Jasmine
Expository
Writing
How I Feel About Being a
Writer
Through the recent years of writing in my English
classes, I have realized many things about my writing. I do not like writing
because I feel intimidated from other students. I usually get average grades
when writing essays. However, I usually don't get A+'s
on my essays. I like to express my thoughts by writing, and I like to write
freely. But my attitude toward assigned work is bad because I feel that I am
being confined and can not express my true emotions on what I would really like
to say.
I do not view myself as a writer. I mentioned before that
I can express my emotions and feelings very well. In school, it is very
difficult for me to become detailed in something that I am not interested in. I
do not consider myself a writer because I feel that a writer should be well
rounded in all types of writing. Not just in one type. If a writer can expand
and become detailed about something that they don't care about, I would
consider them a writer. However, in my perspective, I do not think of myself as
a writer.
My best work in school has been my most recent. I had to
write a sociology paper as a midterm. My strength is basically if I like what I
am learning and writing about, I can write a long and interesting research
paper or any other type of work. I was very much interested in the research
paper I wrote. It was to determine if heavy metal music encourages suicidal
tendencies. Since this was something that I wanted to learn about, I researched
and found the information I needed and wrote an excellent paper and I received
a good grade.
My most difficult work was in my US History class. In
this work for my US History class, I do not think that I put all of my effort
into it. I do not think that I knew all of the information that was required to
know in order to write the paper. So the essay ended up to be very skimpy and
short. I have many weaknesses in writing. One of my weakness's is not getting detailed in something I am
not interested in. Another weakness I have is vocabulary. I try to include new
vocabulary in my work, but I usually find out that I did not have the right
meaning in the sentence. This semester, I hope to improve on these things in
this course.
I chose to take expository writing because my last
English teacher suggested it to me. She said that it would be good course for
be because it would help me improve on my vocabulary and that the course will
help me write essays for college. This is very important to me because I would
like to get into a good college and my junior year is very important to me and
I would like a lot of practice with vocabulary for the SATs, and I would like
improvement on my writing for my college essay. My expectation of this course
is to be able to expand and become more detailed in my work. I hope that I will
be able to improve with my vocabulary.