The Importance Of Writing A Paper

I am a reader not a writer. I enjoy reading more than I enjoy writing. I would rather read than write any day. The reason I enjoy reading is because I can be in a different world just by reading words off a page. I can read for hours on end and never get bored. However, when it comes to writing I have a hard time finding words to put on the paper. I can write a research paper because I have a specific topic to write about and the paper is formulated. I know I need an introduction, body paragraphs with examples, and a conclusion. Yet, writing the paper is still not enjoyable. I see writing as brutal and time consuming. It is not that I struggle with writing it is just that it is overwhelming and has too many guidelines and rules. Before I write the paper, I have to plan out what I am going to write in an outline. Once I am done making the outline, I have to write a rough draft and proofread the paper. When I am done finding all of my mistakes I have to correct them. When I am done with essay I feel relieved but also drained. Many people enjoy writing and free writing but for me, free writing is my worst nightmare. I am not good at expressing myself in writing. Writing poetry, short stories, and journals have always been my downfall. I feel that in order to be good at writing a person has to be creative. I know I do not have a creative bone in my body. With reading all I need is imagination and I let my brain do the creating for me. When I am writing it feels like a job and I just do it for the grade and not for enjoyment. I would like to work on this issue but it will be hard because it is the way I have view writing for a long time. One day I would like to say that I enjoy writing just as much as I love reading. There has been many experiences in my life that have shaped me as a reader and a writer. Growing up, I was always an avid reader and a novice writer. I enjoyed reading all types of books as a child. I read all of the Goosebumps books. I had all of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. When the book fair would come to my school, I would always have to buy a book. The school librarian knew my name by heart because I would always come and check out books. Reading has always and will always be my strength. In elementary school, my teachers focused more on reading than writing. We would have weekly readings and prizes whenever we finished a book. Also we would have to take test on the book we read and have a certain score in order to move onto the next book. As I went from third to fifth grade, the stories were read to use with an audio tape. I enjoyed this because the audio tape would change the voices and add sound effects while we read as a class. However, when I went to the fourth and fifth grade we started reading short novels and we had to read more books on our own and not listen to them. I started realizing that I like this better because I could make the characters look how I imagined and sound how I wanted them to sound. I really loved when we would read a novel and then watch to the movie version. One book I remember reading in the fifth grade is Tuck …show more content…
We had to start reading our textbooks. Reading textbooks was very different for me as a child in school. There wasn’t a plot or characters and I would get bored easily. But having the guided reading questions and activities helped me stay focused and know what I was reading for. This carried on all the way until high school. The only thing that changed is what I grasped from the reading. In high school, I had to think more critically about my reading. For example in English class, we would have student led discussions about what we read the night before. These discussion groups helped me think in more detail about why an author did something or why a character did something in the