Writing Biography

I am always a little bit self-conscious with my writing. It all started in eighth grade when my teacher read my essay out loud to the class as an example of “what not to do”. My teacher turned my bad essay into a lesson. She went around and asked each student what they would have done differently on my essay. I was humiliated as classmates pointed and laughed at me. I’m not the greatest writer but I still didn’t think my essay was that bad. Also, I don’t think I deserved to have my teacher humiliate me the way she did. I had two other bad writing experiences in high school. In my first year of high school, there was this teacher whom a lot of students hoped they would not get  because it was rumored that she was mean. I was disappointed when I saw her name on my schedule and hoped I wouldn’t have too much trouble in her class. One of our assignments was to right a persuasive essay. I had done a couple before and felt that it would be an easy assignment. I was wrong. The first draft I passed in to her she didn’t like because I was too nice. The second draft I was too mean. She made me rewrite the essay over again four times. After she read my fourth draft she told me that she changed her mind and agreed the first draft was fine. The last bad writing experience I had was during my senior year. Every senior was required to type a research paper on any topic they chose. One of my favorite things at the time was marine life so I chose to write about the horrors of dolphin slaughters. I worked very hard every day during the two months we were given to complete the project. One of my friends who was in the same class kept putting the project off even after the due date. I watched as she typed up a random essay to turn in. She passed in her research paper sixty days late and still got three points higher than me. I couldn’t believe that my teacher accepted it sixty days late and not even take late points off from it. Later I found out my friend wasn’t the only one who escaped late points on their paper. When another student and I asked the teacher why she didn’t take late points off she said it was because the essays made her laugh. I’m not sure if I’m self-conscious about my writing because of these experiences but they definitely did not help matters any.