The Weaknesses Of My Writing

“This year in English Comp 1, we will be writing three big papers. The last paper will end up being 2000 words,” says Ms. Garth on the first day of school. Being only a Junior in High School, I wanted to drop out then. The only thing going through my mind was, “Is this woman crazy?” At the time, I did not believe I would be able to write a paper with 300 words nevertheless 2000. I had never written a paper before. Even Though I was stressed out 95% of the time, I learned that just as I had strengths in writing, I also had weaknesses. My strengths were knowing my audience, getting my assignments done when needed, and telling both sides of the story while my weaknesses were topic sentences, getting my paper started, and transitions throughout …show more content…
During Comp one, one of our big papers was an argumentative research paper. I had never written a research paper before, much less a argumentative paper before. Throughout the writing of this paper, I knew that to give my point of view, I also had to give the other side of the story. In this paper, I wrote about being against abortion. Giving the other side of the story was hard for me because I did not believe in abortion. Even Though it was hard, I turned out being pretty good at giving both sides. I also learned that my favorite type of writing is argumentative because I love giving my input, I love telling my side of the story. I could relate to this type of writing because I love arguing with my friends and classmates because I want to have my say in the situation. I want to give my advice to the …show more content…
When reading or hearing the prompt I have to write about, I can never think of an outline, or an introduction to start my paper with. Once I finally can think of a topic to start writing about, I can go. For example, our second big paper was a research paper, and we had to write about a recent major disaster. I had no idea; nothing came to my mind on what to write about. It took me a total of two days to finally decide on a topic. I wrote about the effects of 9/11. After finally finding a topic to write about, I realized that writing this paper was not going to be as easy as I thought. There was a lot of research I had to look up and while reading the research, I discovered a lot of things my Uncle went through being in the army. I discovered things he would never talk about with his family. I believe he was trying to protect us from realizing what this world has come