How I Became a Good Writer
By: Cam Hall
Most people improve as writers over the course of their lives. Depending on the individual, it may take longer for this person to obtain better writing skills than others. A large number of people have become better writers through continued pratice over and over again. Everybody has become a better writer through one way or another, or by multiple ways, as well. I have improved as a writer overtime through aid, writing assignments, and my commitment to my writing.
Aid has allowed me to improve as a writer overtime, during my life. One important source of aid that I received was from my teachers. During my years of regular grade school, my teachers explained to me how to write research papers and essays in proper ways. These ways included using citations to cite where anyone took somebody else's information from and how to form my thesis statements. Another important source of aid that I received when I younger came from my family, mostly my mom. My mom would teach me how to spell words that I was unfamiliar with. In addition, she would proofread my writing to see if I made any mistakes and then point those mistakes out to me afterwards and then help me to fix them. The aid that I received from my teachers and my family have greatly helped me to improve as awriter, during my life time.
Writing assignments have allowed me to improve as a writer, during my life. One kind of writing assignment that helped me to improve as a writer was in the form of basic handwriting activities, back in elementary school. These activities required a student to write capital letters extending from the top of a line space to the bottom of a line space and have the lower case letters take up half of the space while touching the bottom of the line space. I was eventually able to write very neatly and professionally in these assignments. Another kind of writing assignment that helped me to improve as a writer was research papers and/or essays. These types of assignments usually taught me how to write properly at more challenging levels and in different forms. These assignments also had lots of requirements, as well. For example, these assignments required me a times to type on computers using double spacing and 12 sized text with the Times New Roman style font. In addition, I would be required to make several different paragraphs and statements all revolving around a thesis statement, and other things, as well. The writing assignments that I received back in grade school have helped me to become a better writer, during my life time.
My commitment to my writing has allowed me to improve as a writer overtime, during my life. One way that I have been loyal to my writing has been that I have hardly ignored and/or decided not to do my writing assignments at all. In doing this, I have allowed myself to experience different levels of writing, from easy to hard, and allowed myself to become familiar with them, so that way I can easily figure out what I want to do with other writing assignments that I will receive in the future during my college life, similar to the ones that were given to me back in regular grade school. Another way that I have been loyal to my writing has been that I have most often tried to fulfill all of the requirements that have been expected to have been carried out by myself on my writing assignments. I have been good with checking to make sure that I haven't missed anything that has been required of me on an essay and/or other kind of writing assignment. I have mostly been successful at doing this. My commitmeent to my writing has helped me to become a better writer, during my life time.
I have become a better writer as a whole over the course of my life through aid, writing assignments, and my commitment to my writing. However, despite my great skills that I have at writing, I can still improve in certain areas of the writing process, and such. One way that I can improve is to try not to wait till the last minute or the and/or the day before a writing assignment is due to start working on it. I tend to this most of the time, since I don't like to work on certain assignments several days before they are due,especially when I know that want to have free time to use up. Starting to prepare to write out the final draft of a writing assignment that I have, by making a rough draft of it, and such, a couple of days before it is due will allow me to have more time to fix mistakes and proofread my work so I can make it look a lot better for when it is due. Another way that I can improve as a writer is to try writing more in other formats and ways that I have not tried as much, so I can improve on them, as well. These other formats include cause and effect, using analogies, and other ones, as well. In doing this, I would be able to have a lot more experience as a writer. In conclusion, the more unfamiliar things to myself in the world of writing that I might try later on in my life, the better I know that I will become as a writer in my future life time.
No comments:
Post a Comment