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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…

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