Personal Essay

I hated writing essays. I was absolutely horrible. I tried to take classes that had nothing to do with writing regular english class we were required to take. I would wait till the latest I could to type my essays. I felt like I would not get a good grade anyway. I tried to do the best I can, but somehow I would also get a bad grade due to my poor grammer. I do not…

some form or fashion, whether it be scribbles, repetitive words, my name (or the names of family members), or random sentences that had nothing to do with anything. As I grew older, I would even find myself writing more than enough when it came to essays. I could never bring myself to leave out any details and I rarely used simple sentences. Originally, I thought it was because I wanted the validation of my parents and teachers, but it was something else that I had yet to realize. I liked…

I am a student, so I have opportunity to write academic writing. Also, I am young, so I use slang when I write to friends. I learned that my writing style tend to simple, and formal, but sometimes casual. My writing style commonality is simple. In the Facebook post, sentences are very simple and I did not use emoji and other marks. I just focused to tell people what I did, how I though about the place, and pictures explanation. The text message is a same thing as the Facebook post, sentences…

memory as well. Despite most people’s best efforts, many listen quite willingly to the opinions of those around them. Humans are an extremely social species, and therefore rely on the ideas of others to create their own, and that includes shaping a personal identity to match what the majority…

I wasn’t even considered a teenager when I was diagnosed with clinical depression. I hadn’t even understood the concept of mental disability when I began physically harming myself. All I knew was that cutting provided temporary relief from my anxieties, anxieties that I was hardly able to comprehend. A twelve-year-old is not supposed to hate themselves or be crippled by their own sadness, and yet at that time I was unscrewing the blades off pencil sharpeners anyways. For a large portion of my…

communicate and expand our minds. It is not only sickening that we quickly dismiss others, but also inconsiderate that we do not take in account of the others people’s view, resulting in disadvantage for others and ourselves. For these reason I live by a personal philosophy that is mentioned in behavior psychologist B.F. Skinners book Science and Human Behavior, which sheds light on what we shouldn’t do, “dismiss those who do not agree with us as a victim of ignorance” (B.F. Skinner). While some…

Since the first day of semester I have written about fifteen essays and my writing process have changed a little bit. Such as taking less time hand writing my essay and just going to the computer and typing it. But when I still research about what I am going to write about i just don 't hand write it down on a piece of paper. The thing that didn 't change was how I brainstorm my ideas and that is by being in a quiet room and the best time for me to brainstorm my ideas is middle of the day and…

Every week I write a different letter to my best friend, usually about the terrible teachers at my high school. By best friend, I mean to say my only best friend. My letters are painfully long, but I know Oli appreciates them as he always writes back. Now, why would my best friend be so far away? What a long story that is. Everything began the day before summer in fifth grade. On this day, which is now marked in my pastel blue calendar, a small boy decided to approach me and compliment my outfit…

writing pieces effectively is quite difficult for me. I believe college will help me develop the communication skills I desperately lacked when I was a child. The obvious reason I landed inside English 95 is because I don’t know how to structure my essays effectively.…

My Writing Process: When I received the prompt for our first essay I glanced at it, and tried to understand the main point, the thing we were being asked to write about. As you many others writing does not come naturally to me, so I knew that I would have to have read the prompt several times before I even considered beginning on the rough draft for my first essay. After reading the prompt in class I started to highlight phrases, questions, and anything that stood out to me. Mean while all these…