English Thalia Oyen 28, November, 2011 English 1101-012

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Writing is the hardest course for me in school. Writing always creates a sense of insecurity in me because I will always expect a horrible response from critics.Everyone has freight and mine is the response a reader will give to my writing. Writing has never been an attribute for me in school by my insecure writing. Such insecurities cause me to recheck, rearrange, and respell my entire writing until I find it complete and correct. There has been many times in which I write a paper and reread my writing it, the next day to see if it sounds any different, and if any changes can be done. The way I write Mmany people call my writing confusing or misarranged, but what I find suitable in a sentence others might find it complex. The main problem I have when I write is that I write how I talk. I imagine Im talking to someone and the way I say it is less confusing compared to when its written down. I enjoy English classes very much because it gives me new skills that will help me in the long run. The skills people have when they write can be very different but influential to others.Writing has the purpose of expressing the writer;s thoughts and information without confusing, characterizing a person with great writing skills. Writing has always individualized people a person with their uniqueness and is used as an opening to opinions. I really enjoy writing when it is used to analyze text by asking questions or revealing facts to others from a novel or article. I can never say an English course has brought a bad experience to me, when in reality it reveals others opinions, thoughts and imaginationEnglish has never brought to me a negative experience when it reality it has
Comment [Thalia :)1]: I tried to make a connection with the reader and explaining my purpose and thoughts of writing and how I used to think it was an insecurity.

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strengthen my writing skills and created an open-mindedness to others opinions, toughts and imagination. Allowing readers to think and think differently about a certain topic. It opens a form of freedom of thoughts onto a piece of paper. An English course allows me to comprehend the thoughts of others and the different composing formats individuals have. It opens a form of freedom of thoughts onto a piece of paper. Reading opens reveals another world of imagination to me. When I read stories they that have have complexities and themesthemes and climatic events that blow my mind because they would have events that I would have never imagined fascinate me. Reading really shows me that everyone does not think the same way and everyone is open to their own opinion. Reading also allows me to understand to and become informedmore informed about with facts, fiction and opinions. It allows me expand my thoughts of things I believed in or learn more aboutEnglish in general expands my train of thoughts and opens in to another world of learning with opinion and learning. For example, in High SchoolIn High School, for example, I was very interested in the history of Voodoo and in an English Iassignment I was allowed to research and analyze the history of Vvoodoo. and the considerThen consideration if it should or should not be considered as a religion. I was able to learn I learned so much about Vvoodoo and and personal experiences many people had, by reading positive and negative opinion of voodoo voodoopeople had and, its history and beliefs. Creating an outline or setup of my information helps me a lot when writing a paper.Creating an outline or structuring my information helps me by giving me a step by step process in writing my information in a cohesive structure. When I createcreating an outline the writer I know what exactlyknows exactly to write about compared to writing from the top of my
Comment [Thalia :)4]: Deleted because its rephrased into the second sentence with more information. Comment [Thalia :)3]: I moved this sentence to the end of the paragraph because it sums up the effect of the two sentences mentioned before. Comment [Thalia :)2]: I think this sounds more formal and straight to the point compared to the other sentence I had which sounded very unformal.

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head, which creates confusing and forgetfulness of valuable information. A writing outline creates a structure in writing which I enjoy because I will know what to write about next and my information will be sorted. I also like to set Setting most of mythe information in bullets before I write an essaywriting an essay is very helpful because of you a list of quick information you can use that can be very helpful in settling a new trail to a sour of short or long information.. Setting up the basic information bullets first sets free all types of information of the topics that is in mind. After having the list you can group the bullets into paragraphs and create a structure by ordering them to create a basic foundation of the essay. It sets a basic form of information in which from there will go into more detailing and examples that will create the essay. opens my mind up to different details and example of the topic. Bullets are also quick way to set out information of what every is in my mind and at the end I just chose what information I want to use and set up the way I write to write the information down . I have had many Many teachers have helped me in my arrangement of words and finding a way to format my information to certain topics.and in formatting information to specific topicsIve experienced reading many novels and movies and creating an analysis of them explain their meaning and detailing it source and why the things that happened. We have read many book and had many reading and movie analysis. The thing I least like about English is that it is not very structuredWhat I least like about English is its nonexistent structure which causes confusion and difficulties with English . English doesnt have a correct response at the end like a math problem.English dosent have a final product as a Math problem that is constant compared to English in which many people have different thoughts an opinions that can take a topic into a negative or positive theme. In English You have to detailing, explaining and proveproving a point are the essential necessities a point
Comment [Thalia :)7]: Eliminated this paragraph because I thought the paragraph above states the same information with more detail and structure without confusion. Comment [Thalia :)8]: Tried to take myself off the picture Essay. Comment [Thalia :)5]: I deleted this sentence because I thought I repeated what I wrote in the first sentence of this paragraph.

Comment [Thalia :)6]: I thought it would be best if I took I out a explained a of example of the usage of bullets.

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in the writing with correct information and grammargrammatics. English does have the effect of changing the thoughts of a person to an specific topic if the discussion. Writing can always affect a person thought. English is mainly mostly opinionated causing it to not have a final structured answer that can be proven. You have to read an article and try to understand a writer thought or go against them.The article has to be read and the topic can be acknowledged or not depending in whats is said and how its said. I have received many different topics to write about from many teachers so they can get a better understanding of how I write, and what I like to write about.Many of my teachers have given many different topics to write about to get a better understanding of whats my best attribute in writing and to know what I like to write about. When reading many teachers have told me that I have an interest in thriller and fantasy themed. I enjoy reading but when it has suspense and thriller Im interested even more in the topic. Many teachers have told me that they have found that I have an intense interest in reading about thriller and suspense. That I would be more intrigued into reading one of those topics compared to a romantic or historic novel. I do believe reading and writing are two very essential tools for a personReading and writing are two essential tools needed for success. When a person can read a paper its good but when a person can read, analyze and critic a paper is even better. Reading isHaving the ability to red is beneficial because it gives the abilityimportant because it gives a person the ability to understand others and open up an imagination and a discussion. Being able to write Writing also is very important because if you can write its good but if you can describe, detail and create a story with in your writing thats even better, Writing can be very influential to other people and even life changing!. When a person can right write there, their words can become
Comment [Thalia :)10]: I thought that placing an exclamation point it would have a greater meaning and impact Comment [Thalia :)9]: Tried to make it more formal and less confusing /

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strong and breathstrong, breath taking and influential to others compared to a person whose writing is simple and not detailed. Reading and writing also gives me thegives the ability to show my abilities and opinions. That is why I enjoy learning how to reading and writing so much. Out of this writing course I will gain I believe from this class I will gain a lot of writing skills and the ability to express my opinions and thoughts on a paper. To be able to correctly arrange my words so they wont be as confusing as they used to be. Writing and readingReading and Writing will allow to open up my imagination and opinion on paper for others to understand or critic. The thing I really appreciate of this class it that we will be allowed to choose the topic of our chose with assignments. Use as students will be able to discussAs students we will be able to discuss a topic of our choice that we enjoy to discuss about compare about a topic of our choice showing what a student enjoys most about and can discuss about compared to just giving one topic to everyone, in which some student might find easy because they would have a connections while others find it complex because they have no understanding of the topicbecause of of having a good connection or understanding of the topic. I A small English class is a lot better than a larger class because the teacher would get a better understanding of how the students writes and what he or he should work on compared to if it was a larger class the teacher would confuse the students and their writing skills while the students will have difficulties meeting up with the teacher and find help with the paper. . I also enjoy the size of the class because a small class for an English class is really good because it will give me a chance to get one on one help from the teacher and I wont be another student compared to other classes, and English is the class I need the most help with.
Comment [Thalia :)11]: Took myself out the picture:.