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A Preliminary Theory of Writing. People anywhere in the world go through In my fourth year of high school, I was various experiences in their lives. Every introduced to summary writing and essay experience affects a person in some way or writing. There I found a more developed the other. The effect can be good, bad, or view of who a good and bad writer is. While even interestingly a combination of both. in that class, my English teacher introduced This is because the mind is a very interesting me to the idea of using careful grammar part of our bodies, as we tend to do and even while writing. At this level of senior four, a become what it thinks for us. Growing up in good writer was one who used good grama different environment back home in East mar and punctuation in writing. Mr. MukAfrica, in a small town named Bugembe, yawe Paul, the oldest serving English teacher has made me appreciate the skill of writing in school, always encouraged good writing through handwriting most of my work. by highlighting the best examples. I became This takes me years back to when I was six made me believe good writers were just years old, as far as I can remember in my born with abilities that average writers didn't nursery class. I had to go through many have. I always gave up whenever I gave it a struggles with the help of my teachers to try while in the school library since I was ensure that I learned how to hold a pen already considering it as a talent, an inborn and write. One of the first most memorable ability one can have. My appreciation of pochallenges I faced at school was to write my etry made me accept and embrace the fear of name. This up to date comes to mind as my writing at first. first experience and genesis into the world of writing. While struggling with lines of sticklike marks in my funny looking blue book My fear stayed with me for almost one year just to come up with the letter “E”, I knew until my final year of high school when I met good writing was first about having my let- a great gentleman named Mr. Paul Kilimi ters aligned on one horizontal line. Wanda, a social critic, poet, editor, and I was inspired through the process by our Paper teacher in my last year of high school. joyous teacher who always drew horizontal He taught a general class aimed at enabling lines on the chalkboard to illustrate what us to attain maturity of thought approprishe wanted us to do exactly. Her theory of ate to our level of mental development. It writing basics enabled us to have neat hand- further developed our understanding and writing, something that I give her credit for use of English so we were able to express in all the assignments we did in the classes arguments, ideas, and opinions reflectively that followed. Given the structure of the and academically. In this class, we were also education system in Uganda, students al- introduced to a more advanced format of ways depend on handwritten notes. My first writing mainly to help us pass the national teacher’s instruction kept this practice alive exams that were coming up soon. in me since then, knowing I needed to be 4 interested in poetry while at this level, which teacher in my school. He was my General