Writing

Writing has never been a great passion of mine, I was not born in America I was born in a small town in Southern Germany. I came here when I was seven years old at the beginning of second grade. I was learning a whole new language and how to read and when finally I had accomplished that it seemed that I had missed all the basics of grammar and writing. I don't remember covering anything else on grammar and punctuation for the rest of my elementary school career. when starting middle school I noticed I was having trouble when doing papers, I never knew the right spot for a comma or when my sentences where to long. In High school the only time we talked about the importance of grammar was just the week before midterms or finals. Ive always had trouble weaving my papers so that it all flows together into one. my teachers always criticized me on my writing how I missed an Introduction paragraph and that my paragraphs never flowed together so that they make sense. This is hard since they never showed us how to make it flow and to improve our writing skills. It feels like I haven't improved on my writing skills at all during my high school career and that I am behind others. When reading others papers I feel that my writing is horrible compared to theirs, them using all these big terms and me just using simple words. Sometimes I dread going to english classes because we have to do all this writing. but throughout the years I have become somewhat used to my writing style as my own and not anyone elses.

Cindy