Malcolm X's article

Using Malcolm X's article for a model to write my own paper on an educational experience will be easy. His inspirational words provide beneficial guidance. The article is very different from the other two articles we read. The structure and writing style differ greatly; he is more personal and less professional than the other two articles in his writing. Malcolm X inspires with his perseverance and determination to learn to read. He takes it upon himself to pick up a dictionary and dive in. Even when the task at hand became tedious and heavy he did not give up.

"In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks.

            I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I’d written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting."

He discusses his personal struggles and the difficult hurdles he had to conquer in his learning experience. I can take this deeply personal style of writing into account when designing my own paper. I can also take not only the style and structure of his writing into account but the content of the article. His determination in learning to read leads me to want to write more personably about my own educational experience and to think more on what else came from my own experience.

Malcolm X discuses the many doors that opened to him when he learned to read; what could have come from my own experience that perhaps I have not thought about? I will have to use the article as inspiration to think on these things before writing my own paper.