Weaknesses In Writing

As a writer one of my weaknesses is spelling. Grammar is a struggle I have when I write. A strength I have in writing is punctuation.

I believe my greatest weakness as a writer is that I am not very good at grammar and punctuation. When I was in high school, during my sophomore year my English teacher was not very good. She did a lot of punctuation and grammar lesions with us but most of the time she contradicted herself making things way more confusing than they really were. After that class I have

When I stop to think about the memory’s that I have made during my first semester of college; there are both good and bad pieces or times that present themselves. Often with many things there are gray areas, and writing would fall in there for me. I fortunately understand now that I have times where I can over look many of my writing flaws. Such as sentence structure! This by far was my biggest problem in this class, and I fully understand why. Personally I have times that will type up a paragraph and never notice the mistake. That is until someone points it out to me. It’s almost like my brain knows that something is wrong with it, but for some unknown reason it won’t register when I’m revising my paper. So as a writer I have realized that I need to take advantage of people around me and get their feedback on my essay’s; because

Throughout the course of this semester in AP Lang, my eyes have been opened to many of the weaknesses I never knew I had in writing. Coming into this semester, I had heard about the difficulty of this class, but was not unduly worried about not receiving an A; I have always considered myself as a competent if not strong writer. However, after failing to attain desired grades on several important essays, I was devastated, and realized that although I had mastered the basics of grammar and writing, there was still much for me to work on. Also, I did not understand that much of my grade in AP Lang would be determined by speaking in front of others, which is not my strong suit. What I have come to find is that writing essays containing all of the new information we have learned throughout the semester, such as requirements for different types of essays and good writing strategies, takes a lot of work, time, and thinking. Unfortunately, my procrastination caused me to only get done what had to be done instead of putting in the extra work and truly understanding everything.

I know that I still have room for improvement with my grammar and punctuation and it has actually surprised me how much room for improvement there is. Clearly I have picked up some bad habit throughout the years, or perhaps I never really had a good grasp of these skills to begin with. In high school, English was one of my strongest subjects and the realisation that I make grammatical errors that I cannot identify myself is a

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

One of my biggest weaknesses is just my lack of proper grammar and sentence structure in English. Many times I had subconsciously reverted to German or Arabic sentence structure and gotten words mixed up. One

The first weeks of class were easy to me because I enjoy reading and writing my thoughts down. So the handouts such as “group minds”, and “once more to the lake” were really intriguing to me. I feel that the class became hard for me when essays started rolling into the schedule. I was terrified about writing my first college paper because I never wrote papers in my high school English class so I was not sure about how good I wrote. I remember the first essay being a descriptive essay. I had no clue what I was doing or where to start, but that did not stop me from doing it because it was a challenge that appealed to my mind. I read the paper over 10 times just to make sure it was just right, and turned it in. When it was returned I was in shock about my grade because I did really well. Yet, there is always room for improvement.

I noticed that one of my weaknesses was rambling on and making my sentences either too long or too short. I fixed each one by taking words out and adding new ones to other sentences. Some of the sentences I wrote didn’t make a lot of sense, so I had to rearrange it or delete it.

Many miles away and already in Diagon Alley, a tall platinum-haired wizard in black robes stood with his arms crossed over his chest and was glaring at an equally tall yet rabbity-looking wizard with dark hair. Neither of the young men seemed to blink as several moments passed.

I’ve been trying to correct my bad writing habits for a while now and i’m slowly getting better at doing so. My level of procrastination has diminished greatly ever since my life has been showered with responsibility. I can’t exactly put homework off when I work all day and still try to find time for a social life. Another thing I’ve been working on is getting a little bit done at a time instead trying to do it all at once. When I received this assignment I started working on it that same day in advocacy and my office assistant class. Utilizing all my free time in certain classes to the more difficult assignments is a major goal of mine.. The only way to truly hone any of my skills is to use them consistently while constantly looking for

Writing proves daily to be a tool one can use in their own way to express themselves. Many teachers have their own approaches to teaching writing and not to say that they are not effective I just feel that if some people change their approach some of the problems I myself see can be changed by a change in the approach to teaching and assessing writing. Some issues I see are students not being exposed to different styles of writing, their writing assignments challenge their knowledge and remembrance instead of their analytical and critical thinking skills, and the way teachers assess writing. These problems are pretty I love writing and I have had good and bad experiences with teachers of writing.

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.

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.

An aspect that I often struggle with is proper punctuation. Truthfully, I do not know how to correctly use punctuation. When writing, I place punctuation by mimicking authors’ formats or by placing them where it feels right. This is present in all of my writing, but I am attempting to improve. Punctuation also plays a part in another weakness of mine, one that is most likely present within this essay. Since middle school, it was engrained in my mind that a good essay is a long essay, so I have a tendency for wordiness. To elongate an essay, I tend to add needless words and sentences. For example, in the rough draft of the Whole Process Essay, I added several unrelated occurrences to elongate the paragraphs. Although my essays were long and wordy, the professor commented on vagueness and unclearness within the whole process and practice essay. Sometimes, I disregard the fact that the reader might not know what it is I am writing about or the sentence makes perfect sense to me. The latter is the most common, I quickly read the sentence and it appears fine to me. Within the Whole Process Essay, another weakness was brought to my attention. I lack structure, a key element in effective writing. Within the same essay and a few others, I simply added what felt right, sometimes the result would be acceptable but in other instances, it was a long, jumbled mess.