My Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing Who said writing was easy? I personally believe that there’s no writer born perfect. Everyone has its strengths and weakness when it comes to writing including myself. It takes time and dedication to become a good writer. Throughout my high school years, my writing was horrible, I had a hard time with grammar errors, run on sentences, and never took the time to brainstorm. Now as a college student I’ve improved my writing ten times better. I’ve learned from my mistakes and this lead me to have more improvements on my writing, yet I still have weaknesses like every other writer does. One of my strongest strength would be organization, I like to organize my ideas first before I start writing in order to …show more content…
I’ve always struggle with this on my writing. I rather tell someone what I want to say and let them write it down. Even though, I have improve a bit, I’d say I still have trouble using the right verb, noun or with run-ons sentence. On my graded essays, I would see common errors like not using the right subject-verb or passive verb. I need to work with sentence structure in order to improve this area. Every handout our teacher gave us, that had to do with run-ons or verb agreement were really helpful because it gave me a better understanding on how to use them. Lack of proofreading is another weakness, I have trouble reading my own writing. Every time I proofread my work I fail to catch common errors like punctuation errors, fragments, or run-ons, but when someone else reads my work they have a hard time understanding what I’m trying to say. I wrongly assume that the reader is able to understand my thoughts, when I read over my work it’s like I know what I’m trying to say I have it on my mind, so when I’m reading my work it’s really hard to find mistakes. Also I tend to repeat myself several times, when proofreading my work I’ll find this mistake, but then it seems like if I don’t say what I wrote down it would make the reader get
Where there are weaknesses there are also strengths and mine lie within the body paragraphs. I arrange my ideas well by using quotes about my subject and explaining them.
errors that could easily be fixed. This is because I reread the gibberish I write and polish it up. My papers
When I read “Proficiency” by Shannon Nichols I really felt for her. I understood and resonated with her story perfectly, especially when she stated “After I failed the test the first time, I began to hate writing and I started to doubt myself. I doubted my ability and the ideas I wrote about.” (83). After I failed my writing assignment I was so embarrassed and didn’t want to write again but obviously, I had to. I always doubt the things I am going to say or which order I am going to organize the essay in. I try so hard to make sure all my sentences are cohesive and all my ideas connect to each other and the main concept but sometimes it just seems that when I keep messing with one little sentence or paragraph I just makes things worse.
As the first semester of my sophomore year wraps up, I begin to realize that I have learned a lot in all of my classes. The class that I learned the most from has definitely been my English 111 course. This class have given me so many opportunities to improve my writing skills. With all of the success I’ve had in this class, I believe I will do just fine with writing later in my life.
run on sentences. They have changed dramatically over the semester. Before this semester I knew run ons were my biggest struggle. I never really thought it was an important aspect of literacy. My teachers would tell me that my biggest struggle was run ons. But never did anything to make me improve my struggle. They never motivated to even try to change my habit. It wasn’t until college English when realized that In order to write good essays, I have to fix my run on habits.
The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846 to 1848 and marked the first U.S. armed conflict that was fought entirely on foreign soil. It put a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the great-powered U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border dispute along the Rio Grande kicked off the war and fighting and was followed by a series of United States victories. After the war was over, Mexico had lost about one-third of its land, including almost all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Texas acquired its independence from Mexico in 1836.
This semester entering English 102 I thought of myself as a bad writer with a lot to say and no idea how to coordinate it or express it. A big reason why I took English stretch composition was to strengthen my writing skills. I feel like I have a better idea of where to put my ideas but I really need help with the technical writing and how to do research papers correctly. My concerns over the semester are not the same as they were at the beginning, they have changed. One of my concerns was that I wouldn’t know how to organize a college essay, but that concern is gone now. A new concern I have this semester is my run on sentences and the punctuation and the lack thereof.
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.
Every time when I have to do a writing assignment I have to go through the similar experience. If I have to make a list with all of my writing problems, the number one will be “Articles” For an ESL student, it is really difficult to understand when and what article should be used. Thus, articles “a” and “the” look tricky for me. Another problem for me is prepositions. Many times I am using “about” instead of “for”, and it does not make sense for me why “wishing for a new bike” is correct and “wishing about a new bike” is wrong. Using the correct verb tense is another issue for me. A lot of times I use simple verb tenses, and I am struggling with perfect verb tenses. Punctuation also causes problems for me in my writing process, especially
As a student, I feel that I have many writing weaknesses. I know that on my own, and because teachers have told me so. Some of the complications I face with writing is not using enough body paragraphs, forgetting a thesis statement, lack of word choice, punctuation errors, and etc. I am unaware at times of my mistakes, but I always try to correct them.
Since my schooling began at a young age, a lack of attention has always been my downfall. I quickly become discouraged, and uninterested; when faced with criticism ,or a lack of positive feedback. The errors in my paper exist for many reasons, my lack of attention being the most important. I do not feel a book or online resource will be a sufficient tool to help me better my writing. Sadly, this is not the way I learn or retain information.
But practice alone is not enough, another tool that could be significant is constructive feedback. Feedback from a peer, supervisor and course instructor can all offer input about both the style and content of your writing. After having someone examine and correct a piece of your writing, it is time to rewrite. There a few things to be mindful of when rewriting your material, such as someone giving their honest criticism about your writing, and you being able to receive the analysis without getting your feelings hurt.
Also with my sentence structure issue I had words that were spelled incorrectly once again because of not careful rereading. In an alternate essay when I was talking about how Darnay and how he almost lost his wife, I say, "His suffering in prison brought him closer to his wife and her father, it made him realize all he was going to loose" (Tale of Two Cities). The word loose, should have been changed lose, with careful reading I could have caught that. The overall theme I have with most of my essays is that I don't carefully read and or have someone proof read for
I think this could be due to two different reasons. The first being my lack of a grammatical background. Obviously, you can’t be expected to implement concepts that have never been taught to you. The other reason is that I have a really hard time editing my own work. I say to my students ALL the time, “PLEASE re-read your work. I know you don’t want to but I promise it’s going to help.” However, I am guilty as charged! Most of the time I just want to get the paper done and turn it in. I spend very little time going over my own work or reading it out loud. For some reason I have a mental block against going back to my own work and revising. I remember a specific comment that a professor left on one of my papers a year or two ago where he said that editing is the most important part of the paper. He explained that some of my errors were distracting from my writing and all of the points that I want to make. That was really an eye opening moment for me. I realized that I was sounding less intelligent because of my grammar (any somewhat laziness) mistakes. In the past year I have really tried to pay attention to my grammar and check my work more carefully but it is an ongoing
As I received essay 3 back, I realized I had the same mistakes from all my previous papers. I have a habit of missing words in my sentences. Usually when I write papers, I spend hours typing away at the computer screen. My words run into each other and everything made sense to me. The teacher suggested I read my papers out loud and that’s what I plan to do in the future. I also think time management contributes to this problem. In the future, I plan to manage my time more wisely so I can have time to come back to my essays and revise them. Hopefully my writing mistakes will diminish if I stick to this