The first time I remember any type of writing was when I was in kindergarten, and I had to write my name on the board. In my class if you did something wrong you wrote your name on the board. I can't even remember what I did wrong, but I do remember being very embarrassed. Kids thought that if you wrote your name on the board it was the end of the world. This thought seems strange to me because I cannot remember ever learning how to write I just remember having the ability to write it. Going up to the front of the board made me nervous, and because you have to write with chalk while you stand up and that was always a little tricky.

The next memory I have is learning cursive in the first grade. The teacher gave a little handout that listed the capital and lower case forms of the alphabet. We also had a workbook of recycled paper to practice in. I told myself I wanted to have the best cursive in the class

A more recent memory is the English paper I did a few months ago. It is sad to think that I cannot remember the topic, but just like with reading if it is not interesting I won not like it. My English teacher administers the same topics every year and it gets very boring. When I am not motivated to write I sit down at the computer and just get the thoughts on paper. I briefly read over the paper for mistakes, print it out, and then turn it in. An unmotivated paper is always done the night before it is due.

Another early writing memory I have is one of my first major assignment. In the third grade my teacher assigned us a research paper. I had to research the human heart and was upset that I didn't get the lungs. I was very lazy in the third grade, just like now, and I started the paper two days before it was due. When I did start the research I finally experienced the joy of reading. Before this point I never really like reading but when I read about the heart it interested me. If a reading assignment doesn't interest me I am not going to like it or retain the information. The topic doesn't have to be exciting but has to spark a small interest or the information it holds will be useless to me.

When I finally get to the fi

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