Personal Reflection: My Strengths

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. On the first day when Mrs. Garth told us we had to write a paper in just two days my heart sank. I knew I was not a good writer, so I thought I was going to fail my first assignment. When

When I write, I tend to go off topic and it throws my audience off. This all comes back to topic sentences and transitions. When writing a regular paper, I left my audience behind by not leading them in the direction I was headed with my paper. I jumped around instead of going in order of thesis statement. This is still a huge problem of mine, but I plan to work on it next semester. The last weakness I discovered was using too much research in my research papers. When we started working on research papers, I researched everything. When it was time to write my paper it was research research research. I did not tell my point of view of talk about how I felt about the topic. In my last research paper I got a little better at not using so much research but I still tend to use a little too much. I also plan to fix this going into compositions two. Theses weaknesses are not anything that cannot be fixed, and I cannot wait to start working on them next semester in comp