What Kind of Writer Are You Essay

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Essay #1 Prompt - “What Kind of Writer Are You?” Now that you have spent some time studying the importance of academic writing, how to be a good academic writer, and reading about writing and discussing how writing affects our lives, you can better understand that writing is a crucial part of being a college student. To a student in an academic writing course, writing can be an experience that could only be described as challenging as she struggles to define success. Through it all, the important part of writing is thinking critically and communicating effectively.

Assignment: For this essay, answer the question, “What Kind of Writer Are You?” In your own answer, analyze and describe your experiences with writing and incorporate at least two ideas from the essays we have read together in class. You might not have thought about this question before, nor about your own process of writing, but now you have the chance to do so and tell your audience about it. For some of you, writing has not been a part of your life until now that you are in college, so you can describe this new experience and your relationship with your writing. For others, writing has been a part of your life before, but you wrote in another language. Your analysis can include how you write in English and how this process might differ from writing in your native language. You can also use the sources we read in class to describe how you might use some of the author’s suggestions to become a stronger academic writer or how in the past you thought some of the writing myths were true or did not use their suggestions.


Questions to consider when you explore own writing experience:

? Why do you write?

? Why don’t you write?

? What are some of your writing “successes’?

? What have been some of your negative writing experiences?

? What attractions do words, language and written communication hold for you—or not?

? What changes have you experienced in your interest or disinterest in writing in recent years? 

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Kind of Writer I Am
Introduction
Writing is for amateurs, which did not give up and became professionals. I am an
amateur when it comes to writing, but my plan does not include me quitting. My eyes are set on
becoming a professional. I don’t want to be a living testimony of Maya Angelou’s words of
living with the greatest agony of an untold story in me.
In fact, the problem of writing in high school has always existed. At that time, as a nonprofessional writer, I would often practice my skills, but relatively speaking high school is much
easier. So it was more like an “amateur”. When I went to college, the process of writing always
made me anxious as I did not know how to start or how to even go about it after I started.
Sometimes the college will give me a kind of fear, this fear reminds me all the time, I must get a
high score, and I must get a good score. If I didn’t write a good essay and I didn’t get a good
grade, that’s why it becomes my anxiety. Also in college, there are many excellent people, it can
also be stressful, but I believe it is a challenge to become a better writer.
However, I come from a family that believes in seeking discomfort. I spared time to go to
the library and read widely. I also read other materials, including magazines, newspapers, among
other materials that told a story. It is from them that I learned how to identify ideas, research and

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organize materials that I will use for my writing. The reasons for writing, the successes from
writing, negative experiences encountered during writing, attractions from words, language, and
written communication have on me as well as experienced changes that in terms of writing
interests and disinterests in recent years will be analyzed.
Reasons for writing
The need to organize my thoughts represents one of the primary reasons why I write.
Most of the time, a person may be overwhelmed by the event they are writing about or the
occurrences in their environment. As a result, they are unable to express and communicate with
others. To avoid being carried away by such events, I write down my thoughts and experiences,
which allows me to follow them. By writing them down, I can identify areas that lack coherence
where ideas are missing and need to be added (Irvin, 2010). That way, I make the necessary
corrections to my writing, allowing me to be consistent and coherent. That way, I make valid
arguments as I can make ideas follow each other according to a given event.
Secondly, I engage in writing as it helps to overcome stress and other issues that may be a
burden to me. I perceive writing as a process of transferring thoughts, pains, and negative
experiences from being non-existent to existent (Reid, 2011). For example, when undergoing
various challenges, I find myself writing them down, and it is from such an activity that I get to
identify different perspectives surrounding them — that way, allowing me to identify solutions to
the problem under analysis.
Lastly, I write to hone my writing skills. It has always been my belief that everybody has
a story to tell. I hope that one day I will tell mine by writing a book. The fact that I aspire to
write a book in the future challenges me to strive to become the best writer which can only be

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through practice. Therefore, my love for writing is driven by the aspirations that one day tells my
story in a book.
My writing successes
One of my significant successes in writing in adopting the writing process, which offers
me an opportunity to prepare to write an essay to completion. In the past, I always thought to
myself that writing is a tedious process. I had resigned myself and accepted that I would only
write when I cannot avoid it. Family and close friends came to learn about it, and they
encouraged me to try writing and see that I will get better at it. I started going to the library. The
environment itself left me with the only option of reading many books that were there (Reid,
2011). Reading these books allowed me to identify stories. It is after identifying such stories that
I developed the desire to identify specific stories and follow them to the end. That experience
allowed me to n...


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