My Greatest Strength As A Writer

As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved writing skills are shown within each essay.

Firstly, when it comes to my strengths in writing, I do not believe I carry many. Of the few I possess, my word selection is a constant advantage for me. I try not to settle for undereducated vocabulary. I see this as taking the easy way out and I do not believe I learn from this. Another one of my strengths when it comes to writing is my adequate spelling. Accurate spelling is strongly in my nature. When I am reading I can sense when a word is spelled incorrectly. My final strength in writing is organization. I believe my work is clear to follow. This is important so I can get my message across to my reader. Although I am solid in these aspects of my writing, they

The best way to get better at something is to practice and have peers critique your style and fundamentals. As a student, I have my professor and my fellow peers to proofread and critique my writing. With these corrections I have learned I have many new strengths and weaknesses in my writing since before I started school at COTC. I have also been given many different types of resources to help improve my writing.

The first strength I have when writing is I have a big imagination. For example when writing a fictional story, I like to have a story where almost anything can happen. Another strength I have when writing is I am good at writing long stories. I feel that most people have trouble writing long essays but, to me, writing long essays comes easily. On the other hand I have some writing weaknesses that I need to improve on.

Some of my weaknesses with clarity and conciseness are making the two aspects participate in my writing assignments. Weakness that show, during my initial writing phase, are being too long winded. Not breaking my sentences up. Forgetting to place a pause where a pause should be. Commas, I hate them.

I believe my strengths when writing are my strong introductions, I usually give a good amount of examples, and my closings are good. I always try to turn away from standard openings and try something more intriguing such starting

Despite this weakness there are strengths that I have discovered in my writing. The strength is that I am able to develop the body of my essay effectively. Additionally, I discovered that the work I was doing both outside and in the course provided me with the opportunity to reinforce the skills I

The shortcomings, I have as a writer is when writing essays my grammar and vocabulary aren’t that well, which makes it harder for me to write my essays. This makes the structure of my paragraph not good and makes some sentences not make any sense. Another weakness that I have in writing is that I don’t add enough evidence in my paragraphs for my essays. This makes the paragraphs lack content which doesn’t help me prove my point that I am trying to show in that essay. Some weaknesses I have with reading is that I lose focus to quick. A lot of long novels or stories don’t suit me because I can't concentrate or pay attention to the book for extended periods of time. When I am reading carelessly and can’t focus on the book, I don’t understand anything that the novel is saying. Also, another weakness that I have as a reader is that I am reading too fast sometimes and don’t understand what the book is saying.

Along with disadvantages of my writing also come the advantages which make me a half way decent writer in my perspective. In writing papers I include many interesting facts about the topic that I am writing on. This skill of being able to research topics good is something that I think is one of my major strengths because of the ability to take the time and patience to weed through tons of material. I am able to take this research that I find and incorporate it into my papers in a fair enough manner that makes my papers have way decent. Another strength that I posses is my

As a writer, I feel that my weakness is struggling with time management and trying to get my best draft as my first draft. I have always struggled with trying to put forth the best draft on the first one and just making little adjustments and then turning the paper in. Another weakness I have is to over complicate my writing and over think submitting the final draft. Every single essay that I have had to write throughout this semester I have struggled with these problems. Particularly the research paper, since the paper was worth such a big percentage of the grade in the class. I was extremely self-conscious about submitting and writing the paper. I took a long time just to finish a rough draft. I reviewed the final draft for hours before submitting the paper. I also experienced the problem of being extremely self-conscious after I submitted the paper and question everything I choose to write on.

My biggest weakness is my unlikeness for writing. I don’t enjoy writing because I am never satisfied with the papers I write. I read a lot of books, so when I write a paper I want it to be up to my standards. If I never had a deadline, I would continue editing my paper forever. I want my papers to have the perfect tone. I come off as robotic and boring in my papers. My papers are hardly interesting because

First, I would like to say what my areas of strength writing an essay are. The particular essay I have enjoyed writing was project 4. I found my strength within the research. It was an amazing feeling researching information. I chose to write about the death penalty. The reason I wanted to write about it because, I was very curious about the subject. At first I was for the death penalty. After much research I was against the death penalty. It was amazing topic research.

One of my strengths this year was in my persuasive digital photo essay. I excelled in leaving out the “crud” in my 630 word paper except for 20 of those words. I used “there” once, “their” four times, six “it’s” and nine words that ended with “-ly” (persuasive essay 1). Displaying the incorrect parts of my essay is not a strength, although avoiding words like “it’s” and words that end with “-ly” is a strength that I will remember the rest of my writing career. Nevertheless, by rearranging my sentences and researching synonyms that are more attention grabbing than “this”, “always”, and “thing” I enhanced my writing. Therefore creating a story/paper that is far more interesting and exciting to read.

Throughout my journey through English 111, I have learned a lot through all my papers and my writing has opened up within a way I never thought it would. I have many strengths in my papers, but also still have many weakness that I must improve on to be the writer I want to be at the end of this journey. Many pieces I have written this semester, many great ideas put into words that have simply flows onto the keyboard. At the end of the day every paper has it weakness.

Writing is not just as simple as putting words down on a document or a piece of paper, it is a process. Within this intricate process are steps that involve more than just writing, such as critical thinking, planning, and editing. Using these steps has not only helped me when planning an essay but also when composing one. Throughout this course, I have managed to improve many skills and gain a lot of strengths, but I still possess some weaknesses. Overall, I believe my strengths have definitely outgrown these weaknesses and have led to a better, more high-quality writing process which leads to improved essays.