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
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strength! In the same way, I have increased my knowledge on transitions and how to use them properly and correctly. In my preliminary paper, I had troubled with transitions and how to correctly punctuate around the transition being used. However, I have used transitions in the proper way with correct punctuation since my first paper written in Composition 1 class. Lastly, I must mention that I have increased my ability to create a strong thesis and conclusion. After many years of struggling; nevertheless, I possess in my grammar and punctuation skills. Despite, all of my strengths I do have weaknesses.
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
action! Learning about all the different resources I have easy access too will help create a better and healthier paper. Having the Little Brown book will help encourage my transition and wording and help with my comma placing. The most helpful page to me includes page 46 in the Little Brown book. I was introduced to the website called, Paperrater.com, and I used the website for my reflection paper. I found it to be very helpful, on the same note; I received nearly the same grade they gave me. In spite of, all my resources out there for me I will include more proofreading with my papers. I have my family who is always available and willing to help pursue my goals and will help with whatever they can. Proofreading seems to be not all that important; however, they may see what others have missed. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” written by Fredrick Douglass. Including all my strengths and weaknesses, I have gained a lot of information within our class period. I increased my writing skills and created a thesis with proper structures needed in a paper. Granted the resources I gained access too, will create a stronger paper structure. As a result to the resources, I learned and absorbed more skills to carry on with me. I am going to take advantage of paperrater website to resolve any mistakes that were over looked.
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.
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
Throughout this semester, I was able to learn many writing skill and was able to develop as a writer. When I found out that I was scheduled to be in English Composition I, I was very nervous as I have always felt that writing was one of the skills that I needed to improve on. Although I usually received good grades on my essays, I did not like writing them since it would always take me more than five hours to write a one page essay. If I wanted a good grade in English Composition I, I knew that I was definitely going to have to improve on my grammars. The main skills that we learned in this class were writing a clear thesis statement, paragraph structures, and sensory details. Through this class, I was able to attain more knowledge in these areas and gain confidence in my writing skills. The areas that I have improved on over the course of the semester are staying in the same tense, using
One strength I had was the organization of the essay. My sentences I wrote were not all over the place each paragraph talks about one topic. One weakness I had with writing this essay was my writing style. I noticed that in this essay my writing style was a bit choppy. I should have read my essay out loud to see if it had a good flow between my ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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