brandt states in her passage “Sponsors of Literacy” that “Throughout their lives, affluent people from high-caste racial groups have multiple and redundant contacts with powerful literacy sponsors as a routine part of their economic and political privileges” she continues, “Poor people and those from low-caste racial groups have less consistent, less politically secured access to literacy sponsors.” (Brandt, 49). I came from a very poor high school with limited resources. Yes, there were plenty of other schools out there with more opportunities than I had; however, I don’t believe that anyone had better or more subsequent teachers than I had, they only had

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