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In one part of my “literacy narrative”, my experience with the writing, “ I think one of the problems is that I don’t like writing at all seems to never come out particularly well so in some sense I was discouraged.

I want to explain some more on why I don’t like writing but mostly English  in my case with handwritten work most of the time it doesn’t come out I gotta think so hard on what’s the purpose of the story or sometimes the main idea its just to hard to think and write at the same time . So I have so I continue to rewrite until I get something  but it’s mostly a blank piece of paper and random stuff I write cause it kills me to think about ideas on a story that makes no sense to me.

We get that sense  when people understand the motivation in  writing  the words that come  out of your own mouth can reach people’s mind because certain words are meaningful in life. But for me writing is painful and I do respect  all the  publishers work on writing famous books but in my case writing is backbreaking.

In one part of my “literacy narrative”, I talked about my experience with the writing, in particular the way I was taught script. Although I barely use it now, I find it to be a significant moment in time when trying to understand the role writing plays.

“ I think one of the problems that hindered me was my general lack of finesse when it comes to writing. Handwritten work seems to never come out particularly well so in some sense I was discouraged by it.”

I wanted to go more in detail when explaining my feelings about writing. In my case with handwritten work most of the time it doesn’t come out perfectly, so I continue to rewrite until I deem it is suitable for viewing. But I think this is a good tie into the self-confidence that writing helps to harness. We get that sense of pride when people understand the motivation in your writing., that the words born out of your own character can reach people’s mind in a concise manner. This is what helps me to re-work and re-word continuously, I actively try to reach as many people as possible, maybe my words can breed a new perspective. When I think about writing in this sense the goal becomes clear, and it enables me to take avenues that have yet to be traveled. Besides being a tool for creativity I do find writing to be a endless chase for perfection, especially in my case.

For my literacy narrative, I wanted to focus on my journey as a visual learner and how it has helped me understand and come to terms with my relationship with the English language. Though the piece is still a work in progress, I wanted to connect my love of art and imagination into the way I approach and perceive the concepts of writing as well as language. Here is a small excerpt from my narrative that I would like to share with everyone:

“What are you so afraid of?” Mrs. Huang asked me one day during one of our one-on-one lessons. She had noticed that my progress had started to plateau over the past week. I could only shrug my shoulders as I sat in my chair, staring down at the little name tag taped onto my desk in front of me. On it, ‘Wanye (Tina) Zheng’ was written neatly in Sharpie in Mrs. Huang’s perfect handwriting. Though I recognized this to be my own name, the strings of letters looked so foreign to me; just a series of irregular shapes on a piece of paper that held no meaning. ‘That can’t be me,’ I remember thinking to myself. These squiggles were nothing like the intimidatingly intricate Chinese characters that I had grown so familiar and comfortable with; 鄭婉燁 (Zhèng Wǎn Yè).

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