Composition 1
Learning how to write was the hardest for me. Being able to trace the words correctly and having to take my time was the worst. I never had the patience and I was easily distracted by my classmates. Then as I grew older trying to voice my opinions and write paragraphs became my biggest enemy. Literacy is more than the ability to read and write; it's also the ability to understand what you're reading and make sense in what you're writing. In most cases, literacy is completed through many years of education, but in most of the stories we read in class, the authors had to give themselves an education instead of being taught by parents and teachers. During my years in school, I was continuously challenging with other scholars to be the greatest and the brightest, and it was a lot of effort that I at times didn't want to do. But while some people possibly will think that when reaching literacy entails hard work and gets little result, I think that literacy makes individuals more self-assured and ambitious, more …show more content…
Maybe instead of complaining to read about chapters, writing opinions or solving long problems, I could have viewed them as helping hands which aimed towards perfecting my own writing and reading practices. All the assignments that seemed to be “hard work” in junior high and middle school strictly was supposed to be extremely important building blocks to prepare us for high school and college work. While developing and improving language-based and compositional skills, I began to broaden my vocabulary skills. These skills allowed me as a person to understand and explain what I was reading and learning. Book-related and writing-related skills allow for the bringing across of ideas and they also expressed being an individual through acts where people display their personalities to others in different ways and in forms such as poetry or writing to share