I have always had struggles and difficulties when it comes to writing. This is due to the fact that English is not my first language, and that I am still learning. I started to learn how to speak, and listen, and mainly write in English when I was in ninth grade. Writing has been the hardest to deal with it, because I have many spelling and mechanical errors and most importantly, how to organize an essay, but this changed when I took English 49 with Professor Lucero. In my first day of class, I was assigned to write an essay about my experience with writing. I was not completely sure on how to start my essay and how to organize it. When I was in High School, I did not write many essays, and the few I did, I have endless help. So, I just my…
I am writing this quick letter to introduce myself and tell you a bit about my accomplishments and aspirations as a writer. I won't say that writing is in my blood or my genes or anything like that, but I will say that I do have an insatiable urge to write. I cannot say, but I definitely feel that writing is a passion of mine that I greatly enjoy. It is an urge that can only be satisfied and, even then, only temporarily, by stringing words together into a narrative. Ultimately, I greatly enjoy writing, although I do not consider myself to be stellar at it; I would call it a passion more than anything else.…
I remember, when I was younger, that I wasn't fond with the idea of writing. I remember after writing out paragraphs upon paragraphs my hands always hurting and my brain exhausted from all the mental thinking and processing of writing. However, I would have this feeling; this sensation when I would write with thought, with passion and I carved it. However, it was hard to find a place that was felt the same kind of passion that I felt for writing and could help hone my writing. Then, I found out about BISFA that could help me with my writing, but my English teacher, who was supportive in my decision, told me a question all writers should always themselves, Why do you write? I figured that I would have an answer, but it I didn't. However, it…
My writing history is all over the place. I took Honors English my eleventh grade year, and loved it but took AP English my senior year and hated it. Mr. Palmer, who taught honors, was my favorite English teacher. He let us write about whatever came to mind on Fridays, whether we were ranting about classes or just had a fun story to tell. My favorite part about him is that he actually taught me how to write. My AP teacher did not improve our writing but only critiqued it. In my opinion, you can always learn how to write better. Even with being in AP I wish she fixed my writing more than just giving me a grade. More than half our students failed the English exam and the national average was a 2 on a scale of 5. So, within the past year writing…
This course has helped me feel accomplished, I feel confident in my reading and writing skills. I now understand better what it means to write a more profound paper by using the different skills and techniques I learned in this class. Overall, this class taught me that with hard work and practice you can achieved anything you put your mind in to. I believe everything I have learned in this class will be extremely beneficial in my future…
I use a personal writing process, which to me is a mixture of a lot of things. It usually consists of brainstorming, which I use to decide on what my topic will be about and ideas to use in my paper. Next I use research to gather information and to get details for my paper. Another is composing my paper, which I use to put my information and ideas together. Then the final…
My writing experiences has had a big effect in my life, although they have been troublesome. It was the first time in my life that I can recall feeling bad about myself which I was affected by name spelling, bullying, and anger issues.…
Hello ma'am, I hope everything is well. I'm just checking in if you're still interested in discussing the job. I want to know more about it as I love writing proposals. I have experience in promoting websites, articles, an app, and a store. My writing style is to always communicate value and think what's the benefit to my reader in a polite and concise manner.…
Every time I am told to write about myself I get short and terrifying flashbacks of my middle school days where I, barely a teenager, had to spit out an entire page journal answering a question and relating it to myself. After three years I learned how to write those journals in about twenty minutes and have it ready to be turned in with little to no actual emotion in the piece. Now, barely an adult, I hope to have more emotion in my writing along with less complaining. While I cannot completely quit on disliking writing for “pleasure” I can put my best foot forward starting with this paper. My four motivations to write are mainly to graduate from college, to tell a story, to use my own forms of creativity and to teach lessons.…
Managing time wisely is a helpful skill to remember when writing. With each essay you have to block off time to brainstorm, form an outline, write an intro and conclusion, form body paragraphs, and peer revisions. I began brainstorming as soon as possible when starting a new essay, because without a main focus point it is impossible to start writing the paper. After brainstorming, moving onto the outline is the next step. Within the outline, I made bullet points for what I wanted each body paragraph to contain. By doing this…
New insights I have developed about the genre include being able to communicate effectively without appearing to repeat yourself and knowing that there is a major difference between speaking to small groups, large groups, and writing a paper in general. Personal functions that this serves is gaining a deeper insight to my own views, while public functions can be addressing larger issues to a major group.…
What a journey my writing has experience over the past seven weeks has been. I have grown as writer more in this class than I have previously. Writing has always been a challenge for me. Many people have heard of someone who just can’t get math, well that is me with writing. Back in high school there many times that an assignment did not get turned, not because I had not worked on it, but I could never get the ideas in my head to make sense when I wrote them on paper. I would get so frustrated that many ended up in the trash crumpled. For every assignment we have worked on I still get frustrated. What takes many, minutes to write and sound eloquent take me, hours to sound short and abrupt. But with each lesson we have gone through my…
My present writing style is to read the instructions of the assignment to get the general sense of what is expected. Sometimes I begin by skimming the information and then rereading the material a few more times to make sure I have all of the required details. Some of the things I find beneficial to writing is taking notes while I research and coping down the URL in case I decide to use it within the paper. Many times these notes are typed out on my computer in complete sentences. In addition, the computer is the only source I utilize to write as typing keeps up with the thoughts which seem to come at the speed of light. This tends to happen when I am very passionate about the topic. Another time saver is working to develop a strong theme…
As I states in my self-assessment, I have learned many different styles of writing from high school writing classes to writing 39B. However, I have never written a research paper. From High School writing classes to Academic English, all my essays are in the ordinary five paragraph essay structure. When moving to Writing 39 series, we were expected to write more than five paragraph papers.…
As my second semester in college comes to an end, composition two writing class gave me a great opportunity for me to improve my writing skills. It also gives me hope that in the next several years of college life I could become successful in many writing forms. In this semester, there was four main essays to write and also quizzes of different topics such as fallacies. It was a very good learning experience. I learn how to analyze different people’s writings, because not everyone writes the same. The text book of this class, Norton Field Guide, I can say helped me a lot. The articles in the text book are very interesting and allows me to read different forms of writing from persuasive to argumentative. I did not notice before, but I have started…