My teacher in my English 1 class have given us a task to evaluate ourselves as a reader and a writer and if I consider myself as a good reader and a good writer – this task really had given me a hard time to think. After a deep thought, I have realized the importance of having good reading and writing habits. I felt guilty of not loving the books more.
As I evaluated myself as a reader, I have come into a conclusion that I could classify myself as a casual reader. A casual reader as cited from www.saskschools.ca reads for a purpose such as an assignment or specific information need, will occasionally read for pleasure, would read more if encouraged and has average reading skills. Most of the time I read books and other reading materials because of academic purposes. I have a very poor reading habits, I think I have only read five novels in my whole life, two are works of Paulo Coelho, one is Mitch Albom’s work and the others I forgot. I find pleasure reading trivia and facts about sports, animals and technology. I give little attention on reading books, articles, magazines, etc. because I am an outdoor person; I spend most of my time playing any sports, chats with my friends, and exercise. In average, I think I only read 20 pages a day. I do appreciate the benefits of reading but I think I need to encourage more myself to improve my reading habits.
I felt guiltier after I evaluating myself as a writer. I have poor writing habits, I rarely write. I only write when I am asked by my teacher to do so or the situation encourages me to do so. Way back my high school years; I have really a problem on my writing skills. I have a very limited vocabulary and have problem generating ideas that is why I don’t get good grades on my Journalism subject. It takes me two to three hours before I could write an article. This article even took me one and half hour to finish. Since I have started blogging somehow my skill in writing have improve a bit. I hope this will go on.
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