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The Importance Of Writing In High School
During this semester I was able to realize that there is not such a thing as a bad writer. In order to progress in something, we need to develop our work. As a freshmen college student, writing is not my strength but my weakness. Fortunately, everything changed as I enter English 1005A. In this class, I was assigned different reading that had different subjects. In each reading, I was able to learn something new. From gentrification in America to feminism.
Having in mind that reading is not something that I like to do often because I find it boring, especially if is school related. In this class, I was able to actually enjoy the readings. One of my favorites was “I JUST WANNA BE AVERAGE” by Mike Rose. As I was reading this assignment I actually connected with him. I was not born in the U.S. and I also was put in a lower class in high school. I also have a teacher that help me thru high school by supporting me and believing in me.
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The strengths that I develop along the way are probably a few, but I know that my level of writing change. The way I use to write in high school was way below average, and I would like to say that my level as of right now is average.
Honestly, there were a lot of challenges in this semester. I was absent a few times and this puts my grade in danger. I could of just give up a long time ago, but Professor Solis decided to give me another

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