Term Papers on My Writing

Term Paper Title	My Writing
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My Writing

     My writing has always been kind of a surprise to me.  I am never quite sure what I am going to come up with.  Most of the time I am aware of the subject matter, have an idea of how to approach it, and know what format I will use.  It is in the getting started phase that I have the most difficulty.   I spend a lot of time stressing about what I am assigned to write.  I believe that this stems from the fact that I am always writing for an academic purpose.  I am trying to impress the reader (usually a professor) in the hopes of achieving  the best grade possible.  The surprise comes in the ease in which I find myself writing when I just get right down to it. This has not always been the case.
     As I look through the report cards from my early educational days, (kindergarten through sixth grade) I am aware of the fact that I had an over-average knack for punctuation and penmanship, as well as spelling.  This is very disturbing for me because I realize that I have lost this ability somewhere along the road of life.  I received higher than average scores in all of my academic studies as a young child.  The disturbing part is that I seemed to do so in a nonchalant manner.  Maybe most young children do not feel the stress of acceptance or achievement that we feel as adolescents or adults.  I do remember that I was graded on the sole basis of punctuation and spelling.  This fact today would stress me into a catatonic state.
     In middle school I found that the requirements had changed to include style and form.  This in itself was not stressful even though it added a new dimension to my writing.  I do not know if the teachers I had at this time were particularly lax in the area of grammar and were primarily concerned with content, or if I had come to terms with my grammatical abilities and simply did not register stress about them.  I do know that I was taught the essentials of poetry (which I had no knack for) and the knowledge of the importance of literature in our existence.  I believe that I was given freedom of expression in my writing.  These were happy years for me scholastically.
     High school held a different perspective for me in my writing experience.  I found that for the most part I could write to please my professors by conforming to what they expected  my opinion to be.  After spending some time with these people, I could easily assess their expectations and could covey their views on certain subjects in my own words to satisfy those expectations.   The times that I wrote what I thought they wanted to hear, instead
of what I wanted to say, I did well.
     This did not hold true to one facet of my writing experience.  I had to do a number of research papers.  These I found most difficult at first because of the fact that I had no prior knowledge of how to do these stressful assignments.  An introduction to this type of writing would have been greatly appreciated.
     The professors that I had at this time were grading on punctuation, spelling (I would have cut off body parts for Spell-Check),  grammar, and content.  Well, I found this to be quite unfair.  Weren't these people supposed to teach me these things before grading me on my ability to do them?  I approached these projects with a chip on my shoulder from the very start.  I remember a  paper that I had to do for U.S. History that I found so difficult that I almost gave up.  It was a paper on one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  We were not allowed to pick our own signer.  We had a drawing to determine the subject.
     I found out that I had to research Thomas Jefferson.  This was the luck of the draw because he was the easiest to research.   Unfortunately, the Internet was not an option in the 1970's.  Encyclopedias were the researcher's choice...

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