In high school I wasn’t a great writer, but I wasn’t
bad. In retrospect I realized I had a
natural ability to write, but I was never really taught grammar well (the
teaching methods of the 1970s were horrible), and I have to admit I didn’t push
myself to do so. I certainly pushed
myself in the sciences and math, but I kind of somewhat looked down on
writing. Somehow I still got good enough
grades. But when I made it to college, the
acceptance criteria was upped a notch or two.
I wasn’t getting passed along. In
time I did learn to write, and hopefully I write a lot better than that
freshman twit.
I really got a kick out of this quote I just came across:
I am returning this
otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
~English Professor
(Name Unknown), Ohio University
[Quote citation here.]
I too thought I wrote well in high school. I still love to write anyway, and especially to read good writing. It is like eating a delicious dessert -- it just goes down so easily! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a great way to put it. Great writing just knocks me off my feet. ;)
DeleteDo you remember typing paper?! Shows my age, huh. I guess they email their assignments in now?
ReplyDeleteDo they really email now? I think my first college paper was on a mechanical typewriter. Or maybe that was still high school, I can't remember now. It was a thrill to go to an electric typwriter at one point. Well somethings have gotten better. Word processing is a great invention. I remember trying to correct with white out. What a disaster.
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