Michael Martin english 101 essay #2

          My goal is to become a better writer ,after finishing English 101 class this semester. I want to write better than i ever had before. What I mean by this is  I want to improve my sentence structures, decrease my grammar mistakes, improve the organization of  my ideas, I want to write better than my mother and I want to write a essay with no help from anyone. I believe this can be done by the end of this semester with a lot of hard work. I need this ability to improve because it holds me back in life. Without good penmanship your opportunity of job will decrease substantially. The instant benefits I would receive for becoming a better writer  are excelling in school , improve my methods of expressing myself and improve my communicating skills.
            Improving my writing skills is important to me because writing have been my weakest ability my whole life.When I was in elementary school I was the worst writer in most of my classes.I would try my best to avoid writing by acting out in class. I would be a class clown hiding the problem which was I couldn't write. I was not a bad student, I just wasn't disciplined enough to keep trying instead of giving up. My mother tried to get me extra help like a tutor and putting me in the learning center called scores. It helped me improve a little but not as much as i would liked so i gave up on myself. In math I was a 90 student most my life. Math was my favorite subject because I was confident and good at it. Because i was so bad at writing, It became more of a fear to me.As I got to junior high school nothing changed for me. I still was barely passing my writing classes but in math and other subjects I was doing good. My confidence in writing was real low. Being a competitive type of child, i was not happy people in class was better than me when I was better in every other subject. My family is very competitive with each other. I was compared to my cousin in school every year. He had better grades than me mostly every year. I was good in math and he was good at writing. If your a better writer you get higher grades in other classes that has a lot of wring in it. He was just a all around better student than me. That all changed in high school. I became the better student in the family because I improved in writing. Thanks to my freshmen writing teacher. She said i had the idea's but had horrible organization. I also needed some grammar improvement. She just told me i do not right a good first page, but if when i write a rough first. While rewriting my rough draft, I end up seeing all my mistakes. Rewriting it actually helped me improve it and catch all my mistakes. She really helped by giving me that idea to always write a rough draft first then when rewriting it correct it.