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Writing Definition Essay

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Writing is something I don't really enjoy doing. Transferring my thoughts to paper as clearly as possible is difficult for me. In the past, the goal of my previous teachers was to make sure I knew how to write but didn’t make sure I knew how to write well. My meaning of writing well would be using correct grammar, fluency and a clear understanding. I believe if you have to question what someone wrote then it wasn’t written very well. The question is who am I to judge another’s writing?

I call myself a reader. I love to read books. Fiction, nonfiction I don’t care as long as when I start reading it I can’t stop. My elementary school teachers used to tell me if I want to know how to write then I should read but I never found that …show more content…

I had a hard time trying to elaborate on the idea I was writing about. When writing, sometimes I can rewrite an idea over and over. Most of my teachers would notice and write notes on my paper telling me that my writing would be great if I had more evidence to back it up. This became an issue in research papers because would assume that I didn’t do the research correctly. To help me with that problem, I started asking different questions regarding each piece of information to help me elaborate on it. I asked questions about the writers in my research and their motivation in order to elaborate more in my writing. Another thing that helped me improve my writing was reading other examples of the type of paper I was writing. I always make sure it was on the same exact topic but just the genre was …show more content…

I have to stop trying to avoid it and try to embrace it. The grammar and the actual writing is something I hate. I would rather talk it out then put my ideas on paper. It is something I have to get over if I would like to continue to succeed in my career. Thinking about all the possibilities that writing well could get me I know that it would be worth. There are so many thing in writing that I have yet to learn and this means that my journey in writing isn’t over. Writing is a journey that will never be over as long as I am able to

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