Weaknesses, Strengths and Goals

      

     Throughout my life my weaknesses in writing have always been grammar errors. For example, I am not really sure how to structure certain sentences and how to properly use past and present tenses. This has held me back from achieving higher skill levels in writing. Another weakness in my writing is trying to write about a topic that is hard for me. When I am faced with a difficult topic to write about I struggle coming up with thoughts and ideas to write about. The most difficult thing for me to do when writing is critical thinking. This is something I've always struggled with and hope to improve in. 

      My strengths in writing consist of free writing, constant flow of thoughts and ideas and choosing a good topic to write about. I find it easy and relaxing to just free write about whatever is on your mind, by doing this i feel like it improves a person's ability to have a consistent flow of thoughts when writing. If i am writing about something I'm really interested in the work I do will be much better and it will be easier to gather ideas. 

     My Goals for this semester in this class are to improve on this skills I lack and to expand my knowledge of writing. By doing this it will not only help me in this class but also in all my other classes. I know my writing is not perfect and needs a lot of work but I am willing to do what i need in order to be successful. The most important goal I hope to learn from this class is how to perfectly write a college level essay so that i will further succeed in writing all of my other essays for other classes. Moreover, in order to accomplish all of this I need to stay on top my work and get it done.

     

Revised writing strengths and weaknesses

         In life all writers have strengths and weaknesses, whether your a professional or an amateur. Some people have more strengths then weaknesses while others have more weaknesses then strengths. When writing, I tend to come up with a strong thesis statement and get my thoughts out but I have no organization or detail and I struggle with the length.
       When writing a paper people have to realize there are different types of writing. Depending upon what type of writing it is, my strengths or weaknesses are magnified. For example, in free writing I can get my ideas down on the paper no matter what order they go in.  In formal writing its hard for me to get my point across or even get to the point. Sometimes I tend to put useless information into a paper or go on and on about nothing.
       On the other hand, I can come up with strong thesis statements. I know how to state my opinion or position in the beginning, but its hard to support it though the entire paper. I've been told I don't use enough detail which may be the reason I have a hard time completing the assigned amount to write. An example of this is when I'm assigned something like a ten page research paper. I don't have enough information about the topic to fill up ten pages. I feel like I just run out of things to say especially if I'm not passionate about the topic or know little to nothing about it.
        With all this being said, I would like to become a better writer or at least lessen some of my writing weaknesses. First, I would definitely want to make my writing interesting. I want the readers to enjoy my writing and be eager to read more papers I write. I am a creative person and I like doodling or decorating things. However, I don't know yet how to transfer that creativity to my writing. Also I would like to become a faster writer, I tend to take longer to complete a paper than the average student. Along with writing faster I would like to get better at organizing my essays and making it lengthier. Throughout this semester and or school year I hope to accomplish all of these goals and become a decent writer.
     

Revised - Strengths, Weaknesses and Four Goals

     I believe writers are similar to the artists. Artists put their thoughts and ideas in to their drawings to the audience can decipher artist's intention. Similarly, writers lead the readers into his/her mind where the reader can relate, agree or disagree with the writer's thoughts and analyze them.

     My art teacher used to say, “If you can draw things from life -and most importantly- design as well as plan a project out of your imagination, you are an artist.” I believe same applies to being a writer. When you give someone a pen and a piece of paper, as artists, writers put their imagination into words. If they leave the reader with ideas that challenges their conception, then the individual is a captivating writer.

     I do not believe that I am a good writer, however, I do believe that I am a decent artist. Currently, I do not enjoy writing as much as I enjoy reading or drawing, but I do wish to get to love it one day. Nevertheless, if you love something you will do your best to be good at it. Therefore, throughout this course, I would like to become a captivating writer where I can leave the readers with thoughts that help them confront their ideas. To become such writer, I believe I have to work on my fundamental skills such as: grammar, punctuation, structure, organization, and revision.

Revised: Strengths, Weakness, & Goals

 

When I was seven, I started reading chapter books. When I got into middle school, I started writing stories of my own. I think because of this, my strength in English is to easily get ideas and know what I want to talk about. I never really had a problem brainstorming what I wanted to write about for an essay, research paper, or leisure writing. To contrast this, my weakness is expanding my ideas.

I am good at getting the main point across, but fail when it comes to elaborating my points. This is okay if I, for instance, was just writing a simple five paragraph essay, but when I have to write something over two pages, I get stuck. I know what I am and should write, but how do I go beyond that to fit that page requirement? I know that in college there will be a lot of papers due that are way over two pages and I want to be able to write them.

There are four goals I hope to achieve by the time I am finished with this English class. The first is knowing exactly where to put commas. The root of this problem is me trying to identify dependent and independent clauses. I think a lot of people have a problem with this. It seems like a simple thing everyone should know but do not.

My second goal is to learn how to write an interesting introductory paragraph. I want to learn how to write something that hooks the readers hopefully by the end of the first sentence.

The third goal is to know how to make my work look professional. In my senior year of high school my English teacher told me my writing was 'childish'. I assume it is because I do not have an advance vocabulary as someone at my level should have.

The final goal I want to achieve is writing a conclusion without restating what I already went over. I still do fully understand what exactly I should include in my conclusion paragraph if we are not necessarily summarizing what we stated previously.

In all, I love writing, but sometimes it can be a little difficult for me. By the end of the semester I want to be able to smoothly write a paper without worrying about repeating facts I already stated. I want to be able to leave this English class with the skills necessary to help me with the rest of my classes here at Loyola.

Revised: Friday Night lights

When I think of myself as a writer I think of myself as a quarterback.
I think of myself that way because I feel I am the leader of my thoughts(team) and I always trying to get better.

The pen is the football and the words are my teammates. 

For this upcoming season, I have been evaluating my skills to try to get better. 

I understand my strengths which are not technical but creative. 

I can create ideas that are fascinating and I write with a passion that engages you.

But I also know my weaknesses. 

I am not a great technical writer. 

Just like there are some quarterbacks who can throw ugly spirals but still throw a touchdown.

 I can write lengthy good essays but the commas, periods, and all other sort of things may be out place or missing.

 My essays may be good enough to get by but they’re not highlight material just yet.

So for this upcoming semester after evaluating myself, I have set some goals. 

All are reachable if I put in  the time an effort that I feel is necessary to succeed.
My first goal is to find the drive within me to say that I can get better and to never give up just because I think it might be a little hard.
My next goal is to put in the time and not be lazy.
In football the quarterback is the first guy in the gym and the last guy to leave.
That has to be me. I must continue write rewrites until I feel I can rewrite no more.
My next goal is to let my imagination fly.
I want to be creative as possible, and to let all my imagination out.
In football the offense is always trying to take what the defense gives them and show them something new and surprising to make a big play.
I am always trying to do that.
I never want to do something boring with a paper.
I am always trying to do whats not expected of me in various awesome ways.
My last goal but one of my most important ones.
Get help whenever I need it.
Even as the quarterback of my writing, I am still part of a team and a team needs coaching.
Writing is all part of a process which has many different layers.
Thinking I can do it all by myself is the wrong idea to have. I need believe in help if I am to succeed.
My writing isn't perfect at all. So I know I need the help and I will seek it.

Blog Revision: Strengths and Weaknesses

My friends are excellent writers. They both know what to say, use correct grammar, and have excellent structure to their essays. My friends and I are very different. Expressing their thoughts on paper comes naturally to them, but it takes a little more thought for me. My writing shows that researching information is a definite strength, but I lack organization and grammar skills, as well as a clear expression of what I want to say. My goal in writing is to just be confident in my writing.

When it comes to writing strengths I feel I am better with knowing what information I want to say. I can research all day because I am determined to make sure what I say is correct information. I do not want to give someone the wrong information because that makes me look bad. I would never want someone to pass down bad advice or tell me a lie. The least I can do is make sure the information I give out is backed up with evidence or proof.

A weakness I am definitely aware of are my organization skills. I know what I want to say in my papers, but I do not know when the correct moment to say something is. My thoughts become scattered which makes it difficult to get A's on the papers I write for school. I am afraid of getting someone confused or thrown off because my paper is unorganized. During Summer Bridge at Loyola my thoughts were scattered everywhere. I had all the information, but it just did not flow. Once something popped in my head I wrote it down no matter what I was talking about before. Also, my grammar skills need work. Grammar skills, for me, are hard to understand. During the years at my high school, Chapelle, I never actually understood when it is truly appropriate to use a comma. I sometimes use commas whenever I feel there is a pause, which is not necessarily right. In addition, I want to be able to do a better job of expressing what I want to say. I know what I want to say in my thoughts, but my thoughts sometimes do not make sense on paper. The work either does not make sense or it does not sound interesting. Most of the time my work sounds very straight forward, and I would like to learn how to pull a reader in.

My goal is that I wish to just be a better writer and feel prepared for college writing. I want to have all my weaknesses to become strengths. If I were able to change my weaknesses to strengths, I would feel safe and confident. I am scared that I am not up to par, and I will fail my essays or easy writing assignments. I have heard so many scary stories from my college friends of writing essays in college or on finals. Obviously, their words are not helping me stay calm. I just need help strengthening my basic knowledge so that I can become a better writer.

I want to be able to put my mind at ease with the help of this class. Starting with the basics of writing is not boring or stupid to me. This course, I feel, will help me calm down enough to organize my thoughts, correct my grammar usage, and just be at ease when I write. I do not think a little bit of review could hurt anyone.

Revised Blog: Lionel J. Scott's Strengths, Weaknesses, & Goals in Writing

     I am a disciplined, but vague writer. I write with thought - that's a strength; in turn, writing within a time limit slows me down, way down, which is a weakness of mine. Usually, creativity and clarity is present in my writing when I do have time to think while writing. Another problem I have is writing choppy sentences. Sometimes repetition is also apparent in my writing, probably due to laziness or exhaustion; for instance, two paragraphs in my senior high school paper covered two of the same issues. Fortunately, I realized this, in my final draft of my paper included those two paragraphs covering two different unique issues; consider attention-to-detail a strength he attributes to his writing.

     

     There are four goals I would like to accomplish in writing. I desperately want to accomplish writing with confidence. I want to stop worrying about what looks or is right in my writing, and be concerned with revision afterwards. Another goal I consider accomplishing is completing this course with at least a basic understanding of the writing techniques that will be presented through this course. Brainstorming is something I feel the need to get used to, but don't necessarily want to, because I prefer just going straight into the full-body portion of writing, as I believe that brainstorming isn't necessary for me. One last goal I'd like to accomplish is expanding my vocabulary so I can add more clarity to my writing and avoid repetition... I believe myself still on a path to finding out who I am as a writer and that my time in this course will help me exploit skills that are for the better in my writing, and habits in my writing that I may want to capitalize on.

Revised: Strengths, Weaknesses and goals

  Some of my strengths in writing are to think of ideas and brainstorm. Once I get interested and understand a topic, I can talk about it a lot. For example, I used to write poems because it was my ability to convey my ideas creatively. I enjoyed writing them because it was free writing for myself and I did not have to worry about someone else reading them. One of my second strengths is that I understand grammar and punctuation rules.

  However, when I encounter a topic that is difficult to understand, I have difficulty developing the ideas I need to write about. Often I have trouble understanding a topic because Spanish is my first language. Because English is not my first language, I tend to write informally. I usually write as if I were speaking because that is the way I learned English.

  One of my goals for this class and for myself is to learn how to write formally by reading formal English. I also want to improve my organization by planning what I am going to write about. Instead of writing the first things that comes to my mind, I need to focus on the point of what I am writing about.

Revised: Learning to Write Right

My writing strengths are my broad imagination and my ability to notice small details. I am good at coming up with big ideas for many topics, and approaching tasks from many different perspectives. However, when I feel under pressure, I have difficulty expressing myself because I get nervous which prevents me from writing.

            

The other thing that I am not very proud of is getting distracted so easly, because I can see that the things in the normal world that attracted me can be so incredibly surprising. Like when the news that something has happened a week ago, that can interest you. A sad news that you just heard, can also be a distraction. Even the light that flashes in your cellphone calling you to answer a text. I notice this even if a paper moves. That is why getting distracted is a horrible curse, especially when I am trying to find out the most interesting of things.

My goal is to be able to find a way to easily express my self in writing, that way I can be able to project my ideas in a different perspective. Enabling my mind to wander to other worlds.