Personal Narrative: My Strengths And Weaknesses As A Writer

Every great writer had to start somewhere, and they all started out with some weaknesses. While these writers grew, so did their strengths and their weaknesses. Throughout this short eight-week course, I went through a whole lot at a fast pace. I felted that I did a good job keeping up with the class, and staying on top of my work. Also while going through this class I learned that I had a few strengths and some weaknesses. I learned that I had strengths of imagination and clarity, with those I also have a weakness with my time management.

My first strength as a writer would be my imagination. While I read a story for the first time my imagination helps me to make my own story while I read it. It also helps me to see the bigger picture in a story, and really have a grasp of what the authors point in writing the story is. My imagination also helped me with my writing in this class, by helping me get my word count up. It helped me to imagining new things, and to get them down on the paper so that my word count would go sky high.

My second strength as a writer in this class would be my clarity. This helped me by making sure I was putting my words down in a way that the reader would know what I was trying to say. This also helped my imagination side of my writing, by making sure all my ideas where getting written down clearly. Having clarity

while writing also helped me to have all my information organized, and written down in a way the reader knew what I was trying to say.
Along with my strengths I also had a weakness of time management. I had a hard time actually sitting down and getting my papers written. It was especially hard for me to get the time to start them when I was first trying writing them, because I had to come up with all the material. This hurt my essays sometimes because I would procrastinate, and then I would start the essay a few days before it was due. Since I would only have a few days to write the essay, I would have to rush and I would make simple mistakes.
In addition to only having myself read the paper, I also had a time in class when my classmates got a chance to read my papers. There was a time set out in class, so that we got to give and receive each other’s essays. This was a good thing for me, because the mistakes that I had on my paper where brought to light. Also it was also a good thing because the students would give me ideas on what I should add to my essays to make them better. Along with the peer editing we also set time aside in class to discuss ideas about the essays. This helped me by getting ideas in my head, and getting a baseline for each story.
Throughout this short eight week I really got to see what my strengths and weaknesses are as a writer.

I learned that I am a good writer whenever I actually sit down and write, and that I have a few things to work on. One activity I can do to enhance my writing skills would be to write. I just need to write more and learn new things as I write. One way I can improve my weakness as a writer, would be to get to a place without distractions and just start writing. Although this class was very short and at a fast past, I felt that I improved as a writer and that I have a good foundation to start out my college writing

career.