I think that I am a little uncertain in my writing. I would say it is because I didn’t have a lot of success with my writing my freshman year in high school. My papers would be all marked up when I got them back, and I never got a good grade on them. I never learned how to fix what was wrong with them, which just made things worse. That made me dread writing the next one, so I probably didn’t do as well as I could have. I felt that way because I just knew that my writing wasn’t good enough, and I didn’t have a clue how to fix it for the next paper I had to write. I just knew it was going to be wrong again.
Things got better as I went on through high school. I would say what helped me the most was senior year. We wrote several papers last year. They were all different kinds. I found it helpful to work on things that I needed at the time, such as learning how to write college essays and research papers. We were allowed to keep revising our papers as many times as we wanted. My first paper had several revisions. I think I learned a lot more by being allowed to correct my mistakes and learn from them. That way, as the year went on, I had fewer and fewer revisions to do on the papers I was writing. I think my senior year was the most valuable to me in terms of learning how to write more effectively.
I used to hate writing, but now it doesn’t seem so bad although I may still hesitate at some points. I think that is the hardest part for me. I usually find it difficult to get started. I think that English class will be helpful because it helps teach you how to communicate your ideas more effectively to other people. I see this as being very important, especially in the business world. My favorite two things to write are probably short stories and letters. I like them because they seem to be logical and have a practical use for me. I have a harder time writing things that I see as being pointless to me in my future.
