Literacy Autobiography

The earliest writing memory I carry is in second grade. Around Halloween time we were in the second grade for about two months when we were given an assignment to create/ color, cut out a pumpkin and write a short story on it. These short paragraphs that were created by my class were then placed on the board outside of the classroom so that when parents came to the Halloween party they would be able to read them. These paragraphs were short choppy sentences with misspelled words, incorrect punctuation, and fragments.

Throughout my childhood I kept a diary, which only contained personal information. Having a diary helped me with writing because I would ask my grandmother how to spell certain words and would go back and correct sentences just in case someone else read my diary. My writing changed though out my years mostly because of different writing topics and dedicated teachers. Having different topics in high school was tough, not only were they new, but I found it difficult to follow rules and stay on topic. Since the school I attended was in a town of a population of 1,200 my class was only 34 students. The teachers had a lot of time to devote to each student individually. Giving me good direction and freedom.

Patterns I’ve noticed in my writing is the style. I write most of my story’s with the same style which is past voice. I have trouble writing in detail and whenever papers have to be in great detail my grade usually suffers. Detail writing is complicated, as I write I forget to go into dept and then have to go back and edit the whole paper. This makes the paper take twice as long. I’ve been in college for 3 to 4 years now and in that time I’ve have one discouraging teacher. I was having trouble writing explications and she gave me the same information repeatedly instead of explaining in a different point of view. Teachers can be great people, but a great teacher is a teacher who is informal about each topic.

When I was younger I was not informed of all the types of writings. So I didn’t see English to its full potential. As of right now I enjoy writing and recently have changed my major to English so that someday I can teach students to love and understand writing as well. I’d want them to embrace writing, and understand that if they don’t like writing one paper they might like the next.