my self as a reeader and writer
Since entering this journey of reading and writing, I find myself in an empty world of language. My lack of experience in reading and writing has caused me great fear in many of my English classes. It is the only vulnerable area in my otherwise indomitable academic shield. I don't really enjoy writing; I have like reading even less. Other than an occasional magazine, I really don't remember the last thing I've read since Lord of the Flies, in my junior year of high school English. I never read in the past, not in middle school, not in high school. Now this writing assignment confronts me with a great task: a formal paper, I haven't written a formal paper since senior year. I feel like an old snow blower that has been put away until the winter and is being taken out for the first snow. All the educational influences I have had in my life, from teachers to my parents have told me I have great potential and that I am very smart. In all my other subjects I excel, in science, math and history, for example. I attack these subjects like a dog after his bone, but when it comes to writing, I shy away and put my tail between my legs and hide. In my eyes writing is a useless hassle; it frustrates me. I don't honestly enjoy writing; I find
On the other hand writing does bring you later success in life and makes you a more intellectual person. It poses a challenge for me to get through a long paper or a never- ending book. When I start my paper and get that first sentence down, writing seems like a piece of cake, but then I start to slow. Russell states," work is better then no work at all, and a man with the worst job is happier then a man with none. My lack of experience in reading and writing has not yet greatly effected me academically. In elementary school I remember we had a reading log; we had to read a book and write a review of it. When it comes to grammar, I am not the best, yet even though I say this my graded paper barely have any marks or corrections. It wasn't even a hard paper, it's just that I didn't want to write it. For example, when I was in high school. It helps me organize and get my thoughts and ideas on paper, this helps keep me on task and starts me off on the right foot with my paper. During my many years of education I seem to have slipped through the reading and writing cracks. It took me almost a full day to write that paper because I just kept on putting it off to do something else, (eat, swim, or watch television). I have stayed away from classes with a lot of reading and writing and have spent my energy on subjects in which I excel. I believe I can write good papers, but it takes time and a lot of effort on my part.
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