I have always struggled in English classes; however, this year I am doing better in my opinion. With great weaknesses there will be great strengths. My strengths are as followed: the usage of transitions properly and correctly, paragraph unifying and development, and creating a strong thesis and conclusion. However, my weaknesses include: having troubles with staying in the same tense, comma splice, fragment sentences, and vaguely word choices. I will follow use the following resources to help improve my future papers in Composition 1 class: LB book, include more proofreaders, and lastly paperrater.com. My strengths were taught during my Composition 1 class this year. I learned how to unify paragraphs like a professional. Unifying and developing paragraphs has always been a struggle for years; therefore, I have overcome that weakness and is now considered a …show more content…
People find it hard to admit their weaknesses, but I am a proud announce of them! Having weaknesses makes a stronger writer by wanting to better my writing. One of my weaknesses includes having trouble with staying in the same tense. I tend to jump around with my verb tenses and find it difficult to stay in the past when wanting to talk about how you feel at the same time. However, I have learned you can include your thoughts in present tense in your conclusion. I trouble with comma splice and sentence fragments. I never know if I am either leaving out information or including too much; on the same hand, I place commas where I would pause as if I was speaking. Which brings me to my next point; however not knowing where to put a comma could include confusion on me. In addition, I struggle with broadening my vocabulary. I still have vocabulary word choices as a high school student. Texting has a very high factor in my vocabulary and I will be the first to admit that. With the resources I have gained access to I will immediately take
One of the biggest weaknesses I have is not being able to transition from paragraphs effectively. In the Lord of the Flies and Asher Lev essays, I did not create a good flow through the essay, making it sort of choppy. I can improve this by increasing my knowledge of transition words and not expanding ideas too much. Also I have to work on slowing down my pace with writing and watch out for grammar mistakes. A way I could improve this is learning the placement of quotations in sentences, that they should be after a period in some cases. Another idea that I have to improve on is choosing the best evidence for my claim. In the Lord of the Flies essay, I had not chose the best evidences and it did not effectively show examples of the claim. I have to learn how to pick evidence that best suits my point of the argument and that I can tie in with my
Over my career of schooling my writing has changed dramatically at times and very little at others. Through my years of schooling people have determined my main weaknesses and strengths that I should work on with my writing. My biggest weakness is writing introductions and conclusions they must be so complicated and require so much thought to be defined as good. I excel at writing body paragraphs and explaining all the facts that back up your main ideas though.
These strengths have allows for me to flourish in school and the activities I participate in. Along side these strengths are my weaknesses that have allowed me to encounter some learning opportunities. Ive gained knowledge from these weaknesses. Ive learned how to evaluate a situation and gauge how assertive I need to be in order to get a group to accomplish a task. Ive also learned that sometimes I need to put my needs in front of other people 's in some situations, such as deciding where I want to continue my education after high
One strength I saw myself, as having when I enter college is being able to understand and critical think about a essay/article that I have read. However, after taking English 101, I have now learned that this is a strength of mine as well as a weakness.
In this paper, I am to write about my strengths and weaknesses in writing. This is not an easy task for me because I have never considered myself a writer. Reading other peoples thoughts are activities that are more my speed. I simply have trouble putting my thoughts into writing. Since, I do not feel that I have many strengths, let's move on to my weaknesses.
In my writing I have realized my strengths are that I always view my paper as a work in progress. I may have weaknesses in my writing but my writing strength lies in my ability to work past the problems and fix them. Struggles I possess in writing is properly wording my sentences to make them flow together and not be choppy. When I type out a paper it seems to make sense from my perspective but when others read some of my longer papers I lose the reader. With your help I would like to work on making my papers easier to read and the subjects in them to come across to the reader the way they were meant
Meanwhile, I believe that writing is one of my weaknesses in English. I cannot say that English is my second language as an excuse to learn writing well. Therefore, I would like to spend more time on studying writing. I must try to deal with problems that I face in writing English in different ways. However, I need to improve in English not only writing skills but also listening skills, speaking skills, and reading skills. I believe that there is no doubt that improvement is important, and necessary. I think great effort is one of my strengths. I would like to try my best to finish everything I should have done even though I am not good at it. On the other word, I will never give up something that either my weaknesses or my strengths.
After learning about my strengths, I realized how much I actually use my strengths in everyday life. My strengths include individualization, strategic, relator, includer and arranger.
Walking in one the first day of English Comp one I was nervous and scared. Our teacher announced on the first day of school we had a paper due the following Friday. I wanted to lie down and cry when she made that announcement. Knowing I had many weaknesses, I did not realize I also had strengths. In Composition one I learned that my strengths include knowing the variety of my audience, being descriptive with my writing, understanding grammar and mechanics, and arguing both sides of a story. I found that my weaknesses are topic sentences, transitioning, guiding my audience, and using too much research. Though I have plenty of things that could some improvement, this semester in composition one I many triumphs.
Strengths as a writer are the ability to write with passion and truth with a personal perspective. My challenges as a writer have been the getting started part with focus and discipline it takes for expression. English being the first language in speech for some, but in perspective writing it is a foreign concept with challenges. The writing of thoughts to visualize on paper is like a blind person writing what he/she cannot see. Blinders block visionary thoughts and imagination to come alive in a lover's lane of passion. The killing of a spirit in the soul for expression words to soar and fly freely without the cutting of a wing. A writer's passion blocked without doors to open and close with no artistic view. Writing was always a hindrance throughout my education path.
Of my many other flaws in writing commas are/is (this is another one we just learned about that and I still don't know which it is) a big, one. I don't know where to put them. As well as grammar I'm terribly not good at. In other words I can't English. This is why grammarly is my best friend (Can we use grammarly). And poetry kinda messed me up cause now i'm trying to put rhythm in all my writing and it just doesn't turn out right nor good at all.
Identifying my strengths has never came easy to me. I can quickly state my flaws, but speaking about what I can contribute has always been a challenge. Taking the strengths assessment was an eye opener because by results described me perfectly. Discovering my strengths will help me in my future practice as a student affairs professional and my current position as the Student Development Specialist of a college preparatory program for high school students.
When I started English 102, I started with a few things I already master and a few things that I end up learning after my time attending English 102. When starting English 102 what I master was I did not have such a hard time working with the MLA format since it was a format I been working on for years. While it is easy for me to write essay base on my own personal experience. Although writing is not my strong suit in English, following the rules and how the format should be would be consider my strongest side of English. As for my weaknesses with English is mostly that I have hard time making my sentences flow, since my sentences flow to me, but when others read it they may consider it a bit choppy or hard to read. Also that I have a little
Although I feel confident about writing in first person and comma placement, I still feel like those are some areas I need to improve in. English has always been one of my strongest subjects, but I feel like there is always still room for improvement. Even though I struggle with these things, I still feel confident about my writing. Small errors like comma errors are still an issue, but I was able to cut these errors in half by the time I completed the First Year Writing Program. Occasionally, I struggle with not using enough sophisticated vocabulary, but it is not a major
After completion of my first paper, “Summary” I have discovered that my weaknesses out way my strengths in writing. I will be working diligently to improve several aspects of my composition. With hard work and a lot of practice I hope to overcome at least some off my short-falls in writing.