Personal Narrative: My First College Writing Class

There are good writers and there are good writers who work hard to become better.
Mrs. Fiske, my English teacher junior and senior year of high school always told me that I was one of the best writers in my class but I could always be better. Spelling has always been one of my strong suits and I always get bothered when people can’t spell simple words. I’m pretty good at writing essays but I do not enjoy writing them at all. At this point in time I am wondering how my abilities will affect my grade in my first college writing class. Mrs. Fiske taught me that if you keep working at the things you struggle with you eventually won’t struggle with those things anymore. You have to work hard to succeed, it doesn't just happen, so that’s what I did; I worked hard. Due to the hard work I put into learning how to write essays my junior year, it affected the grades I got on my papers during senior year. I do not recall getting a grade below a B junior year, or below an A my senior year. I not only got good grades on my essays but also on the spelling and grammar packets we had to do. Spelling has always came pretty easy to me and I was pretty average when it comes to grammar. I always get annoyed on social media when people my age or older can’t …show more content…
Another reason I don’t like writing them is because I usually can’t pick what kind of essay I want to write or what I want to write about. The format is a huge reason I why writing essays is not fun. I was always taught MLA format up until I had Mrs. Fiske. She taught APA format because she said that is what we would use in college. That made me completely forget how to use MLA format and here I am needing it. I don’t understand why there has to be a certain format that things are written in. Why can’t we just write paragraphs? I am hoping it comes back to me and I can figure it out again before it causes me to get a bad