Essay On Ender's Game

Fast-forwarding about five years, I was in my sixth grade English class and we were starting a writing project. The assignment was to form a poem that encompassed something important and significant in you life. At the time, my baby cousin had just been born, and what was significant about his birth was that it was on the same day as mine. So for the assignment, I decided I was going to make a poem that was all about my baby cousin and I. I ended up getting an A on the assignment, awarded the best poem out of our entire class, and got my poem published in a poetry book that I still have today. As a sixth grader, getting my poem published was a big deal for my self-confidence in my writing. The assignment itself was the first time in my young

Descriptive writing became a normal way of writing when it came to being in high school. Weather it was a five page paper for English, writing an analysis for chemistry, or giving a comparison of what you saw in biology, it all formed around writing. During my freshman year, we had to read Ender’s Game and then write a four-page paper answering a list of numerous questions that she provided for us. During the process of writing the paper, she introduced things like citations, quotations, and formatting a paper the right way using MLA format. This was the point in my life where I was really introduced to Purdue Owl, MLA formatting, and APA formatting. APA wasn’t really used until later in high school, but she still wanted us to know some of the basics that APA requires. One thing that I saw back then that I continue to see today is the MLA formatting. In my W290 English class this spring semester, we have talked about some of the same aspects concerning the correct way to use MLA formatting that I remember being introduced to me my freshman year of high school. Simple things like page numbers at the top right corner of the page or alphabetizing your sources that you cited. These types of things that your introduced to at a pretty young age have and will always be reinforced because it is important for us to know it and know it