In Class Prompt #1

          I'm terrified of reading. It is not the reading itself that makes me afraid, It is reading material and either being too slow to read along with others or reading and not comprehending it. Also I am afraid of writing. No matter how hard I tried throughout grade school and high school I never could seem to get good grades. Every paper I wrote always seemed to be marked in the red ink that made every student fringe when they saw it. I tried and tried to fix my mistakes working on punctuation and other grammatical prospects. Nothing had seemed to work. I know that you can always be better but it just flustered me knowing that I couldn’t get a perfect score on any of my papers. Ever since my experiences I never thought of myself as a good writer. I always thought that I was never good enough to get good grades in English class or even compare with other. I think I would be able to achieve self-efficacy if I would see better grades. I am willing to put in the time but I don’t like to waste my time. I find my time valuable and when I write for hours on end and it becomes a waste, just another paper to throw in the trash it frustrates me because I could be using that time to better myself in another field of study or be working and making a little extra cash for future use. I think though if I really put effort into it I can do good and get better grades and hopefully learn new tricks and obtain better habits of writing. This is important because being able to write and read is an essential to learning in today’s world. Without reading and writing people wouldn’t be creative and there wouldn’t be the inventions we have today. I would like to be able to fully embrace writing in the future and I would definitely like to better my writing habits over the course of this semester. It would be very beneficiary to learn more, read more, and to write more in this class. They say that with practice come perfections, so I tend to practice the most I can to be the best I can.