The words “essay” or “writing” are the words that sound like nails on a chalkboard to my ears. The word “reading” falls into that category occasionally when I have to read a book that I’m truly not interested in. Those words are also the very reason I put English 1101 off until second semester of freshman year. The words are not my real enemy though, procrastination is. Beginning in elementary school, reading was my favorite thing to do! Whenever I visit my mother’s house, I’m constantly reminded of how well I had done in school with reading by all of trophies and certificates in the living room. I was fascinated with books from the Junie B. Jones series to the Goosebumps series. I remember being in third grade and going on the reward trips …show more content…
I’m the type of person that gets a thrill out of debating and I especially love doing so whenever I have evidence to support my claims. My favorite analysis essay was done senior year in A.P Literature and was about Hamlet. I had to analyze what Hamlet’s eccentric behavior consisted of, who it was important to his role, and how could it be judged reasonable. It was my favorite because there were so many points in the book that supported my reasons. As for the argumentative essay, my favorite was based on The Crucible. This was like the perfect one to argue your claim on because there is so much evidence that could be used to support …show more content…
I have learned that procrastination is not the best when it comes to writing and that it is probably better just to clear my head and begin writing. However, whenever I write at the last minute, I can always get my paper done faster because I know that I have no other choice but to do it. I feel as if my papers are better whenever I put it off than they are whenever I do it weeks ahead. All in all, writing and reading go hand in hand and are essential to living. It is basically impossible to do one without the other because they both depend on each other. Reading and writing is all around us in the world and it is impossible to ignore it. As a future nurse, hopefully, the two are key in career. Reading and writing could be the difference between life and death for a
Going through the alphabet day after day, practicing each letter of the alphabet, is probably what made me dislike writing so much. The summer after third grade, my parents, made me work in reading and writing books to help me improve, but I hated doing them so my skills never really improved. Ever since then, my ability to comprehend what I read has been very difficult.
I read a lot of the Junie B Jones book my mom brought home for me. I may not have been as fast as my family was, but for me I was fast enough. I had made my very first friends at the library and even though I knew they weren’t real I knew I always had characters in my books. My favorite place to this day is in any library surrounded by all my
Instead of mom reading children’s books to me, I read them to her. And if I stumbled upon something I didn’t know or understand, mom helped me out! Soon enough I started reading to her without stuttering of not knowing how to say a word. I started being able to sound out words easier and my fluency became much better than before. First grade came around and I started reading bigger books such as Junie B. Jones and also the Magic Treehouse books. Books became easier to read as I aged and the books I read were getting bigger and bigger. In 5th and 6th grade I read The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpents Shadow, a trilogy called The Kane Chronicles written by Rick Riordan. I thought these three books were the greatest three books ever written! I even thought they were better than the hunger games! Especially with the series being based around Egyptian gods and theology, and also managed to tie in kids around my age that I could relate to. Those books made me love reading more than I ever have and I would read them again if I had the time to. Once 8th grade came out along I decided to read a “big boy” book: DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I thought I was so cool because I was reading a book that my parents have read. It has been the best book I have yet to read so far because it sparked my interest from the first sentence, to the last, there was intense suspense throughout the whole book and I could nonstop
There are a number of factors that have influenced my writing today. I consider writing as one of the most tedious tasks. When given writing work, I tend to find it difficult to gather all my thoughts. The anxiety of what the outcome might be has always hindered my thinking and has thus led to my procrastination. I often feel that the rules that accompany writing is frustrating, like keeping up with the word limit, grammar and time management. However, I feel that the environment where I did most of my writing is mainly responsible for my writing toda...
My dad taught me that books could be my teachers, my mom taught me that our backyard could be my classroom, and my sister showed me that you could bring books into the swimming pool. I did not know it when I would spend hours in the pool reading a book that my parents weren’t encouraging it in vain, but my family life, for good reason, was centered on books. We were the planets orbiting around one sun that was the bookshelf. Little did I know that books would be the catalyst to academic success in my early life, and I owe it all to my family. Although a life with a book in your nose might seem boring, I was never bored. Living through the characters vicariously, I explored Narnia with Lucy, attended Hogwarts with Harry, and rode dragons with Eragon. Of course
I can remember like it was yesterday that I had a passion to read. Learning new words and reading new books excited me as a teen. It all started when I was in ninth grade. I wasn’t your typical fourteen-year old child reading children library books. I loved reading the young adult books. My favorite author was Ellen Hopkins. She wrote most of her novels about teens struggling with substance, abuse, feelings, sexuality, etc. I didn’t go through the problems like the teens in the books, but the stories made me think a whole new perspective in the teen world. I felt like the young adult books gave me meaning and the hard, cold truth about the world so that’s why I liked
As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
When I started first grade, I finally started to appreciate some of my mother’s work. At the beginning of the year, everyone had to take a reading level test, and I ranked the highest among my classmates. I flexed my reading skills before everyone. I volunteered to read during class. I read to my parents, to my grandparents, to my dog.
Second, I have never really enjoyed writing. I just tried to make the best of it when I was forced to endure it. It seems I have a tendency to focus on the tasks I enjoy doing most and turning away from the difficult ones. I feel if I take care of the "easy stuff" I can get more done. This is why I save the hardest for last. Now that I have returned to college, my hardest task has become my first chore. Can you see the irony?
The time that I recall when I first began to read was when I was two years old. My mom started teaching me a lot before I went into kindergarten and it was really useful that she was a kindergarten teacher herself. The main types of readings I do are magazines, research articles, and when I get assigned to read a novel for a class. I would describe myself as a reader that once I start reading a book, I find myself not being able to stop because I want to know what will happen next. A moment that encapsulates who I am as a reader is when I read a novel that I chose for a class to do a book report on and found myself reading it for over an hour because I was in such suspense. My favorite books are “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and “Dress Her in
A majority of adults can say that their first memory of literacy is when their parents, older siblings, or grandparents read them bedtime stories, that is not the case for me. Coming all the way from Europe at age two with two foreigner parents that did not know a word of English and only twenty dollars in their pockets the least of their worries was my literacy. We had family that had already migrated here so many of my older cousins had already known the language and started their education here in America. I was so young I was just impressed with the landscape in this new country that was now officially my home. My parents left everything they had and all of their people for me, for my education so of course when I said that my literacy was the last of their worries I over-exaggerated there a little bit. What I meant was they now had to worry about putting a roof over our heads and providing food for us, also they could not
My love for reading was extremely strong when I was younger and one of my greatest accomplishments while in elementary school was becoming part of the “1000 AR Point Club”. This meant I got a certificate at an awards assembly and I also got my name put on a plaque hanging in the hallway. If it were not for my school offering rewards for reading and my mom who actively enjoyed reading with me, I never would have achieved that accomplishment.
There have not been many obstacles that have gotten in my way for me to be a successful reader. I am able to confidently read "Hope in the Unseen" because it keeps my interest. I like the story. I feel for Cedric. I imagine and picture the story in my mind. When a large amount of reading is assigned, sometimes my brain gets exhausted and I have to take a break. Literally my brain gets tired. The reason why I have trouble getting all of my assignments in for "Writing and Being" is because the book does not hold my interest. I find it boring at times. I really like "Higher Learning" because the stories are like short stories, and they are adventurous in a weird way.
Reading has been a part of my life from the second I was born. All throughout my childhood, my parents read to me, and I loved it. I grew up going to the library and being read to constantly. Especially in the years before Kindergarten, reading was my favorite thing to do. I grew up loving fairy tales and thriving on the knowledge that I could have any book I wanted, to be read to me that night. Having no siblings, my only examples were my parents, and they read constantly. Without a family that supported my love of reading throughout my childhood, I wouldn’t appreciate it nearly as much as I have and do now.
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,