I only wrote when I had to, and even then it was never very good. This semester I discovered the reasoning behind my ‘poor’ writing skills. I wasn’t writing about anything I was interested in. All throughout high school, every writing assignment I had was pick by my teachers and I really had no say in the topic or format or style of the writing. That changed this semester. I had the opportunity to choose and research something I found interesting to me and write about what stood out to me. I wrote this semester’s research paper about birth control, which is a topic I am interested in. In years past, when it came to research, I never really had the chance to express my interests. Although we did have a general essay about empathy this semester, it was still assigned to us in a way that I could easily make it into a topic that related to me and could be written in a way that wasn’t too controlled. Now that I know my writing needs to be personally interesting to me, I know what to write about in the
I only wrote when I had to, and even then it was never very good. This semester I discovered the reasoning behind my ‘poor’ writing skills. I wasn’t writing about anything I was interested in. All throughout high school, every writing assignment I had was pick by my teachers and I really had no say in the topic or format or style of the writing. That changed this semester. I had the opportunity to choose and research something I found interesting to me and write about what stood out to me. I wrote this semester’s research paper about birth control, which is a topic I am interested in. In years past, when it came to research, I never really had the chance to express my interests. Although we did have a general essay about empathy this semester, it was still assigned to us in a way that I could easily make it into a topic that related to me and could be written in a way that wasn’t too controlled. Now that I know my writing needs to be personally interesting to me, I know what to write about in the