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Self-Reflective Essay The stronger area my writing is would be formatting and paraphrasing I would say this are my stronger areas right now because, I am still working in some of the other areas like the punctuation, putting sentences together. I have a hard time writing my papers because of English been my second language, for me is more difficult writing a paper and trying to put in my thought, or explain something that for me in Spanish is easy to do it but in is hard to translated in English. The reason I see this are my strengths is because, I do not see many comments and I do not get a high percentage of plagiarisms on my papers I really do think is a positive or a good point against me for doing a good job in my paper. I improve a …show more content…

Also need more words to help me improve in my English and writing my paper putting all my thoughts and knowing how to explain it and write it at the same time. I tend to repeat myself a lot I feel is because I think I did not explain myself and need to repeat it in order for the reader to understand me. My grammar is another area I need to improve and I think I did in this class but not as much; therefore is another area I need to work on I am starting to read more and sometimes when writing my paper I go back to my English grammar books and review if I punctuate my sentences the right way. My grammar is something I have struggle even in my native language which is Spanish and for my understanding and own experience Spanish is more difficult language. The most difficult part in Spanish is grammar this language uses the “ch”, “Ñ”; also we use “ `” in many words but it is still something that I have struggle knowing where to use what. Should I use the ` in this word or should use a comma after this other word sometime is too much for me. Many time I think” why do we need all of this” and when I am reading an article and I find something that is not punctuated the right way or they are not using the right words, I immediately become a English teacher I start to look at all the error and saying this do not sounds right

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