My mother was a single parent and did everything she could to provide a solid education for us, even sending us to private schools with every penny she had. Schools within my area were understaffed and underfunded. The promotion of education to include literacy was not the idea of many, and looking for the ideal role model either began at home or through a teacher who touched you on a personal level. I entered the education system at First Baptist Academy, it had some of the greatest teachers and was known for its literacy program, this early pre-school education provided me the tools to read and write by the age of …show more content…
The hardest part was not responding to someone else’s post but writing my own. From discussion boards came short essay responses to the big four to six page papers. I’ve had to rely on asking the teachers in depth questions on what they wanted in the paper, and also key points to emphasis on. This was the only way for me to complete my assignments, my grades at first were B’s but I’ve been able sense my freshman year to obtain A’s. Regardless of how much I despise writing, college has been a big help in developing my writing skills and relearning the basic fundamentals. What I’ve learned so far has crossed over into my career and played a crucial part in my success.
In the Military much of our writing is clear and concise and straight to the point, except for writing on staff. Knowing how to write in the Military requires reading regulations and just practice, usually without any help and a lot of red ink meaning corrections. Our writing is based on the issue and the audience, but it takes on different meanings based on severity. College helped with outlining my work and expressing myself more deeply. This helped with writing evaluations and counseling’s for my Soldiers, especially when recalling details of an