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Reflective Essay: The Strength Of My Writing

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Growing up I have always enjoyed writing but I admit I was not the best writer in terms of grammatical errors, sentence fluency, and coming up with a thesis/claim. However, those did not stop me as a writer on my own terms. I think that my strength is creative writing because there is no guidelines to follow allowing me to write the way I want without penalty like this semester’s creative research assignment. Given that assignment I was able to write about a subject I want to write about, but at the same time challenging me to incorporate research into it allowing me to gain a new perspective on how the two can be used together to create a bigger picture. Given that my strength is creative writing, my weakness has to be writing prompts assigned by teachers because I always get stuck on something during the process of it like the research part and actually writing everything out. I find that I have the tendency to spend a lot of time on just wording my sentences which can be quite time consuming. I want to be able to just keep writing until I’m finished then come back and revise everything but every so often I find myself re-reading a part again to find ways to perfect it. It is …show more content…

It was my first time taking ENGL 2030 and the professor gave us an assignment the first day that would essentially lead us to our paper at the end of the semester. It was just a simple task of writing a story from our own life. I did not know how I got a D on it, but I did and when I asked for feedbacks the professor simply just said the story seemed like it ended too quick and I would not be able to elaborate more on it. I would have been okay with the D if I had numerous of things to fix allowing me to actually set a goal for myself but it seemed like being in that class I was not going to grow as a writer so I withdrew from

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