Dear Reader Letter

Trials and hardships are the foundation that defines the person you are. I am currently a single mother of four, pregnant with my fifth. As you can imagine this might be quite the trial of life. I would say that I haven’t always been blessed with the best, always just enough to survive. I cannot say that I am not thankful for what I do have though as trials and hardships have made me into the person I am today. I blow my birthday candles out on February 14th. My idea for life is to succeed; therefore, I am back in school to do just that. I am taking an English 97 class for the moment. I personally don’t like trying to be grammatically correct because I have not learned the how to do so. Although, I do hope to learn how to fix the errors I make in my writing by the end of this quarter.

I would say that I have the typical issues with writing. Which would be, my ideas are strong, but when I transfer them to writing, they don’t make sense to the reader. Another, downfall in my writing is the punctuation. I just didn’t understand the structure and rules of writing which lead to the errors in my writing, such as what a sentence contains in-order to be a grammatically correct sentence. Now that I have learned the rules, such as the structure of a sentence, verb tense, punctuation, and have a better knowledge of how to write, I am able to recognize some of my mistakes. With my good ideas, and new knowledge of how to write I have found my papers becoming stronger.

In this you will find a few of my papers that I wrote for this class. I have picked them for the reason that the idea of each paper has true meaning from my heart and life experiences as I also I find them to be my strongest papers. The first paper you will read is what I believe shows my ability to take a paper through the writing process. Secondly, I have included what I found to be my best piece of descriptive writing. Next paper I have chosen is to present my most effective writing. The last piece I have chosen for you to read is my first major writing assignment that I wrote and I picked this one because I feel that it was my steppingstone to learning. I hope that you enjoy reading my progress in learning as much as I have had putting this portfolio together.