Personal Narrative: My Career As A Writer

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There are a lot of learning experiences in my academic career that have helped shape me to become the type of writer I am today. In school I always excelled in English and writing even from a young age I loved to read and write, I was very good at spelling and vocabulary and I was reading two or three books a day. I gained these skills from a young age because of my educational background and the help of my teachers at a very young age. My first grade teacher Mrs’ Divers would teach me the proper use of grammar and vocabulary, and how to read and write. Because of Mrs’ Diver’s I excelled at writing during my school years. I loved to write stories in the class when I was young with all the background knowledge of English and writing I had received …show more content…
Mrs’ Diver’s lessons shaped me to form an interest in English and Writing, and because of her lessons I had almost made it into the spelling in 4th Grade. Mr’s Divers lessons had really helped me and shaped me to become the type of writer I am today. And had she not had educated me about Writing, Spelling, and Reading, I would be not be as confident in my English Skills as I am today. I would lack the knowledge of Writing and Reading and could not create a proper writing piece without the aid of Mrs’ Diver’s lessons and knowledge.

By the time I reached High School I had recognized my writing skills weren’t as advanced as I had thought. I was excelling in English, but my writing wasn’t as advanced as I had thought. In High School I was taught English by a man named Mr Flynn whose lessons on writing and english would

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