My Weakness In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The school year has just about concluded. I have wrote a couple of pieces this year. Some of the grades are at the high eighties and some are at the low seventies. Sometimes, what I should write just comes to my head, but other times I need to take a lot of time to complete the task. Some of my best essays, were the success essay and the mid-year portfolio. Some of my terrible essays were, To Kill a Mockingbird and Characteristics of Brother, First, I will explain my weaknesses when it comes to writing essays, then my strengths, and my growth as a writer this year.
Weaknesses make my writing confusing or unclear. One of my weaknesses is the ideas and content. When I look at my rubric, I realized most of the time my ideas and content is the lowest out of all the other ones. In my “Success” essay, most of the other assessments criteria were in the five column. I only got two fours on this essay, what I mess up on is the ideas and content and word choice. Word choice is also another one of my weakness. When I'm writing I don't really focus on imagery, I focus on what I need to do. As I look through all of my writing pieces, I see that I don't have a lot of strong vocabulary. When I write I noticed that I used basic words and not complex vocabulary. …show more content…

One of my strengths is the organization. When I write, all of the details are in the correct order, so it does not seem like I am going back and forth to my main idea. When I writing, I only have a paragraph based off of the main idea, and I make sure that all of the details are in chronological order. In my “Compassion” essay, the body paragraphs had details that lead up to the last point in the paragraph. Another one of my strengths In my “Brother’s Characteristics” essay, my supporting details were really strong; they helped prove what I am trying to

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