Creative nonfiction

Frederick Douglass once said “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”, and in my specific case, I find that statement to be extremely true. Since I was a young child, I loved to read and sometimes I even tried to write little songs or stories, even if they weren’t good. The thing is though, that since then, a lot has changed. Books have changed, the people who write have changed, the way people in general look at literacy has changed and most of all, I have changed. Therefore I find it…

Writing papers for school has given me the opportunity to learn more about a variety of topics. I returned to college about six years ago after a very lengthy hiatus. I enrolled in three classes at Charter Oak State College (COSC), one accelerated course at a time. At that time some of the more interesting papers that I had written were on Designer Babies and comparing the Modern and Post Modern theories of play. I struggled with the new way of doing research, I originally started college in…

When I was little, I always said I didn’t like reading. I never considered myself to be a valuable reader or writer. My parents both loved reading, and I was always told that I would feel differently about it when I was older. As the story often goes, my parents were right. As I grew older and was exposed to people who did love reading and writing. I learned to love it just as they did. The three people in my life who have been influential to my skills as a reader and a writer are my mother,…

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…