My Writing Experience

A person can read and write a great deal in one day whether they realize it or not. Whether it be texting a friend or reading a textbook for a certain class, you are reading and writing constantly and a daily basis. What surprised me the most about the reading and writing that I did on Sunday was how much I am reading and writing on my phone. Whether I am texting to coordinate plans with a friend for the night or reading a random article I saw while reading a Facebook news feed, I am constantly reading and writing on my phone. I never considered it reading and writing when I used my phone, I just saw it as looking at my phone. Just staring at this four-inch screen for some sort of entertainment. What also surprised me was how much we read without noticing it. You can walk down State Street and you will be constantly reading by looking at stores, posters, or even words on a bus that is passing by. Our eyes and brains are looking at and reading words all the time.

I immensely struggled when writing. Taking my scrambled thoughts and uncoordinated analysis and converting it into clean and understandable words on a page was arduous. I could not express my thoughts in proper academic format. I understood the importance of writing to every subject. It was essential that I learn to condense my ideas and feeling into coherent written word. After much debate, I decided that the best way to improve my writing skills was to take an advanced English course.

I became the literate person I am today by mostly writing, I write all the time and I do a little reading. What made me love writing was the fact I found an escape, not on an emotional level, but writing is something to help ease in my opinion. My personal writing has influenced me more than the writing I was assigned in school, I continued it outside of school as a choice of my own, once I started I never stopped. My viewpoint on reading is different than my viewpoint on writing, reading is not that bad but it can get boring. What made me feel different about reading from writing, is probably the fact, reading just takes time, like when I write, I write any and everytthing however I want. But, to read a book, I have to read it a certain way

Although writing is essential in our lives like water and in which it is use to express our emotions on a piece of paper, it can also let some of us as me with a traumatic experience. Even though, writing is fundamental to our lives, it can also leave you with a bad taste, for example; I used to and still consider myself having terrible handwriting and difficulties in starting my essays. That at the end, I know it will help me throughout my career if I perfection it.

Throughout my life, the English language has acted as something much more than a communicative tool. Because I emigrated from Germany to the US when I was almost five years old, my adoption and ongoing usage of the English tongue has connoted a change of cultural, and even personal, identity in my life. I did not know one word of English when I arrived in the US in 2004, and so, as I learned English, thus I became familiar with the new life I would live on the other side of the Atlantic. I quickly became fluent in English and entered public school after one year of preschool. I remember that, for the first hundred days of kindergarten, I did not utter one word. This was not due to a lack of English ability, but rather to my shyness and the fact that I was still acquainting myself to the norms of existence in the US. Following this, my shyness

Reading and writing has always created a sense of understanding for me in my art. Reading in the literal sense is a way that we understand text or symbols in our minds which in turn create meaning. Writing also in a literal sense is our way of communicating our knowledge and emotions to others through symbols in text. The human experience for all people includes communication and through reading and writing this experience is created. From the beginning of this course, my only prior experience with reading and writing were high school level course over literature and reading. I had an average level of rhetoric,reading,writing and language overall however, understanding the significance of these subjects was never put forth in such a way until I took this course. I discovered through this course that reading is a combination of not only our “visual information” but also our “nonvisual information”. My comprehension of reading has evolved from reading

One of my most challenging experiences in writing was actually in Virginia Wesleyan College. During my last semester, I was taking Professor Ruh’s ENG 250 class called 19th Century American Women Writers, and we were required to write a few literary analytical essays on novels and short stories that were written by women during the 19th century. Even though the class was very interesting, I was having such a hard time writing my essays that I actually thought I would never be able to pass his class after I failed my first essay. I am usually the type of student that never asks for help because I would often feel intimidated by my teachers. However, I managed to speak up and ask for his help throughout the entire semester and because of that,

​As time went by and I took different types of writing assignments, I improved the structure and organization of my writing. I learned the use of Standard English rules and styles in constructing sentences. I also learned how to organize my thoughts, ideas and experiences. Furthermore, I learned how to construct and maintain a coherent transition of paragraphs, as well as, how to select words, idioms, sayings and phrases that best suited the topic or purpose. With time, I even started to use diagrams to help organize my thoughts, ideas regarding the intended topic even before I write it. Learning how to remain relevant to a topic has enabled me to improve my grades.

Since I studied at Stamford International University, my writing skill gain a lot of improvement on many specific aspects such as grammar, critical thinking, logic, style of writing as well as the way I explore idea on the paper. On my ACP2, it was my first term to study at Stamford when I had no idea about how to create proper essay. My old knowledge of English cannot be applied at all during that time. However, after I studied for a few weeks, I became more confident when I start writing an essay. That was because I have improved my skill. After I finished the course and move toward Eng101 and Eng102, I felt that English is an interesting subject of never ending lessons to learn. Some specific examples to prove how I developed writing skill

In high school, I learned a lot of different things about grammar and little bit about writing a paragraph. In the class, it was getting the hard word and the class that I did not understand the story. I get the book to read and have to write about it. I was not to get what to write and not understanding the book. Other, I was starting to put more effort than other by going to after school and talking to the teacher. As after school, I meet the teacher and talk about the story and word that I don’t understand. Also, the teacher helps me to write an essay about the story. More often, I get to know about grammar, when we write when to put the comma and how to break down the run on

I started the Writing I class with high expectative for improve my English and, of course, my writing, since last English class, the basic class, we, students, do not write a lot. The first classes were easier than the last ones, with simple sentences and text, which I read with attention. The unit about planning was the most helpful; although I already knew the steps of planning, I didn’t used with frequency. Usually, the words just flow from my mind to the paper, but the planning helps when I have to write a paragraph or text whose theme is difficult for me. The peer editing was helpful too, but the most difficult to do, because force me to study and look for grammar

On the first day of English class, I aspired that I was going to be a great writer. As Loren Eiseley says in her poem, “The Snout” “It began with a strangled gasping for air” (Eiseley). College English came at an unbelievable speed. The material I learned from high school didn’t match up to the information I was about to encounter. To me the class felt like a dream that I have to pass to move on into a better place. But, ever since the class, I have acquired knowledge and developed many new skills in English like how to transform my mediocre essay, into a proper use of accurate punctuations, great transitions and detailed paragraphs.

As a freshman in high school, I wrote a lot in my English class, but not so much in a specific format. The only format we worried about was to have an intro, three body parts, and a conclusion. For me, it was difficult writing an intro and till this day is still, my intros did not make sense with what I was writing about or I jumped right into the details. Also, had trouble focusing on the prompt, I would start my essay and towards the end I would go off topic. My English grammar has not always been the best, but it has progressed and it has been getting better. My first language is Spanish and I grew up writing only in Spanish even though my class had to be bilingual. I started writing and reading in English in the fifth grade. For me, it was a challenge. I would try to write in English, but when I would, in my head it sounded in English, but when I spelled it I would write in Spanish. I still do it sometimes, but with technology; looking up words, my writing has progressed. Sophomore year was probably one of the toughest year and where I learned the most. I had an amazing teacher named Mrs.Wagner who helped me a lot in my writing. She taught me how to brainstorm because I had a lot of trouble trying to put my ideas together. Mrs.Wagner taught me how to write a formal letter, persuasive essay and many other types of essay. I am so thankful because of her my writing has improved so much and I was able to pass my CAHSEE. Junior was not a year I was proud of due to failing

My entire highschool career English was taught incredibly different from how public schools teach the subject. Most of the time our classes would include group projects, powerpoints, and reading in and out of class. Throughout the four years we rarely ever worked on writing and how to properly formulate a paper. There was no instruction on how to draft or how often we are to revise our papers. I didn’t learn how to write argumentative, persuasive, or informative essays. We also were never taught how to properly cite sources, include quotations, and the difference between MLA and APA. College was a shock to me, my first ever college paper was APA and I had no clue what APA format even was. It was so intimidating that I dropped the course. Through the classes I have taken at COC I had a general idea of how to write but nothing near what I have learned in this class. Coming into this course my skills were dull and I was eager to learn. I have always really enjoyed writing, and one day I want to write a book. Throughout this semester I feel as if I’ve really grown in my writing skills. After two years at COC I finally feel prepared enough to move on to receive my bachelors.

Starting the high school, one the most significant series of events that shaped my writing skills, was my academic studies. When I joined the school, I was very weak in English and most of my