My Weakness Of Writing

In four months, I have endured writing four essays and an annotated bibliography. I squirmed in my seat each time Professor Longoria passed back the class’ purple folders containing our graded essays. Seeing red marks on my essays could either mean that I did a flawless job or I may have been guilty of a few comma splices and contractions. Nevertheless, my strengths lie in my use of vocabulary and organization of the essays. However, I tend to be weaker in my use of grammar and topic sentences. Although these weaknesses proved a challenge to overcome during the semester, they have changed my perspective on persuasive writing. With regard to my strengths in writing, vocabulary and use of language are where I am especially confident. I incorporated the vocabulary into my sentence structures such as in one of the paragraphs in essay 3, I state that “Asian parents have cultivated their children to be smarter, nurturing their attitude” (“The Demographics of Asian Americans: Why are they Smart” 2). My exploit of the vocabulary can be said in simpler terms such as Asian parents have made their kids smart or parents have encouraged their children to be smarter. From my first essay, my use of language has grown better in class with the help of Professor Longoria leaving …show more content…
I tend to get muddled with my words and make awkward sentences that complement onto my grammar that I struggle with as well. My transitions turn into oddly worded sentences that make the readers questions what I even wrote about in the paragraph. For example, “from the beginning” was stated and made my essay sound strange (“The Reality of Gaming: The Benefits of Video Games” 1). My transitions seemed out of place in my essays that caused it be perplexing and misinterpreted into a different idea. Reading the OWL could be beneficial for my writing and its transitions that help improve the errors of my