January 14 - 

Writing Timeline and 

Schooling Trajectory

Writing Timeline

           

          Looking over my time line, I can see that most of my writing skills are directly related to the teachings of my 7th and 8th grade english teacher. She was phenomenal at showing new writing styles and techniques in our reading and how to incorporate them into our writing. She was voted best teacher in the county my 8th grade year. I have not had any good writing teachers since her. I would describe myself as an average writer because of this. Ms. Cooper has definitely impacted the writer I am today.

        Everyone has a certain environment that they excel best in. I show my best work when I am in a small room with nothing to distract me. I get off topic very easily and this causes me to get work done at a slow pace. If I have nothing interesting to look at, I can be more effective with my writing and stay focused. I also like the temperature to be cool. I hate hot temperatures because it will cause me to sweat when I am trying to think. I also like not having time limits, because I feel to pressured to finish rather than write a good paper.

       I like to write fiction the most because it is the easiest to me. I like writing about action and adventure. Writing with no boundaries is true writing to me. It is hard for me to write when given strict rules to follow because it limits my creative ability. I do not like research papers because I have to stay within certain specified guidelines.

      I think based on my best teacher, I chose the genre above. I think this is true for most writers  writing is because of the inspirations of someone else. I have a short attention span so I have to write about interesting things but not be distracted by other interesting things. 

Schooling Trajectory

       In my path through school I have discovered that I am a much better mathematician than a writer. I would make A's in math and B's in english. This was because of the people I looked up to, and the people that taught me. It is also just who I am as a person. I like the literal meaning of things, not the symbolical. I like to view things in a logical and analytical fashion.

       My parents are very good at math and science. My father majored in math in college, and my mother majored in biomedical engineering. They pushed my math and science skills much harder than my writing skills because of this. I think this is why I am better at math than I am at english.

      My parents obviously influenced me based on my last paragraph, but I was also influenced by some of my teachers. My 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Wilcox is the one who introduced me to writing. She taught the basics to me on structure and what writing is. My 7th and 8th grade teacher Ms. Cooper was the best english teacher I had in school. I mentioned her in my writing timeline section. All of my high school teachers were not very good writing teachers. They taught more literature than writing all 4 years. The best teacher in the school taught AP and I was only in honors.

    I think my parents had the biggest influence on my Schooling trajectory. They pushed me in the areas they saw fit and that is why I am an excellent mathematician and an average writer. I also did not have the best teachers in high school and I kept to honors instead of AP.