A central trait of my personality is a love of the truth. What I believe is very important to me because it defines my entire life. Like everyone else, what I believe makes up my worldview, the context in which I understand everything else. Because of this love of truth I have a desire for knowledge. I pursue questions without answers. I like to think, to observe, to learn. At the same time, I also have a love for people. Making others happy and improving their lives brings me joy. I do not have a single slogan or phrase, but I can find humor in anything and a question in everything. As an effect my writing becomes mostly facts or logical arguments, rather than opinions, feelings, and thoughts.
As a writer, my tastes are very specific. I find much pleasure and accomplishment in writing a paper that conveys a point around a well constructed, logical argument. Because of this, I mostly enjoy writing persuasive essays. In contrast, I dislike writing about feelings, emotions, or any abstract idea that cannot be backed completely by facts and proof. If I could do any type of writing in the future it would either be technical, scientific writing or some type of journalism. My high school English teacher pushed me to be a better writer, which developed my writing skills and prepared me for English 101. In English 101 we wrote mostly essays about novels or short stories that we had been studying. We did one research paper in the context of a novel at the end of the year. Writing this paper was very interesting for me because it gave me an opportunity to make an argument on whether or not the writing of Mark Twain should be considered racist today. Research is an excellent form of learning because it not only improves one’s own knowledge but it also informs others by way of writing.
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