Essays. If I had the choice to never write another essay in my life I would take that chance. Although, some people find composing essays to be generally easy , I find myself struggling with them. I struggle because I cannot find the correct words or phrases; this problem makes my writing difficult and complicated. Everybody has weaknesses and this so happens to be mine.
To start off all through middle school and even high school I was never that outstanding writer who got 3’s & 4’s on their state test or even got high grades on writing assignments. My mom would always read over my papers when I would finish them and her exact words would be “Jesus child you need help”, my mom made me feel even better about composing essays if you can feel
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I struggle. I sit down to write and I instantly feel my brain just go blank , I get the feeling of being back in preschool not knowing anything. Some people get blessed with a mind that can produce figurative language and bright , bold words with ease. Not in my case , it can take me 4 hours to write an hour paper just because I can’t think of the words to put together that makes the paper sound “beautiful” or “educated.” Have you ever got the feeling that you 're using your brain and thinking but nothing is coming out of it , no thoughts, ideas, words , no nothing? That is the feeling I get when I’m sitting trying to figure out the words to throw together for an essay. Alongside with thinking for hours upon hours on what to write and how to put it all together , you get side effects or what I like to call essay writing …show more content…
They have never been my strong suit and probably never will be. Everything that I explained that happens to me during writing an essay are all my first-hand experience. A time when it got really horrific and terrifying to even read my essay was when I had to write to the colleges I was applying to. I would go brain dead and nothing would come out of me sitting in front of my computer for hours. I would start to feel anxious and nervous that I wouldn’t get into any college just because of how bad and ridiculous my essays were. After some time just sitting there and just rambling , I would finally have at least a page or page in a half to send off until I had my english teacher or mom look over it. I seemed to always get the same expression or chuckle from them. They would give me the look of “you’ve got to be kidding me.” It wasn’t like I did it on purpose, I had to constantly explain to them writing essays was not for me. The bad thing was this was how it always was for me when I wrote essays or paragraphs or even letters. I struggled so bad with word comprehension and fragments and all the grammatical terms for bad essays. I don’t think I ever got a “wow this is a great paper Jordan” , from anybody , there was always some sort of mistake throughout my paper. Now don’t get me wrong I could have some really
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
Throughout my years in high school I have never been the best at writing. I have struggled and failed numerous times and I just didn 't think I would ever get any better when it came down to writing in my English classes. I always had to ask my parents to help me comprehend words, phrases and also how to pronounce certain words. For example my junior year of high school it was time to prepare ourselves for the SAT and ACT testing which are standardized tests that every student must take if they want to further their education in college. When I took the test for the first time I felt like I failed miserable because my score was so low. I received a 14 my very first time taking the ACT, and my lowest score was in reading. I was so embarrassed
When I was required to write my first essay, I was so nervous due to the lack of confidence I had in
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Have you ever wondered how some athletes have gotten so good at a certain sport? Have you ever thought about what they did in order for them to get this good? For some the answer is simple; workout and train. But for others the answer is different; the use of performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. There are some people that argue that steroids should be legalized and allowed in professional sports. Other people argue that steroids should not be allowed. Today I am going to state my opinion and justify my reason. Steroids should not be allowed in professional sports because it can be very dangerous to the athlete’s health, it is a way to gain and un-fair advantage and it can be dangerous in both social and physical aspects.
I am adventurous. No I don't sky dive, wrestle crocodiles, or swim with sharks, but when asked by a group of friends to go cliff diving last summer, my best response was, “Sounds like fun!” I had never been afraid of heights yet have never experienced the thrill of cliff diving. All I could ask myself was, “What could go wrong?”
Composing has always been one of my weakest strengths, because I find it to be a challenging process to put my thoughts into writing. I struggle with expressing my ideas in a way that make it difficult for others to understand the big picture inside my head. During my writing process, I usually find myself spending a couple of hours on a paragraph, just to have it be erase and rephrased in a different way, repeatedly. This is all because I feel like it doesn’t make sense and people wouldn’t be able to understand the concept of my writing. Despite struggling to put my thoughts into writing, this is a skill that I am determine to improve and to become a better writer over time.
Throughout my whole educational career I have always struggled in writing. In 2nd grade I had to stay at after school for writing tutorials to improve on spelling, in 4th grade I never went to recess because I was unable to finish my writing prompts in during the dedicated timeline, and throughout high school I would have panic attacks when trying to write essay. Finally, during my junior year of high school I discovered I have dyslexia. Since then I’ve found different strategies when it comes to writing my essays to reduce the anxiety it gives me. During the course of this semester in your class I discovered what my main strengths and weaknesses are in all my essays. The strengths I have in all my essays are my theses and main points,
I should receive a passing grade in this class because I can write now. Not just an exaggeration, but after another semester of English I finally feel confident that can write. Three of the reasons behind my confidence is I learned, I experienced and best of all I repeated. These three values helped prepare me for what is in store in English 1302 and here is why.
To explain, many stressors and activities including extracurriculars or a struggling home life preoccupy writers, especially around the age of high school students. When students are already stressing over these aspects of their life, they become extremely drained of energy and have no fuel to write a supposedly daunting paper. The task at hand suddenly becomes more significant than needed and the student loses the spark to begin the essay with. In like manner, when creativity is absent either in the guidelines or the student, writing a paper is as enticing as visiting the dentist. Creativity is a main source of the want to write for students. The loss of freedom in writing makes a student feel as if an unsettling and intimidating duty shackles them. Moreover, teachers require students to create essays on certain ideas and topics. If the writer does not connect to the topic assigned, the will to write diminishes. Without a relationship between the topic and writer, an essay is uncompleted. When the desire to write is nonexistent, students tend to not complete an
... I write I cannot think of anything that pertains to the topic. Therefore, I will listen to music or look around the room to see if anything connects to my topic. A lot of the time, I will close my eyes and just let my mind write. I found this to help me write what I am thinking. Sometimes it is hard to take what you think in your mind and translate it into a sentence that would make sense to the reader. Sometimes not even looking gives me more inspiration and makes it easier for words to flow than looking at my writing. I think there are some things I need to improve on like my inner critic and having less writer’s block. I do make mistakes while writing, but I am only human. That is how I learn to correct my writing skills. Without making so many mistakes in past papers, I probably would not be where I am right now, which is on the road to being a better writer.
My first writing weakness was deciding what to write about. I had to read the essay topic over and over again to understand what it was asking for. I would worry that I wouldn’t understand the topic correctly. While writing the essay I was scared to get out of topic and write about something else I wasn’t supposed to write about. Another thing that would happen to me was that suddenly my mind would go blank and wouldn’t be able to think about what else I could write about. The essay I liked writing the most this semester was the second essay. I enjoyed making my own planet and how my alien had a quest with all the commercials I saw on the TV. The hardest essay I wrote this semester was the fourth and last essay. I got confused when I was writing the body paragraphs. This writing weakness impacted my life by showing me that I have trouble thinking about how I could write my essays. I think I should start reading books and maybe I could get a few ideas out of those books.
Tormenting yourself on what to write. Looking at a blank document doesn’t make it any easier. Repeating the same thing over and over in your head about how bad you are at this, scratching your head, biting your nails because at this point you start to wonder if going to college is really worth it. And as you start to finally write random thoughts, it suddenly becomes a bit less complicated. I have discovered that as long as you start to write anything and stop being so critical about your writing, believing that something good will come out of your essay, sometimes
Each of these types of writings are unique and challenging. I definitely had to step out of my comfort zone and explore new ideas so that I could improve my writing ability. For example, I used peer review to help steer me in the right direction on a few of my essays. It was nice to have fellow peers commenting and criticizing my paper. I felt getting others perspectives helped me get a broader aspect on different thoughts and ideas, so that my paper would appeal to readers of all kinds.
Many don’t realize that the road to success isn’t so much a road as it is a winding,