English 202 Research Writing, Jan 25

My name is Paul Coccia, i currently am studying Criminology at IUP. Growing up as a young kid, i looked at life in many different ways from things that inspired me to write about as well as stories that i had the chance to read. I always found myself reading books based on war and action events that occured in life. I always preferred writing and drawing pictures of war stories that i read about. Most of the writing that i completed as a younger kid was in Middle school. My seventh grade English teacher Mrs. Simmons, would allow us to write about events and life focuses that affected us or drew the most attention to us. As i began to continue to write during the year, i clearly become focused on news events and found myself writing about mysteries of life, and civil wars that broke out over the world. When i got into high school my writing changed from free writing, to reading poems and short stories. I learned how to write poetry, based on just about anything that came to my mind at the time being. I learned then to complete 10 page papers on simple topics that took place in history, or events that were occurring in the news daily.