A weakness that I have is that I do not know how to say no to individuals that ask me for help since I love to help people. It is important that I learn to say no when helping others gets in the way of me accomplishing my tasks. It is important that I do both, but not when I run the risk of not meeting my deadlines and me staying late hours after work to get my work done. It has not been an easy task saying no, but I am learning to be okay with saying no because it is important that it does not interfere with my responsibilities.…
The first time, I enrolled in this class, I felt excited knowing this class would help on my grammar, so I can become a better writer. My first thought that cross my mind was this was going to be easy and it was. My last experienced with writing and English was okay because I mainly get a B or a C, but rarely I would get an A. I always been having trouble with grammars. My high school English teachers taught us about grammars and how to become a better writer. It was similar to what you had taught us in class because we always learned about grammar out of a book and we got tested after we been practice.…
Since I was a little girl, I have always loved writing. Although, I admit that I have never been very good at explaining things. Writer’s Block has always been my most immense struggle when it comes to writing so I guess you could say that writing is a painful and enjoyable experience. I have learned that once I get past the writer’s block, there is no stopping me.…
What are your writing strengths and weaknesses? To be quite honest, I'm not too sure about my writing strengths, but I am aware of many weaknesses. Writing tends to stress me out a bit and I don't know why. It probably stems from some traumatic incident in my childhood.…
I have learned about my writing process that I like to be creative when I write. I also like my essays to be organize before I write, so I know exactly what to write about. I believe I am strongest at freestyle writing. I like to jump in and just start writing. Even if I don’t always know what to write, I can usually come up with something.…
As for any writer knowing your strengths is very important. Your strengths can really help you stick out of the crowd and have the reader wanting more. Being aware of your flaws can improve the quality of your paper. One way to identify your strengths is by keeping a journal and writing frequently. Some of my strengths as a writer is I can visualize and give good details.…
I didn’t know what I was in for after that day. A writer’s key experiences is what makes them different from other writers and is crucial to their growth as a writer. The writing I composed in Mrs. Heningburg’s class was central to my development as a writer because it made me more confident in my writing and made me more aware of others reading my work as a writer. After hearing my last writing assignment's result in the class, I started expecting a high scoring on my writing works. The compliment about my essay from my sixth-grade teacher changed me, so let's start from the beginning.…
As a writer , I’ve learned that writing has to do with learning as one goes. My strengths in writing is painting a picture for the reader and giving them a chance to understand my style of writing. Also, Allowing the reader to pick out the important parts easy without struggling to understand. I’m really good at getting my point across without beating around the bush. In EN099, Ive also seen improvement with my writing.…
Whether we know it or not in this modern society we are writers everyday of our lives. These interactions shape not only how we communicate but how we write as well. Personally, I have been shaped by the influence of both other writers I have known and those I have only read the creations of. Those same influences contributed to both my writing style in the classroom and to my identity as a writer. I spent a lot of my childhood with my nose deep in fiction novels at near by libraries.…
When I was younger, I would eat up books faster than I got them. I’d frequently been caught reading books in the zaniest of places. I remember wanting to try writing, although I could never fully convey the words in my mind onto paper. Every once in a blue moon when I was able to; only I could understand what I wrote. It had fascinated me, and honestly frustrated me, that people could write these whimsical and arcane books that I’d held onto like a mother to her child.…
I have many weaknesses and strengths as a writer. For strengths, I am almost always professional in all of my writings, both academic and creative. Specifically, my writing is way different from the way I speak. I am so used to writing professionally that, even when I am just writing for myself, I still use sophisticated words. In addition, another strength that I have is that I am always trying to find ways to come up with deep analysis for certain pieces of evidence.…
On the other hand, I also have a couple weaknesses. I find it hard to start writing about topics that I know nothing about. I just sit and stare at the empty page or computer screen feeling so unaccomplished. Another weakness I have is that I sometimes can’t get my message out clear enough so when someone tries to read my work they might get confused in certain parts. My own experiences led me to believing my strengths and weaknesses as a writer.…
Whenever I inform someone that I am currently taking this course, there is a stale, predictable response I invariably receive. “Why? Did you forget to get your extra language credit?” to which I would swiftly reply, “no, I took it because I want to improve my writing”. I ensured I received the necessary credits in those three special categories a long time ago, by fulfilling the requirement in grade 10.…
Who doesn’t struggle with writing? I know I always have struggled with writing, for the longest time I didn’t even really understand the differences in sentences, and it is something that’s still confuses me a little bit. To be completely honest I sometimes procrastinate longer than I should when it comes to writing, so I don’t always review the finished product the way I should. Life gets in the way occasionally, and I attempt to convince myself that I have plenty of time to finish they assignment. This particularly gave me problems in high school.…
PORTFOLIO FINAL ASSESMENT Self-Knowledge Through the semester my understanding of writing improved, when the semester started I felt like I was all over the place in my writing, there was no structure. But, with the help of Dr. St. Michel, I have learned different approaches making my writing more organized. I feel like I have improved my writing skills over the semester, however that information should have been learned in high school. I know I will need to improve my writing skills since many jobs require it, some employers even use that as a standard for hiring like Kyle Wiens talks about in the article I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar.…