My Weaknesses Essay

Chiefly, I tend to overcomplicate tasks in a variety of applications: writing, working, studying and so on. This proclivity to overcomplicate things makes my writing oftentimes verbose. Verbosity can diminish the impact of writing, especially by disengaging the audience and losing their focus. Additionally, another weakness I have in writing is of the preliminary writing process. I struggle to begin a piece of writing. A painstaking process, I often write the primary draft of a piece five or six times before I reach a product I am willing to work with. This likely is directly related to my tendency to complicate my work. Lastly, my writing also suffers from too singular of a focus. During the writing process, I tend to fixate on a singular viewpoint of a topic. I believe that my writing would be benefit by developing the ability to step back from a topic and evaluate it through a broader lens and looking at the extensive context of the issue I am working with. Allowing myself to this more often would provide far more developed thought and perspective in my writing.

In the beginning of the semester, everyone was write down two goals that would be accomplished in the semester. Experience in writing papers showed me that I was weak in writing any type of papers. However, I was determined to stop repeating idea by rewording as well as writing information that is unnecessary. Also, I knew I had to improve on writing essays with no to very few mistakes, whether it is structurally or punctually. I am pleased with discontinuing any repetitions while writing, but am not so pleased about structuring and punctuating my sentences.

Often, I find it difficult to make the initial steps of breaking and crossing barriers. The benefits that I gain each time I cross barriers shows me that I often get in the way of my own success. Unlike other subjects, I need to put forth greater efforts in understanding the concepts presented in math. Weakness in math can discourage me from achieving the academic success and grade point average (GPA) I strive for. Despite being adept at communicating my thoughts vocally, I find difficulty doing the same through writing. Not being able to formulate my thoughts into well written sentences is a major weakness, as writing is an important aspect of every field. Time management is another skill I need to improve. Mismanagement of time leads me to indulge in wasteful tasks, often leading me to accomplish less than what I hoped. Finally, I can easily be frustrated, frequently being impatient with myself and with my work. When a task is not going as well as planned, I momentarily surrender by taking a break to clear my mind, and to avoid handling the

When I first started English 101, I saw myself as having a few good strengths and a lot of weaknesses as a writer. Some of my strengths included being able to write a good introduction minus the thesis part. I also saw myself as knowing how to write a good conclusion that summarized what I talked about in my essay and being able to understand a article or essay by knowing what the author was talking about. Some of the improvements I saw in my writing thorough out the semester is learning how to write an essay where I can communicate with the audience with my own personal voice. I also feel I improved on knowing how to properly include quotes and how to find good creditable sources to include in my essay and on how to include both sides of a argument in my paper. Another improvement I found in my papers is learning how to revise them and approach each essay. However, there are some items of writing that I believe I improved on but still needs some work. For example, even though I have learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to determine them in a essay, I still feel as if I do not know how to properly included them in my essay. I also see myself as improving on knowing how to write a thesis but still need work on

In my future writing, I can improve by focusing on the areas that have been brought to my attention, such as fragmented sentence structures, capitalization, punctuation, and MLA formatting mistakes. I hope to enhance my writing skills through better planning, drafting, proofreading, and revising. I can become a better writer by building upon my current writing abilities and paying more attention to my

One of my strong points in writing is coming up with ideas and knowing how to get started on a paper. I guess you can say I am a free writer. Whatever in my head ends up on paper and I could write about a lot of things that matters to me or upsets me and feel passion when writing it down, but there also a weakness that I can’t overcome because my inner critic come along with it. Which makes me completely change and overshadow my own writing. I have a problem with revising and not being able to see the flaws in my writing, but that’s not it. I overpower one topic with another one in other words I would mash up two topics that is the exact opposite of each other which contradict my whole paper. The other problem is shorting up a sentence as well

Looking back on my freshman and sophomore years, I now realize how little I actually knew about reading literature and writing. Before junior year, I had never learned how to actively read a book, how to connect novels to each other, or even what passive voice is! Even being so naive, I still have always been a fairly decent writer. I have always had good grasps on grammar, mechanics, and comma usage. I also have never had an issue with organization of writing. The structural aspect of writing has rarely been an issue for me. I try to exemplify my writing mechanics in my writing by using complex sentences to show that I can lengthen my writing, but still have it make sense. It has always been the creative part of writing that has been my challenge. I have never been a creative person, so at times that aspect of writing has been quite difficult for me.

My strengths as a writer would have to be my wide and varied lexicon that I can draw upon as needed to assist my writing to make it seem far less bland than it actually is. I would also consider my ability to create convincing arguments one of my better writing traits. However, both of those are hobbled by my inability to clearly express my ideas in a cognizant manner. I struggle to put my ideas from my thoughts onto paper in a way that most people can make sense of, which has led me to be a "bad" writer for the majority of my life. My other weakness is something that ties into inability to clearly express myself, and that's my use of punctuation. I'm keenly aware that it tends to be atrocious, which baffles me because I consider myself to be a good editor. I feel this stems from the fact that my brain plugs in or omits certain information when I read my own papers so that it seems

While I’m very good at organizing my paper, I do have a hard organizing my ideas occasionally. By that I mean that sometimes I simply don’t know what I want to say, or how to say it. Once I start getting an idea of how I want to write a paper, it starts working itself out, but sometimes it can be easier said than done, depending on the topic. I am also absolutely atrocious with punctuation. I generally know when it’s time to put a period at the end of the sentence, but my main problem is mostly commas. My other major problems are when to use colons, semicolons, hyphens, or when to start the next paragraph. Lastly, I’m not very good at forming sentences. This mostly linked to punctuation again, and not about word choice. However, I find I’m always questioning whether I have a run-on sentence, fragment sentence, or if I’m doing something else

My areas for improvement as a writer are grammar and wording. Since English is not my primary language, I have many flaws on my writing techniques. Sometimes, my sentence becomes wordy or awkward if I could not explain something what I thought. Also, I have a hard time distinguishing what or when to use proper articles in front of the noun, or what preposition should be used in front of particular phrases or verbs.

Although I’ve never consider myself a writer, I think I can write some pretty good stories that can draw attention from my audiences, especially fictional narratives. Besides drawing attention from my audiences, I also think my writings have good punctuation. But although I have some strengths in writing, I have some weaknesses, the process of starting a writing are the hardest, I doubt myself about what to write, how to write, and usually seen examples or seek help before I start writing, but after

The biggest obstacle that stands between me and my writing is me. I schedule my writing time, but find I'm a better writer when I am writing in a flow versus in a time crunch. My thoughts are natural and free flowing when they are not rushed. I understand that when I am paid to write, and deadlines loom, I need to maintain a schedule. For me, writing isn't a hobby or a pastime, it’s a necessity. It’s how I survive.

My writing skills are decent, if I take the time to fully process my thoughts. When it is a timed assignment or test, my skills go right out the window, I concentrate more on answering the prompt rather than the grammar, punctuation, or structure. It’s like a jumbled mess of writing filled with lots of errors. When I’m writing my main goals are to answer the prompt, have good structure, and no grammatical or punctuation errors. These goals sometimes get in the way of me expressing myself freely; if a sentence doesn’t flow right with rest of the paragraph, I will re-examine my paragraph or paper to see if I can conjure up a sentence to finish out my paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph. Another example is if I feel like I don’t

I believe that life is a learning experience and being able to recognize our own strengths and weaknesses can help us become better individuals in anything we choose to do, whether it is positive abilities and skills that can help achieve our goals or negative personal areas that need improvement. Knowing yourself and what you can do, can help you recognize and overcome your weaknesses.

One of my weaker points as a writer is my time management. Managing time throughout the writing process is critical and necessary for a well-written paper. There are times where I have rushed a draft of a paper while skipping fundamental steps of the writing process. This is very clear when I go back and read over my first draft. Lack of time management has sometimes led me to make very noticeable and fixable errors all throughout papers. Most of this is due to a mix of procrastination outside of writing and being busy. Time management is an important skill to work on as there are many benefits that come from spending more time in the writing process. It would help not to rush when writing as I would be able to produce fewer mistakes and better, better thought out ideas.