Strengths and Challenges

    Throughout the past two semesters, I feel as if my writing has evolved significantly. I now understand the different parts of formal writing genres, such as literary analysis, personal narrative, and research papers. My strengths as a writer are word choice, conventions, and comprehending the the format of a paper. These three strengths come easily to me, although it took a lot of determination and practice to achieve. My vocabulary is something I always try to put an effort in to make the paper  more engaging and fun to read. Although, I still make some mistakes in conventions, I am knowledgable in spelling and grammar. For example, in the simplest tasks like study guides and worksheets I always try to focus on spelling and grammar to achieve the goals I aim towards in not making simple grammatical mistakes. My final strength is comprehending the basic format of a paper. Organization is key in papers, so making sure I have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion is an extra step I take in writing papers.
     Some of my weaknesses are sentence fluency and proofreading. I need to work on creating a variety of different sentence structures. Syntax in my writing is not my strongest suit, therefore I know I need to keep practicing it. Sentence fluency is so important in good writing because it helps the reader follow what you are trying to get across and of course, make it more exciting to read. All papers require multiple acts of proofreading. This is a difficulty for me because after I write the paper, I normally procrastinate going back and fixing grammatical mistakes, structural problems, etc. I always struggle to catch errors in my own writing because I tend to overlook them. Overall, knowing my strengths and weaknesses is helpful in writing papers because I know what I need to take extra time on to get my paper to the best it can be.