I am not the world's best writer, that's for sure! My mom would always proof read my papers and say, "you write like a 6th grader." Ha ha. I would much rather express my ideas in drawings, even though I can't draw very good either, I feel I will be graded less harshly with drawing. When I was a child, I did not write very often, I think that is why I am not a very good writer today. The kind of writing that I do now, is mostly in texting, Facebook, blogs, and emails. I wish that I kept a journal, but I just never have had the discipline to do it often.
The writing assignments that I had in school that I enjoyed the most were when we had free write or did reports on historical figures. I liked those types of writing the best because that is what interested me. The types of writing that I do not like is when I have to write about a topic that I am not interested in. When I am a teacher, I will give my students a subject to write on, but I will let them use their own ideas and topics to write about so it is interesting to them and they will want to continue to write throughout my class.
You wrote that all of the writing that you did was through texting, blogs, Facebook, and emails. These three types of texts all have one thing in common: they are all social opportunities for you to interact with other people. People tend to like writing more if it gives them authentic opportunities to communicate with people in their lives. When you are a teacher, it would be great if you could think of ways to let students write for real audiences, to exchange or share their writing, or to do other things to make the process more "social."
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