Personal Narrative: My Journey To Become A Better Writer

On my journey to becoming a better writer I’ve encountered many obstacles. Growing up in Birmingham, Al hearing everyone around you speak with a southern accent was very common. While trying to improve my writing skills I came across many obstacles because of the way I talked. Although I suffered complications with my writing, when I began my 12th grade year I encountered a huge turn around when I took AP Literature. During that course my writing skills improved tremendously. The copious amount of essays my teacher had me to write, the skills she taught me, weekend study sessions, peer reviews, and her constructive criticism has played a huge role in the improvements of my writing. In my school the only classes that taught you what you needed to know for your grade level were AP courses. Other teachers took it easy on their students just to pass them along to their next grade level …show more content…
She would take time to have the whole class give inputs on each essay and how it could be better. Peer reviews have helped me become a better writer because you get a chance to see your paper or essay from a different point of view. At first I was kind of nervous letting someone else view the way that I write but as we constantly did them I became more comfortable. When doing peer reviews you were able to view the pros and cons of your writing. During Saturday sessions she would also have us do many activities involving description of objects, places, or images. These activities were used to show how descriptive she wanted us to be when writing. She also used the sessions to give us one on one help with writing if we needed it. Although we dreaded waking up early to come to the sessions she did all that she could to make it as interesting as possible. As time went past and we began attending Saturday sessions twice a month I began to see a major improvement in my