My Writing Strengths

When I attended college for the first time, I was an excellent writer. My professors would read my writings out loud as a good example of what they expected from the rest of the class. As it pertains to my writing, I believe that my strengths are possessing an active vocabulary and the ability to transition sentences. In contrast, my weaknesses are run-on sentences and using passive voice quotes. During the writing process, I use a thesaurus to build my vocabulary which helps transition one sentence to another. On the other hand, I struggle on run-on sentences because I’m not confident in my punctuation choice when it comes to ending or continuing phrases.
From the feedback, I have received my writing struggle is the organization of paragraphs. Point being is …show more content…
Being a student of GCU I have the privilege of using the Writing Process located in the Student Success Center. Case in point this tool provides a walkthrough on how to write a college paper from beginning to end which includes how to formulate an essay properly. An additional resource I can use to improve my writing is a tool name Grammarly. This device helps with spelling errors, overused words, and incorrect prepositions which are most helpful in the weakness of my writing. Overall it is my belief that repetition is the key to strengthening my writing skills because once you create a habit of proper writing, it’s hard to regress to old habits.
In the past, I have written quite a few essays on my many different topics. As a student in school, my assignments consisted mostly of descriptive styles. While I attended college for the first time ten years ago, I wrote in the persuasive and expository style. Out of all the writing styles, I enjoy the narrative writing style the most. Throughout my life, I have written short stories for class, and I find the narrative style more useful to entertain readers compared to the other