Weaknesses In Writing

This memorandum offers insight about writing in the business world and the different challenges people face. I took a professional out to lunch to conduct an interview on the writing challenges he faces in his career.

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.

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

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

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.

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

After carefully looking over my past papers I have come up with my strengths and more importantly, my weaknesses. My strengths are constant: picking strong words, having an in-depth thesis, and having a great thesis. My weaknesses, however, change with each paper, but generally include not enough explanations, too much passive voice, not enough words per sentence, and being redundant. On average, I have four items that I did not explain well enough. I believe that I do not explain somethings enough, because either I foolishly think that the average person would know that information or am so focused on were the paper is going that I forget to explain enough. For my passive use, I found that my average percent

The problems with the 5-paragraph writing is the same problems that the author was praising. The problems with this writing is that firstly, the three subtopics do give you a limited way of thinking. You can only give three points, it makes your mind not willing to go in depth about the topic at hand, it doesn't let your brain wander. Then if you want to write more about one of the subpoints, you can’t because you're only allowing yourself 5 paragraphs to write everything. Another thing that the author mentioned was that he writes this way for all his essays, yet gets good grades on it. That might be true, but you’re never going to grow as a writer, your writing is mediocre. You’re brain is trained on only having 5 paragraphs, that makes your

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

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.

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.

When I first started the class I was struggling a lot. Since English is my second language, I had many stressful moments that made me think about dropping my classes. But when I thought about my future, I just kept studying even harder, waiting for my performance to improve. As a result, I felt like every time I wrote an essay, it got easier, which tells me that I’m on the right path. In addition, this class has helped me improve my grammar, taught me an important life lesson about sticking on my goal and helped me to enhance my computer skills

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.

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.