Personal Narrative: My Strengths In My Writing

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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. The words I would use in English paper a year ago , I’ve learned new words to replace them with and that has become a strength in my writing.
My weakest starts with being repetitive, I try not to . Another weakest is getting upset over criticism. When writing is meant to be revised and edited. At first I allowed myself to get upset

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