Thursday, September 5, 2013

Writing all about me (get it)

To get right to the point. I am not the best writer and believe I have a more limited vocabulary than most. Although English is my first language, I rarely use full proper English outside of school (writing and speaking). For example it is mostly me pronouncing or spelling every other word wrong. It isn't because I don't know how to pronounce and write them, it just feels more relaxed. I never read unless I am required to, because I read very slow. When I read I can maybe get two sentences read before my mind wanders somewhere else. Either that, or I read an entire article and know all the words I am reading, but when I am done I realize that I didn't retain a single word and have to start over. On papers I always use Word so I can use the synonyms button on most of my adjectives and it helps me revise the sentences in a smarter way. What I have said so far seems like I am doing a lot of self bashing and looking for a compliment, but I know I am smart and can write good enough in the full IB program. However, a compliment would be cool too.  I absolutely hate seeing those red and green squiggly lines under the words and have to fix them immediately. I can talk normally and carry a conversation beautifully, but when I write it takes awhile to reach that acceptable point. The weird thing is, I am better on writing finals than speaking. Punctuation is most likely my best area of writing, even though I tend to use comma's a lot. If I didn't have Spell Check I wouldn't be able to spell a lot of words correctly. My favorite font would have to be Gothic anything (like the letters in the books at the beginning of Shrek movies).  My favorite two words are GOLF WANG! Kasden Watson introduced me to the rapper, Tyler, The Creator over the summer and he has been my favorite artist ever since. Tyler is extremely smart with words and I think he is a genius. I just realized that this blog is very unorganized, but I don't know the rules to blogging so I will assume I am fine. I apologize to the reader for this, because it might be difficult to read when I jump all around the place. Past years with writing have been fine and good so far. I usually always try to put a little hint of humor in my writings no matter how serious the paper is. In fact, my NHS letter was all about me making fun of my father and I still made it in. Unfortunately I have been kicked from NHS, because I need to work on my time management skills. I have tried taking away all my electronics and my mind still ends up wandering somewhere else besides on homework. This year, the most sleep I have had in one night is two hours so far, but tonight I am actually mostly on top of things. That last sentence seems bad, but I think I am the kind of person who doesn't need that much sleep to function. I know more sleep is always better. For my EE I really want my question to be, "does fate exist?" but I don't know if that will work or not. I haven't done much research on it yet, but this is the first time I have ever been slightly excited about writing a paper. Overall, 11th grade and this year has and will help me a ton with writing. I have already grown so much better from the regular classes I was taking sophmore year. I hope my first blog doesn't suck. Oh one last note, I am terrible at citations.

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