How I feel about being a writer
Expository writing was an optional class for junior year but in order for me to feel better about my writing skills I felt the need to take the class. Writing is a wonderful way to express yourself but organization, creativity, and practice makes it much easier. I started writing at an early age in my old private school Buckley. Writing was a very important skill there, starting at a very early age. Teachers enforced their students to keep up there writing ability. So I felt that this class would give me the closest experience to that.
Although I new coming into the course it would be difficult, I felt the need to challenge myself. My attitude toward writing in previous years has been receiving an assignment, getting anxiety on what and how to write it, than finally sitting down to write and begin to enjoy the creative aspect of it all. I have always felt that writing is a way to get out all of your feeling, and also a way to escape the world around you. It is a technique of expressing yourself, when other activities don’t seem to have the same effect. I have always felt that my writing on certain topics can come out really amazing and I will be really proud of it where as other topics I will get very upset and frustrated over. I assume that this happens to even the most experienced writers but it is hard to write about a topic you are not exactly most comfortable writing about. My guidance councilor had suggested this class because I felt I needed to improve on my writing skills, in order to feel more comfortable when the time comes to write my college essay. My problem with writing never came when a personal or life experience paper had been assigned. But more when I was to write about something I did not fully understand or enjoy.
Another problem I have when it comes to writing is the actual organization of the paper, where to put certain things, how to begin the introduction and other methods of how the paper should be laid out. This is the aspect of writing that I would really like to improve it. My expectations for this course are to expand my way of thinking when sitting down to write and also to improve my organization of writing and how to begin the introduction.
In conclusion I hope that this class meets all of the expectations that I was hoping for when I signed up for the class. I am willing to make all the time needed to make theses improvements because I feel that writing is one of the most important skills learned in high school. It is one that you need for your whole life. Not only to get into to college but in college and after as well. I am very much looking forward to have you as my teacher again, because I feel that I still use the writing techniques that you had taught me my freshman year.