My Writing Experience Essay

Why did I not recognize writing will be all around us no matter what professional job you pursue in life? When I was growing up throughout my years from grade school to high school, teachers constantly preached that writing is a crucial part of the learning experience. I was once told by my eighth grade teacher Mrs. Herrera that, “writing makes the gears in your brain begin to rotate with one another”. I wished I knew how important that metaphor would be now in my life but I didn’t until I was an adult. Therefore, I never took into consideration that writing would play such a big role in my life after my completion of learning before the military. Until the impact writing had on a legal event in my career, and currently the impact of what

I never actually took writing seriously and more so just went to the classes just for attendance, so that I would not get a repercussion for non-attendance. When I did attend class I would just sit there and my main focus was not learning, but just finding out the assignment and tasks given at that current time. After reading the “Driver’s Seat” I find that test taking and writing can relate to one another, “The larger social truth Luke was touching on, that being good at passing tests has relatively little to do with being good at what those tests are supposed to be testing” (Gopnik, 2015, para. 6). I believe writing can be relatively easy; until you take into consideration all the rules that come into writing. Once you start to add punctuation, sentence fragments, and many other policies; writing becomes that much more difficult. My writing experience has consisted of writing to just pass the “tests” and not actually going further in depth to learn the rules. I have not learned to write and in sense have been haunted when it comes to writing for the fear of failure. Like my teacher Mrs. Herrera said “writing makes the gears in your brain begin to rotate with one another”. If I had taken what she was trying to tell and teach me, I could have easily known that once I begin to start writing and using the proper components of the “gear”, writing would all