Blog #1 Comp II

Most of the time my relationship with writing has been forced. The first writing that I did was with a pen and a paper in preschool. I was not a very good example of writing but it was still my first. I never much liked anything to do with writing. I especially do not like writing anything out by hand. I have poor penmanship and not the greatest spelling, so you can see why I do not like writing by hand. Whenever I was given the option in classes to either write out a paper or type it, I always chose to type it. Every paper that I have been giving the choice on I have typed. I have become a pretty sufficient typist.

Writing has never been one of my strong suits. Whenever I go to write anything it seems to take me a long time to formulate my sentences and the whole paper. I have trouble spelling words. That has always been a problem and it has not gotten much better of years of practicing. Typing on a computer with spell check helps a great deal. My grades would have been substantially less if it were not for spell check. I had troubles with correct punctuation markings in the past, but Composition I helped with that. One of my strengths in writing is that once I get an idea, and have the layout, for the most part, planed out I can type the paper rather quickly. I think that is the only strength that I have it writing.

In elementary school I was singled out as a child with reading, and writing difficulties. The instructor would have me do reading exercises both out loud and in my head and then give me quizzes of what I just read. I also did writing exercises. My reading improved a good deal from that but my writing exercises did not help my penmanship. In high school I hand one English class, it was required otherwise I think I might have not taken it. I did not try to hard in that class and got a low A. Last semester I took Composition I, this class was required and I know I would have taken even if it was not. I need help with writing college level papers for future classes. I tried hard in that class and came out with a B. I liked all of my English teachers. I have not yet found an English teach that I did not like.

I am taking this class to help my writing abilities. I hope this class creates better writing habits and reinforces good writing habits I already have. I want to be able to write quality papers for my engineering classes in the future. I want to learn better researching techniques, where to do to get information, what pieces of information I should use and which pieces to not use. I would also like to learn how to length my papers out and add more descriptive words.