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Self Evaluation Paper In my opinion, I am a good student with the willingness to learn. I have many strengths as a writer like formatting papers and have solid body paragraphs. I also have a few weakness like the length of my body paragraphs and my word choices when writing my conclusion. I still I have many things to work on to make my writing better, but the only way to get better is to practice. I have many strengths as a writer. I have always considered myself a person who pays attention to details which in the long run can be very helpful. One of those details that I payed attention to is how to format an MLA paper properly. I was taught from the beginning of my high school career how to format an MLA paper so it is now ingrained into …show more content…

However, this class has helped me refresh on how to make a thesis statement because eighth grade was a few years ago. An example of one of my thesis statements is “The use of technology and media has positively impacted the world because it has helped connect people together and with anything they could possibly want to know.” My teacher in eighth grade taught me that the introduction should briefly describe some of the points that I would cover in the following body paragraphs. One of the weaknesses I have as a writer is the formatting of my body paragraphs. I often make my body paragraphs extremely lengthy. My high school English teacher has never pointed that out as one of my weakness, so I just recently became aware of this problem. He actually wanted the class to have paragraphs that were pages long before switching to a new paragraph. Another one of my strengths is the content of my body paragraphs. I normally have solid body paragraphs that go more indepth and describe what I briefly mentioned in my introduction paragraph. I have learned from my many years of taking English class that the body paragraphs should give lots of details about the subject that the paper is talking about. I have gotten very good at making body paragraphs because when papers are very long I have to add more body

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