The Reality of Reading and Writing
Looking back on it today, I vividly remember sitting there upset because I was that one kid who really struggled when it came to reading. Although, I was good at writing. My whole 1st and 2nd grade I struggled bad, and it even set me back a grade. As the years went by, around 3rd grade I started to get better with writing and reading. This is because at my school we had a thing called “Author of the Year.” This gave kids all around the school the opportunity to draft a story and be picked. I never thought it would go anywhere, but it did. I ended up winning and it took a positive impact on me. I believed in myself when it came to writing and this led me to also winning the 4th grade one to. When it came to fifth grade, I was picked out of my whole class to submit a poem I was working on months before. I was so happy, it made me feel accomplished. This really helped me with my reading as well, I remember just sitting there for hour re-reading the poem in my head, I was so proud. When I was younger I really wanted to be a writer, but things changed.
Growing up after that, writing came past as easy, but reading not so much. I got to the point where I was so bad at reading, I was put into intensive classes. Even though I was not so good at reading, this did not stop me from writing. I absolutely loved writing argumentative essays; they were by far my favorite thing. It made me feel as if I had a voice that everyone heard, and it truly did make me happy. Not only that but I would love going though articles and finding my evidence. My whole life I was told to pick up a book and read it, but I couldn’t. I just was not interested.
After Middle school, things started to get so much better. It is crazy to me when I look back, as to how far I have grown from those days. Ive learned so much about reading and writing that I find it fun to accomplish. Starting in ninth, I felt like I was constantly reading when it came to things like murder mysteries, romances, and horror books. My writing only got better as well, right now I am at my highest point when it comes to writing. This is because, I have learned crazy amounts of knowledge when it comes to writing this year. This has every single little thing to do with ENC1101. At the beginning of the semester in ENC1101, actually I was doubting myself majorly. I didn’t understand the assignments, or the articles/stories I was reading. When I came to the test, I would get 0% on every single one of them, because I genuinely didn’t understand. I was even more afraid because I kind of did this by myself, I didn’t have any of my friends there to help me just me and my professor, who really helped me.
Half way in the semester of ENC1101, I noticed something I didn’t know before, and that was that I didn’t have self-confidence. Once I started to gain that in this specific class, I knew it was going to be a better year for me. I went from failing every single test to getting a 100% on all of them. Not only that but I started noticing the pattern I needed to use, and the word meaning of articles. I actually learned so much in this class, I would have never thought that I would have done this good. I learned how to develop academic habits, analyzing text and so much more. I even learned the importance of having the smallest details with in your stories, and the difference this can make. Learning how to us different media sites to post blogs and do research was a highlight to, speaking that we had to do research for each project. Before this class, I would have been given an assignment and told to write an 800–1,000-word paper on evaluating that, and I would have been absolutely confused on what I was even doing.
Now that I have basically finished taking the ENC1101 class, I could do it no problem. This class has made me feel so proud of myself because I did something that I thought I could never do. Now that I know that I can do it, and I’ve learned this much with it I feel like things will go by a little easier in the future. Also, now I know that dropping out isn’t an option because you might now know what to do then and there, but give it time and things might actually come to you. Just overall believing in yourself can help a lot.