Relationship with Writing. Essay
My Relationship With Writing Like most people, writing has made an impact on my life. I didn't notice it right away, but once I did it changed my life forever. I consider myself to be a fairly decent writer and I would say it was the only thing that kept me going. I love writing that involves thinking and real emotion. Writingjournals and letters have helped me get through a lot in my life and that is really something I will never forget. For the most part, I like to write. I surprise myself sometimes when I read what I have written. Essays don't seem to be that hard for me and most of the time comes naturally to write. Ever since I was younger, reading and writing were always my strong points in school. Math and science didn't stand...show more content...
Some times it would be a free write where we could write anything on our mind. Most of the time I just wrote on what I had done and how I was feeling that day. Other times, he would write down a quote on the board and we would interpret what we thought it meant. This is where I realized that writing can really have an impact on peoples lives. Things can be interpreted in so many ways and by sharing our thoughts on the quotes, I noticed that not everyone was the same. With my experience in a sophomore English class, this really helped me realize that this is a passion for me. In the beginning of the year, I really dreaded it because I thought I couldn't write a full page in 10 minutes. By the end of the year, I couldn't wait to get to English class to write down how I was feeling or interpret a quote that was chosen. I guess you could say that my favorite type of writing would have to be in journal format. I have enjoyed essay writing and letters just as much though. Since the day one of my best friends left for basic training for the military, I have written him a whole bunch of letters. I enjoyed doing this because not only was it the only way to communicate with him, but it was somewhere I could write down my feelings. Having the opportunity to let things off my chest by writing has probably changed my life. I don't say that lightly because there have been instances where I felt like I was hopeless and having the chance to
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My Writing Experiences My experiences in writing have been minimal. I have only learned the basics of writing, like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that. Since I have been taking college English, I can tell my writing has improved a lot. In the future, I hope to be able to improve tremendously at writing essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories so that I have very little to no errors with drafting and final products. I predict I will be a well rounded writer when I graduate from college. Writing in the past started in kindergarten. My teacher taught me how to write my name over and over until I could write it with no errors. All through elementary my teachers taught me...show more content...
I need to learn to quit thinking as much on what I want to write about and how to write about a topic and just starting jotting stuff down in outline form as it comes to mind. Run–ons and fragments I need to be able to spot and fix right away or I really need to not have any in my papers at all. My goals are to write papers and not have to reassure myself that maybe I need to do more research or have more data or even have to rethink my whole topic over. I would love to have the knowledge to be a tutor someday and teach other people how to properly write papers, paragraphs, essays, and maybe even books. To have excellent skills in writing will definitely be a great advantage in my nursing profession. In nursing, I will have to do lots of charting on my patients. I will have to do health presentations on various subjects such as exercising, how our society eats, and sex education if I want to be a course instructor. Researching information on all of those topics I will have to make sure I do an excellent job on and collect accurate information and statistics so that I can compare to other sources. Dictating to the doctor means that I will need to write properly so that he understands what I am saying. Other nurses will have to be able to understand what I am talking about by my writing skills when doing shift changes. I will have to be very precise so that other nurses will not
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4 Steps to an Effective Scholarship Essay
Typically speaking, the scholarship essays which students turn in are, well, to put it mildly, not that good. I'm going to generalize, but you should know this. They're typically boring, underdeveloped without sufficient details, and very unpersuasive. Remember, the scholarshipessay is a piece of persuasion. The people reviewing your essay will be going through a bunch of applications, and you need to distinguish yourself. You need to make the reader care. You might be saying to yourself, "I'm not the best writer" and "There are certainly better writers out there." You might be right but that doesn't mean that you can't win the scholarship and it doesn't mean you can't write a more persuasive...show more content... Since you don't have to worry about whether there are any mistakes or whether someone else would like or dislike what you write, try to pour your full attention on the feelings and thoughts in your mind. Invite risks. Remember you don't have to show freewriting to anyone except to me at the end of the semester in your generative writings, and you may edit out anything with which you're uncomfortable.
Focused freewriting
This is writing where you stay on one topic, but you harness your "freewriting muscle"– the muscle that enables your to pour words down on paper without planning or worrying about quality. You are harnessing that muscle for the sake of exploring one subject. Focused freewriting is especially useful for the hardest thing about writing: getting started.
Focused freewriting is a tremendously powerful technique to help you in writing your essay, but you need to have topics or, better yet, questions which stimulate effective writing. We're all smart as whips if we're asked interesting questions. Ask a boring question and we're dumb as posts. So, you're welcome to make up your own questions, but here are a few which might help. Now, your scholarship may have a particular topic and you'll have to gear your responses appropriately, but here are some which I found useful for all scholarship essays:
Step 1: Generating Writing Easily 1. (10 minute freewrite) What
My Writing
In the past four years, I have written many papers for various classes, enjoying some and others having to choke out words to write down. In this memo I will describe my writing projects and how they made me become a better writer, and how they will continue to help develop me into a becoming a more prosperous writer.
What I Really Learned in English 100
Well as a recent pupil of the Great McFadden I want to do all that I can to be on his good side, for he said that if I go one mile to meet him, he will go two miles to meet me, which seems more that fair. As an assignment I am told that I have to write what I learned in English 100 and how that it prepared me for English 200. Well sincehonesty is the best way of...show more content... Having taken many writing classes I have learned many things about writing. I enjoy writing and can often write many pages about things that I am interested in. I know that I have more learning to do about writing, and hopefully in the next couple weeks my knowledge of writing will have expanded and my writing will have improved.
My Experience With Writing Arguments
I am unaware of any writing arguments. The only thing I can really think of is writing a research paper with the intent to change people's minds on a certain subject. I remember researching for weeks in the library, looking through magazine after magazine. I had searched for enough information to write a ten–page paper. The writing process of the paper took several weeks but when I had finished, all the hard work was worth the effort. I learned many things from that course such as that you need to search for all the information you can because it is better to have too much information than not enough. Also that course taught me many things about making references to the authors of the articles I used for my paper. I remember writing out note card after note card and keeping all the necessary information about each book or magazine. That course taught me to become a better writer and to respect how much detail really goes into a research paper like I had written. Other than that, I have not
Reading and Writing Skills
I remember when I started kindergarten. It was August 27, 1990. I'm still a little angry about that day because it was my fifth birthday and I still remember that I didn't get to wear a crown on that day like the rest of my classmates did on their birthdays. I guess I didn't get to wear the crown because it was the first day of school. But besides that, kindergarten was a really great year. In the mornings we'd go around the classroom to different stations and play different games, then we'd go to P.E., thenlunch, and finally nap time. That was the year I learned how to count to one thousand. My teacher Mrs. Collins would sit with us and we'd count every morning. And every morning we'd count a...show more content...
I also went through a phase in junior high where I bought non–fiction diaries of teenagers that struggled through different problems. Those always kept me entertained and they were the type of books that I could never put down. Reading was never something that I just did in school. I did it whenever we had free time in class, after school, and at night before bed. It was always one of my hobbies. I also found writing very interesting. I enjoyed writing papers for all of my English classes. Every one was a little different and every year I truly believe that I became a better writer. I learned different ways to write and I believe that I always met my teacher's expectations in my papers. I remember in fifth grade I had to write my first autobiography. That was the only time until now that I got to write entirely about myself. It's a project that I'll never forget. My teacher gave us about a month to write this paper and put a book together. The book consisted of my paper and pictures all glued to construction paper. In that autobiography I wrote about my time growing up, my family, my friends, my hobbies, etc. My parents still have that book. It was such an impacting project. It was really nice to reflect on my time growing up and the things I enjoyed.
When I was eight years old, I learned how to play the piano. Even though reading music is different than reading words and sentences, it's also very much the same. Different notes are put Get more content