What Are The Weaknesses Of My Writing

Writing is still not exactly my strong suit. I want to be a good writer, so I am reflecting on how I have done thus far. My writing still has several weaknesses that I undoubtedly want to improve, however, I also have many strengths. I would like to start with what I believe is my biggest weakness; my use of vague words. How often I overuse word the word “it” to start a sentence is actually quite ridiculous. Not only am I being vague and undescriptive; my overuse of that word is extremely repetitive. Unfortunately, that is not the only word that I am using excessively. I found myself writing the words “got” or “get” several times, usually right after the word “it”. Even though I have been told to stay away from the word “thing” I somehow could not stop myself from using it twice …show more content…
These have always been an issue for me as a writer. I often try to use transitions, but I sometimes change the tone of my story. I have the same problem with combining terms. My story will even become confusing to the reader due to the word choices I implement. Regrettably, I made a huge error while editing my reflection paper. While I was making a handful of last minute changes, I re-wrote the order of my thesis, and forgot to change the body of my paper to match the order. I also could have just tried to re-word my thesis without changing the order. Keeping the paragraphs in the same order of the thesis was something that I knew would make writing the paper easier, but I did not know that happened to be a rule of essay writing. With all that being said, I do have a few strengths. I did a great job with using MLA format and, my spacing looked good. Examples are important and according to my professor I did very well at providing lots of them throughout my first paper. Most importantly, I have so been told twice that I am great at writing a