Personal Narrative: My Primary Strengths As A Writer

During this spring semester, I have grown in many ways as a writer, and a student. I have started to realize, and accept the flaws that I have created in my writing. In the past, I never looked into my writings and saw my problems, and if I did, I did not accept that they were problems. In my writing pieces in the past, I was very hard-headed about what I thought was correct versus what was actually correct. I have also become More familiar with different formatting options on Microsoft Word to create a more professional piece or writing. However, figuring out all the parts of writing and making them work together is the most difficult part of writing.

In my first “Who I am as a Writer” paper I stated how one of the areas that I needed to improve was writing. I went into more depth talking about how my writing is not descriptive enough and how I cannot grab the reader's attention. Even though I still need to continue making improvements, I have gotten better in both of these aspects. Compared to my papers in high school my introduction paragraphs have improved.

When I first arrived to the United States I did not know how to read, write or comprehend the English language. It was frustrating and sad to not be able to communicate with my classmates. I made it my goal to learn to read, write, and comprehend the language which would help me progress not only in my education but socially as well. I am currently working towards improving my reading, and writing skills.

As an incoming freshmen my strengths as a writer are a wide vocabulary , word usage, and writing argumentative essays. I feel with having strength in those areas allows me to be a successful write, with success comes some weakness. My weaknesses are grammar, punctuation, spelling ,and thesis statements. I have a hard time trying to depict what is the best punctuation when writing. All throughout grade school and high school I've always been an underachiever in spelling. English and writing are my least strongest subjects. I floundered in high school with these subjects. In my personal opinion I don't think my high school prepared us well enough for writing on the college level.  I think that the areas that I struggle are very basic levels of

My current strengths according to the LifeStyle Management Health Risk Inventory, is that I am punctual in seeing a primary care provider, whom I have seen in the past two years, it was suggested that it is of vital importance to do so, as a PCP can provide helpful information about my health and how I can improve any health problems I may have. Another strength of mine is that I get the flu shot on a regular basis, it is important to do so, as the flu virus does not spread to those who I am around and protects me from the virus. According to the LifeStyle Management Health Risk Inventory, my BMI is 21.03, which puts me in the healthy weight bracket, maintaining my weight in a healthy range will lower my risk for heart disease, cancer and other

One of my strengths as a writer is when I start to write I get into a writing flow, it is when someone's thoughts and writing feel like they are completely in sync as they write, and I am sure that almost everyone gets into a flow when they get focused enough. The problem for me is getting into that writing flow in the first place. I am talking about the common writer's block; also, another weakness that I found when I was in English N50 is that I have a particularly hard time writing about myself. I did improve over the course, but I still struggle. The last skill that I exceeded in my last English class is proofreading other classmates work, and that was either because I truly am good at proofreading, or it was because there was a lot of

Over the year I have made a tremendous amount of progress as a writer. I have improved my grammar and reduced the amount of run-on sentences in my writings. Throughout the year my writings have made a lot of improvement and my grades throughout the year reflect this well. In the beginning of the year my writings were very choppy or unorganized and didn’t flow very well but now they have structure and are very detailed. I have gone from getting an h5 on my first writing to a h8-9. This year, I have learned to make corrections, do extra research, and take time on my writings or essays. My writings this year show my strengths, weaknesses, growth and made me set goals for next year.

One of my strengths when I do a paper, is that I am full of ideas, this also plays onto my weaknesses but I’ll get back to that later, I have no problem with coming up with a thesis, and seems to never run out of material, in my head. Another strength that I have is thoroughly reading all material that is handed to me and being able to use my observations skills to pick up key words and mains ideas quickly. I know that a definite strength I have is that I am more of a creative writer, I can write up stories and poetry without losing a single beat.

My strength as a writer I have that potential on convincing the reader clearly by providing strong reasons to support my argument. When It comes to persuading someone I can talk forever about the topic and bring their attention toward me. It’s much easier for me to make the person feel satisfied. At the same time, I’m capable of generating ideas so that I don’t lose the communication with the person I am talking with. It has been a habit for me that I can generate lots of ideas and able to bring some

I have always been a fan of reading good writing, whether it be in an informative article or good novel. I have often wished to be able to write in a way that would make other people feel the way I feel, captivated while reading a well put together piece. Nevertheless, I have find the older I get the more self-conscious I become about my writing and/or sharing my ideas for that matter.

As a writer, I have strengths and weaknesses. I am a really creative writer, and I have really great typing skills. I will continue to read a lot of fiction books to keep that creativity. My weakness is that I am not so good at writing nonfiction-type, papers. To fix that, I will read more books that are nonfiction, so I understand how they are written.

I believe one of my personal strengths are communication skills and willingness to interact socially with others on a professional level. Gaining 4 years of experience in customer service, while working as a bartender, was a great journey for me to become a self-confident and a relaxed individual when talking with other people. Due to the nature of the job, it was often necessary to interact with demanding customers, who were under the influence of alcohol or were performing aggressive behaviours. I had an opportunity to develop problem solving and stress management skills, and to learn acting patient and calm in uncomfortable situations. During busy shifts, in order to provide a smooth and a high standard customer service, it was necessary

My future goals as a reader/writer is to improve I'm both subjects as time passes. Each year I want to become more proficient so as the years pass I will excel in reading and writing. These goals are essential to myself and my academics for if I’m proficient in reading and writing maybe I can get a good job. Academically, I will be prepared for any next level education and I won't have to struggle to catch up. By improving these subjects as each year passes it will help me for I won't have to worry about the subjects because I know that it will be my strong point. I believer I will need all the key points in English and writing in order to have academic and personal success.

The biggest point of growth in my writing only came once I started college, before that I only wrote to satisfy teachers and to answer whatever questions they wanted answered. I wasn’t developing habits of mind , which I’m sure was the intent of those teachers, and looking back I never really questioned, sought out anything, or thought of my writing as a conversation between me and my audience. My writing at best was the farthest thing from complex because to me it wasn’t the process it was meant to be, but just another assignment with limitations I was forced to do. If my high school self could only imagine what the freedom and lessons college writing would bring, I probably would have seen my assignments in a less oppressive light.

Instead of allowing the negative effects to impact my academic achievements, I have to overcome my weaknesses in writing and improve my English skills. I will develop a strategy that leads me to