On Writing

inform someone that I am currently taking this course, there is a stale, predictable response I invariably receive. “Why? Did you forget to get your extra language credit?” to which I would swiftly reply, “no, I took it because I want to improve my writing”. I ensured I received the necessary credits in those three special categories a long time ago, by fulfilling the requirement in grade 10. I knew that in these bigger, more demanding grades, my course selection should not be dictated by…

on the day. Writing and reading creates solitude of the mind to function as it pleases. Recording all your thoughts is impossible, our minds move too quickly. But writing down the moments that deserve your attention can change your thought process on a bad day. My reasons to write pertain to what I wish I could say or things I wish would happen. But wishful thinking can be toxic and if the toxicity reaches out and harms others you end up wanting to reverse your initial thought. Writing for me is…

Over the course of my freshman year, I have taken a couple writing classes and have used my writing skills and methods to write many important papers. In the classes that I’ve taken, I’ve learned to communicate my ideas and myself as a whole in a more professional and coherent manner. Both of the professors I’ve had thought me various methods for advancing my writing. I’m becoming more comfortable with paraphrasing and analyzing various sources and tools. Although not finished, I feel like I’m…

Throughout this semester, My Writing has been improved in relation to understanding the genre conventions and identifying the rules for different writing processes. One of the topics I learned how to master throughout this semester is becoming better at in-text citations. Another topic that my writing has improved in is in media res. In media res might have been one of the hardest parts I had to try to learn and had to improve on. The third improvement in my writing process had to be on genre…

Writing about my own writing sounds complicated and difficult. When I was assigned this essay, I had a blank mind and no thoughts were whistling by. But once I started to think about it, some things were coming to mind. Ever since I was introduced to the website Paperrater, my whole writing concept has changed for the better. Not only did I improve on my transitioning, but I improved on my word choice and sentence structuring. I feel my writing technique has helped me since my freshman year in…

Writing has always been a pastime for me. When I was younger, I loved writing stories just for fun or to have something to share with my family and friends. I remember being able to sit down for hours on end and write full pages worth of writing. Whether it made any sense, had proper grammar, and even if it was legible didn’t matter to me. It was writing that I could truly say was my own and be proud of. In fact, writing has never been really significant for students like me up until middle…

My writing is the atrocious, but only when I’m awake. Let me explain. For some reason my writing becomes astonishingly more vibrant when I’m sleep deprived. My typical essay grade was between an 85 or a 90, and trust me when I tell you the amount of effort I put into writing those essays cannot be described my mere words. To understand my writing life, let’s go way, way back to when I was around the age of 8. The neighborhood I lived in was lively and vibrant; it was as if the sun never stopped…

“Writing Literacy Memoir” It 's strange how clearly I remember this paper ,where I can not remember what I did last week. It was a Thursday night sometime during May 2013 where it was a hot, humid night and I was exhausted. Where tomorrow I was supposed to start writing my paper about espionage agencies during the Cold War. It was a 10-page research paper on how the Cold War was impacted by the KGB, MI6, and CIA. Its so clear on how when I entered the class and began typing away that…

I’m writing you a letter from the future. Well actually it’s not a letter at all, it’s an assignment that I’ve disguised to look like a letter. So I lied to you, deal with it, I’ve been lying to myself for years. This piece of writing here is a reflection. Past Thos, I know you hate reflections, I do to, but this right here is the best reflection you’ll ever write. You’re about to have an interesting semester. Not only because your body is going to fall a part all of a sudden, but because you’re…

primary American education, writing has become an extremely begrudging task. I can personally attest to that felling, teachers hold a lot of power, they can either make it easy for students to fall in love with a subject, or ruin it for them forever. In my writing experience I have had my fair share of teachers doing the latter. From writing dozens "mementos" for my senior memory book, to writing dry papers for standardized state tests year after year, it 's easy to see why writing can leave a…