Reflective Essay: My Strengths As A Writer

I believe that strengths as a writer are that I have excellent ideas on what to write my paper about. When it comes to how to correctly structure my paper that’s where I begin to mess up. A lot has to do with procrastination, waiting till the next day or the day the paper is due to turn it in. My laziness and procrastination had a lot to do with my overall grade. That’s when I begin to stress and just put things together to just at least turn the paper in. I know that writing has not been one of my strengths for a while. This could have something to do with the type of English teachers I have had previously over my high career. I don’t think they well pre-pared me for college essays and how to construct them correctly to the actually meet my professor’s standards. I figured I was an excellent writer because of my previous English grades and previous grades on essays. From viewing my grade from midterms and receiving back the paper I have turned in, showing that I have yet to pass one single paper. A reason to this could be that I begin …show more content…
I loved the videos we watched in class. I thought that the videos Professor Brevik showed us were amazing and very interesting. Maybe because I am more of a visual learner than a kinesthetic and audio learner. I loved that they were in different languages but the fact that I could still understand what was going on was the best part. The papers were the toughest part of the class to me. I don’t really blame Professor Brevik for anything as to why I’m failing his class when a lot of it had to do with me as a student. This class did not change my outlook on the writing process because the writing process has not changed since I learned how to write. I strongly dislike that we had multiple papers do with not much of an understanding. I kind of feel like if I knew what to write about and how to correctly construct it I would receive excellent grades on