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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Blog 9: Analysis of your Writing

 I feel as a writer I am good at developing well written material that is lengthy and is filled with detail but l struggle (and have struggled) with how much of my opinion is appropriate in my writings. When I think of my strengths, I can honestly say that my word choice is one of my better qualities when it comes to my writing. Until this point, my word choice has allowed my writing to flow ten times better being that one of my weaknesses happens to be that when i try to elaborate on an idea or topic, I go on a tangine because theres so many points i want to address and i often find it hard to shorten in it so it comes off to the reader that i misunderstood the assignment. Another one of my strengths is that i feel I’m good at critiquing my own writing and seeing how I can improve it whether it be correcting grammar or seeing if I could improve in my topic sentences. I believe one of my biggest weakness are my introduction paragraph. I find it the most difficult to write an intro that intriguing to the reader and is directed to the proper audience. Once I finally come up with a well developed intro, it makes it that much easier to make a very goof conclusion which I believe I do well in.
This semester, I learned about downshifting. I did not take to the seriousness of this lesson, but as I reflect on my writing now, that is something I question the most and keeping these guidelines in mind will help me to simplify my thoughts in my future writings whether it be for class or just in general.  I also learned that writing outlines saves me a whole lot of time and headaches when writing essays. Time limits always worry me when I have an assignment due and the best thing for my is to always do an outline. It helps me so much with my organization and allows me to see what points I have to work on. Because of this lesson earlier on, I was able to stay consistent with my writing it that sense.
For English 102, I feel I will have to work on how to do a works cited page. In essay three, I struggled most with this because I was not sure where to credit works and not plagiarized. If there is one thing I wished we would have practiced more it would be that topic. What I enjoyed the most about English 101 was reflecting on different works that were so very different (some being text and others being movies) and all having similar, common themes. I feel that by doing this, we prepared us to brainstorm and not be so narrow minded to what seems obvious for example characters having that same characteristics (things of that nature). I believe the most helpful thing about class was doing the blogs. By doing the blogs I felt more comfortable overtime to give my opinion rather just answer the questions given to us and I got to read others opinions on the same topic in order to compare. There was no lesson or discussion I felt was less important than the last in English 101 and I feel comfortable moving forward as a writer after taking this class. 

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