Personal Reflection On My Literacy Experience

English was always my favorite subject, and I loved reading. But even though I was good at English I truly lacked having writing skills. My noteworthy literacy experience was when I passed the Grade 8 Writing Assessment test after failing it the first time. This experience gave me the fortitude to practice on my writing skills and it actually motivated me to write stories and essays for school with no hesitation. When reading the different literacy narratives, I felt Nichols’s essay was relatable to my experience. My experience compares to Shannon Nichols literacy narrative because our experiences focuses on our emotional reaction to a writing test that changed our perception of our literacy knowledge.
Before taking the Writing Assessment test my worst fear was writing. Picking up a pencil too write about anything was a horrifying thing to …show more content…
Nichols and I both learned that writing is much more than just writing a simple essay. Our frustration for writing depicted our emotion towards failing. But this experience taught me that failure is not something that should be seen as negative aspect, but should be seen as motivation to work harder. Failure and my hate for writing drove me as student to do great. Both Nichols and I experiences made use look at writing in a new perspective. My experience help encouraged me to be a better writer and write from the heart no matter what anyone says. My writing skills are improving and getting better over time. My view on writing is changing the more I start writing every day in college. Writing has never been my passion, but writing has allowed me to express my emotions on paper instead of verbally speaking about how I feel. Writing now in college has been easy for me to do because of my writing history. To this day I still consider writing to not be my forte, but I will get better at as I go through college and I might even become a good writer