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Throughout my years of school, I have learned that the area that I struggle with the most is writing papers. I have difficulty turning my thought into words for a paper. I always know what I want to address in the paper, but struggle finding the words to say. I also struggle because I am what some call a perfectionist. When I am writing I will constantly delete what I have said and find a new, better way to say it. This can be about how I word a sentence or simply the vocabulary. I spend most of my time…
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The Struggles in My Writing History I have been never a good student. My first day of kindergarten was filled with desperate cries and irritating feeling of wanting to go home. I came from a household that would only spoke Spanish, when I went to school many of my peers were learning to write while I was barely learning to speak the language. Throughout my years in elementary, intermediate, and part of my high school journey I was always below average in the academic spectrum. My parents are from…
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Writing always varies with me, sometimes I am suffused with ideas and then other times I can’t even come up with a topic. Louis L’Amour once said, “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” I believe this short quote explains my style of writing. My struggle with writing started when I was younger. I never had the capability to put my ideas onto paper, this was mostly because I struggled with grammar and sentence structure. I hated falling behind, I would…
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Writing a paper comes with its advantages and its disadvantages. Everyone struggles with some aspect of writing a paper, but whether we use those struggle to make it a good or bad experience is up to the writer. I feel like the struggles should seen as a good thing even though the writing process can be long and dreadful, it teaches us something new every time. While writing my literacy narrative I learned many different things that I will be able to carry over into my next paper. While writing…
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the beginning of my senior year, I was constantly debating if I should take a college composition or not. I had original planned to take honors English 12 but, my mother constantly urged me to take college composition now so I wouldn’t have to take it in college. The major reason why I didn’t want to take college composition was because I didn’t want to have a repeat of AP English 11. I struggle all through AP English. Even though it wasn’t necessarily a hard class, it was my writing that held me back…
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as though my papers have increased in quality. However, certain papers are more difficult to write than others. A new form of writing was introduced to me in this course known as autoethnography. "An intriguing and promising qualitative method that offers a way of giving voice to personal experience for the purpose of extending sociological understanding,"(Wall 38). Personally, I found this method of writing intriguing and unlike any other I have come across. Through the act of writing these papers…
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starting this creative writing class I have had very little experience with poetry. Now I have learned many terms, skills and techniques during this quarter which has helped me grow as a writer. I have poems I have now written and am proud of; I have also learned so much though the whole process of sharing in class and reading others works. As a writer I still struggle very much in some departments and I am hoping to continue writing. Before starting this creative writing poetry class; I hadn’t…
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Allison Rinehimer Writing Center Mr. William Phillips 1 September 2012 How I Write When I approach a writing assignment, I often delay commencement because writing is most of the time a long drawn out struggle for me. Depending on the task, I might procrastinate or start as soon as possible to complete it on time. No matter the task assigned, I always approach it with the same tool, a computer. I am not particular when it comes to the style of computer or the brand of the computer, but…
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anti-racist attitude through the use of the humanity and struggle against a backwards society expressed by the main character, Huckleberry Finn. Twain doesn’t write Huck as someone who is clearly against or for society's current state, but in a constant state of struggle with the decisions that he makes, whether be conforming to or breaking away from society. When faced with struggles such as this we get to see Twain write Huck’s inner struggle in a way that we as the reader can empathize with. Making…
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According to Webster’s Dictionary, an essay is a short piece of writing on a particular subject. This term is also known as the dreaded word all students despise hearing, or at least me. Since teachers have begun using the word, I’ve found it challenging to indulge in or be excited about assignments and often find it difficult to put my ideas on paper. Fortunately, I’m an excellent conversationalist, and know how to interact with other people when speaking directly to them, but if asked to record…
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