Reflective Essay: Personal Experience With Writing

Decent Essays
Stacy Odigie
Professor Robinson
English 1301 WC1
12/14/15

Personal Experience with Writing Writing is a defined as an activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text. Writing can be a expression of your individuality; you have the power to express what you feel and how you feel on paper with the power to motivate, inspire, and impact someone's life. Most students may say over the years they have developed good writing skills.Others may not. My experience with writing has left me with struggles and disappointment, but has also made me improve on what I needed to work on to become a better writer. Writing has never been a struggle to me up until my freshman year of high school. My middle school english teacher recommended that I take an honors English class my freshman year and that i would not have any problems with taking such an advanced class. I loved English, but I was never a good writer. Writing was always something I tried to avoid at all cost, but I knew if I could push myself a little harder I can write something pretty decent. My first day of high school, walking into my English class that afternoon made me questioned myself if I was really ready to take on this course. My
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My experience from my freshman year english class has given me the tools and knowledge on how to become a writer in and out of English. My experience in writing has helped crack a code for English classes. Writing is everywhere! no matter how much you try to run and avoid it, you must learn how to develop your own thoughts and ideas in order to organize a paper. I have come to realize that you don’t have to have a natural born talent for writing in order to be a good writer. You must find your weakness, progress in it, and let it become your strength. Writing has allowed me to find my

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