I Am Not a Good Writer

I am not good writer

If you ask me that am I a good writer, I will answer you that I am not a good writer. However, I am trying to be a good writer. This is the voice hidden deeply in the bottom of my heart.

A good writer means that he or she has good writing. Good writing has six factors. First, idea that is interesting and important. Second, organization that is logical and effective. Third, voice that is individual and appropriate. Fourth, word choice that is specific and memorable. Fifth, sentence fluency that is smooth and expressive. Sixth, conventions that is correct and communicative. However, my compositions always cannot achieve those factors perfectly. Therefore, I am not as good writer as I want to be.

There are a few reasons to explain that I am not as good as I would like to be. First of all, in my family background, my parents have not accepted high education. I did not see people writing at home. Although my parents respect and value the ability to write, they are not good writers and they don’t like

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writing. Hence, it makes me don’t like writing too. Also, my mum and dad always argue at home. It disturbs me to write a good composition. Writing needs a quiet environment .However, I cannot concentrate on writing at home. I usually get stuck when I writing a paper at home. I try generating several descriptions or statements, but nothing I write seems to work.

Moreover, in my school experience, I don’t meet many good writing teachers. My high school isn’t preparing me with writing skills.I enter college with sub-par writing skills because of inadequate writing instruction in my high school courses. Teachers simply don’t have enough time to leave adequate feedback on lengthy student papers when they have 120 or more students in their courses. Another problem is that my high school simply doesn’t focus on writing instruction. School is often so caught up in boosting scores in skills that are important in public exams like math, science, and reading, that writing simply falls by the wayside. As English is not our native language, we do not always have English writing at school . English writing becomes my weakest subject. My English teachers haven’t given me an “A” on any essay. I felt really depressed as sometimes I have tried my best to do it. There were many

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classmates who had creative writing and they impressed teachers and peers. I

thought that maybe I am a loser who are too stupid to write good essays.

Furthermore, social influences affect me a lot. My school friends don’t like to write. They love reading, but hate writing. Hence, we choose to read instead