My Past Writing Experiences.

I have done a lot of writing in my 12 years of schooling. I can say that I have gotten much better each year. I usually like to write my own poetry sometimes. I think that I am a very complex person and I really like to express my thoughts sometimes. However, I do not consider myself to be a creative writer . I’m used to very “militant” writing, structured , outlined writing and a very clear objective. This is the type of writing that I have been exposed to most as well as what I do best. I have written many papers in my academic career. In the 7th and 8th grade , I had an English teacher who I thank to this day. At the time I hated her because her methods were a little extreme ; however, I am the writer I am today because of her. In high school I had an English teacher who was just a joy to be around. She too was a big influence on my ability to articulate my ideas through words. I mostly have written write papers that analyze poems and books and people. I really like to write these papers because I get to use all of the rhetorical devices that I have learned. I did not know that there were so many rhetorical devices that one could use to analyze a paper. The biggest paper that I have ever done was a 16 page paper where I had to propose an issue and argue my point for or against it. I thought that this was going to be a really hard paper but it turned out that I could not stop talking and I actually had too much to say and I had to cut the paper down some. I got an excellent grade on the paper and much praise from the teacher. I realized that I could do a large paper and do it well. Im ready for anything now!