My History with Writing

            Well my experience with writing, like most other people, started in elementary school where I actually learned to write.  But it wasn’t really until high school that I actually started to know what I was doing.  Most of the writing that I have ever done was definitely done within those extremely long four years.  However, I was taught to write in numerous different forms each year.   For instance my sophomore year we were told to focus on all the abstract details of a novel or play and to write about what the author must have wanted his or her readers to think about certain characters and ideas.  But then, in eleventh grade all of the writing techniques I had learned the previous year were practically thrown out the window! Now, instead of focusing on symbols and themes like before, the focus was on the actual style of the writer and how they use rhetoric and strategies to affect the thoughts of their readers.  So, I began to completely rearrange my annotating skills and began looking for logical fallacies instead of symbols and tone instead of theme.  And then, based off of these findings I was required to use different writing styles such as argumentative or synthetic.  Well, that was until my senior year when all of my papers were of course required to be just like they were my sophomore year.  So then I went back to my meaning searches, but remarkably my papers turned out a lot different than those from my sophomore year. And I really owe a lot of thanks to my AP literature teacher for that because was the one who taught me how to come up with themes and organize a paper without following the same old pattern every time.  So I have to say that though my writing experience has really only come from the past four years, I really do feel that I have had the chance to experiment with all different types of writing.