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Lamya Hanafy

FIQWS 10027Tues-Thurs

September 2, 2009

My Experience as a Writer

Throughout both my educational and personal life-time writing has been an

essential tool in achieving success. Weather its for writing a ten page research paper for

my English class or simply writing a letter to a family member in which I needed to keep

in touch, developing the ability to write well was required. I was not always a fan of

writing and tried to avoid it all costs but throughout my educational career I was forced to

encounter it and ultimately began to find writing as a gateway for me to express my

thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

When I first entered intermediate school I had extremely poor writing

skills and resented writing very much. My sixth grade English teacher is one of the first

people to encourage me to write and ultimately drastically improved my writing skills.

While most of the students in my class felt she was over-working us for she constantly

assigned papers I, on the other hand, began to enjoy writing and felt that I was beginning

to express my thoughts in a more clear and adequate manor.

By the time I reached high school I felt that my basic writing skills were strong

yet I was still unable to write at a high level. I was then placed in advanced placement

English where you were required to comprehend content and deliver well written essays

proving you understood and could analyze the work of literature. While this was

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Extremely difficult at first I eventually took to it and slowly but surely I sharpened my

writing skills.

Due to the fact that I was now constantly writing papers for my English class I

began to find writing to be somewhat second nature for me and I was writing even when

it was not obligatory. I began to have a diary where I would express my daily thoughts

and emotions. While when I was younger I would never write an email to my family

members in Egypt due to its requirement of writing, I soon found myself emailing them

around once a week. I would even at times express my thoughts through poetry as a way

to relieve my stress and anxiety.

Now that I am entering college I do expect there to be new challenges that I must

overcome which will ultimately make me a better writer. I am anticipating the content of

the work which we are writing about to be more difficult to comprehend and the work to

be more challenging. I do however look forward to this process for I feel that the skill of

writing is one that will come into play throughout of my entire lifetime, weather its for

my academic career or future employment.

My development of writing grew slowly throughout my academic career where

my feelings towards writing soon went from resentment to indifference and ultimately

enjoyment. I hope to continue to build on my writing skills, for writing is a incredible

way for ones thoughts and ideas to not only be expressed but heard.

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