Creative accounting

My Writings Through the First Semester of Creative Writing Walking into Mr. Trice’s classroom on the first day of school for Creative Writing class, I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew we would be writing a lot, but I didn’t know what exactly I would be learning about writing. So walking in on the first day was as if I had a new and fun adventure for an elective each day of school. We started off the year with learning the basics of writing. the little things that help every writer…

College career students come across classes that they are forced to take. Whether it’s a gen-ed (general education), a core requirement, or prerequisite for another class. From that many students come to the conclusion that the classes they come across as believed to be a waste of time, regret taking the class , most of the time they either didn’t learn anything. But from taking this course I can honestly say I learned a lot of things that are useful. Writing is a crucial way in one expressing…

In his autobiography Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez tells his readers about his journey through his education, highlighting his struggles of not feeling comfortable at school, and later, not feeling comfortable at home. He talks about the emotional struggles of being isolated from his family because of his intellect, as well as his long path from knowing “some fifty stray words in English” to being the “scholarship boy” at Stanford University. In his Banquet Speech, William Faulkner…

When I started this subject I was anxious about being competent. I never finished school, as I only went to year 9. English was my least favourite subject; however, I love to write and read. I wrote my paragraph and went to six sites that were listed in the assignment brief and waited for a response. I was nervous and thought that the programs would tell me that my writing was not good; however, it did the opposite. On Paperrater, Grammarly, Grammar Base, there was nothing wrong with my writing…

Meeting one of my oldest friends, Dakota Black, helped to introduce me to the world of reading and writing. I met Dakota on my third day of fifth grade; I was playing with the tetherball during recess when I played against him. We started talking and decided to hang out after the school day, and once my mom dropped me off at his house we started chatting. I learned he was interested in writing and I feigned an interest to keep the conversation going. He talked about the stories he was writing…

Tongue" on "limiting" her "possibilities". Tan realizes that her mother 's English affected her growth and "possibilities in life". Lastly, Tan thought about all about her mother 's English by recalling anecdotes of "few Asian Americans enrolled in creative writing", the early writing experience when envisioning her mother as a reader, and integrated competence of all the English she grew up with. All in all, these anecdotes provide credibility of the influences of her mother 's English on Tan…

Coming to America was terrifying for me. It was a new place to learn new things. The most important thing I was concerned about was reading and writing in english. I knew if I failed to learn how to read and write in english I would not make it in america. It was very crucial for me to learn so when I was in Elementary school in Hampton, there was a school that had this program called ESL. It stands for English Second Language. I was so nervous, I thought other students would tease me on how I…

This school year I enjoyed this English class because it was not very difficult, but it was not easy at all. This year we did so many assignments and some of them were analyzing poems, emulating poems, writing a theme of a poem, presenting a speech in class and then working as a group to create a chapter. I believe that I have grown throughout this school year. I have grown as a listener because back then I was not used to listening to poems without having a paper right in front of me. Now I am…

At the beginning the semester, I was terrified, it had been ten years since I have been in high school, and now finally I was enrolled in college courses. I tried to my best to recall everything I had learned in my time in high school, but I knew throughout the semester it would be an uphill battle. Now with the semester coming to end, I have realized that I have come out the other end with better understanding and knowledge with English Composition that I know will help further succeed in many…

Fiction I has been one of my favorite classes that I have taken at ARGS, so far. Though the countless writer’s block filled nights spent wanting to jump through a window and the excessive amount of money I have spent on tea/coffee this year, I would still do it over and over again, every time. I valued getting able to focus on my weaknesses as a writer in this cass. I also valued all the time we had discussing writing, books, and current events. Most of my favorite conversations from this year…