Expository Writing 9

Ms. Gokturk

As a junior in High School, I feel that my writing is getting better every time I write a paper for any of my subjects. I feel that with every mistake and every paragraph my papers that I am handing in to my teachers are more grown up and a lot deeper into the topic.

Throughout all my writings that I have handed into my teachers, I have noticed many things. One thing that I have noticed is that I have many weaknesses when it comes to writing. Many of my weaknesses are coming up with a topic sentence, supporting my thesis, and actually finding a way to express myself without using "I". I have many weaknesses that I have noticed, but I also have much strength when it comes to my writing. I have strength when it comes to expressing my feelings emotionally, I also have strength when it comes to free writing.

As a writer, I view myself as someone that has much strength as well as many weaknesses. I feel that I am a good writer, but I know that I can do a lot better. I feel that my best pieces of literature, are when I am able to write about my feelings toward something that has really happened. My best piece of writing I think was when I wrote about my parent’s divorce. By writing about my parent’s divorce, it actually helped me realize that they weren’t meant to be and it wasn’t my fault that they got divorced. Another piece of work that I thought was the best I ever wrote, was about my friends that died in the September 11^th attacks. Peter and Tommy were brothers that were really close. Tommy was with the Emergency Service Unit, and Peter was with the FDNY. Both men were called to the Twin Towers on that awful day and gave their lives to save others. In this paper that I wrote, I described many things. I described their funeral and how they had a fly over by a helicopter, I described how the school children across the street from the church were hanging out the windows with signs saying "we will never forget our heroes." And I also described how there were so many firefighters there that didn’t even belong to the FDNY. I described it as a sea of never ending blue lining up and down the street. This paper let me describe myself as a very emotional person and a person that is very in touch with her friends and family.

Hopefully by taking this expository class, it will teach me to become a better writer, and help me out with many things in my writing that I struggle with. By the end of this semester I feel that I will be a much more mature writer and someone that will grow even more because of how my writing has developed.