Nicholas Marrone Mrs. Raymond UWRT 1103 9/8/15, Learning From Failure ‘Through my first two years of high school I coasted through my writing classes. Everything went well until junior year. I had a new teacher named Mrs. Drewing. She gave us research papers that were expected to be {Q)pages long in MLA format. It was when I was doing these papers that I realized that my writing skills were blunt and needed to be honed. This Una diyeo realization came to me when even I started to think that my papers were of low quality. Since / Jacko3)d I'm not very fond of doing the bare minimum I started going to her every day after school to beytér my writing skills. | had not been doing well in her class and wanted to start making better ‘marks. She would help me with my vocabulary and grammar so I could start implementing more sophisticated words and express myself easier. This made my writing skills much better and eventually I started to do well. After a while we started to form a special bond and this greatly helped me. Instead of — that writin class was boring, [know found it extremely Udelect topic 2 Oo Wut thio Mabe iteresting and fun. Those 1Sag fesdrch papers Were no longer a struggle and doing one was like - BHA going on an adventure. Mrs. Drewing taught me everything I have ever learned and Ihave her to! thank for making me the writer | am today. She knew exactly how to teach me. Since I liked Ldy math, she broke writing and grammar down into an equation that made me understand the process, This is the educational experience that influenced my literacy narrative. eH fee