Summary

            When I was a young child, I was put in the remedial reading class. It wasn’t long, however, until I became a formidible reader, and started reading anything I could get my hands on. Some of the books I read were about addiction, illness and death, some might say that a young child had no business reading about such serious topics, but I was ready to be an adult, I was going to expand my mind as quickly I could.

            Writing begins with reading. In order to become a good writer, it is important to observe the practices of other writers. When learning a language, reading and comprehension comes before speaking and writing, and I believe it is the same in your native tongue. As sloughed my way through school, I feel that my writing was often forced and constrained by the five paragraph essay format, boring topics, and strict scientific guidelines. In school I gravitated towards science topics, so I became a strong technical writer. As I have journeyed through my writing classes in college, I have widely expanded my knowledge of writing, rhetoric, and presentation.

            I believe that writing is an expression that people create for the absent receiver. As a writer, it is sometimes hard for me to gauge my audience, and with the publicity that the internet pushes, I have learned to write both for my expected audience, and the potential reciever who may create a different co-composed understanding of my writing. Writing is iterable, and that is part of what makes it so interesting to me.