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Strengths and Challenges

I feel that my strengths as a writer have significantly grown this year. Through writing different types of papers, I learned what my strengths and weaknesses were and what I enjoyed. I found that I was strong in writing personal narratives and blog posts which made me realize that I enjoyed creative writing. In these papers, I included strong word choice and voice, which included vivid detail and personality, originality, and passion. These aspects are important to these papers because they speak to the audience and make the reader interested in the paper.

After writing my literary analysis and research paper, I found I struggled with these styles of writing. I found my organization in these papers to be a challenge. This includes the structure of my paper, such as the order of events, and making my paragraphs flow together seamlessly. I also found it difficult to stimulate ideas for which direction I wanted to take these papers in. I eventually decided on ideas after I took time to strategize and brainstorm. Even though I still need to work on these areas of writing, I was successful in my efforts to focus on improving these in my papers. 

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  1. Ellie SMay 2, 2018 at 5:32 PM

    I am also fairly good at writing blog posts; they have improved my writing a lot this year. Also, I struggled with connecting paragraphs seamlessly as well. Nice post!

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  2. Anna KatherineMay 7, 2018 at 6:38 AM

    I think that we have very different strengths and weaknesses. I hate creative writing so the personal narrative wasn't that fun to write, but the literary analysis I really enjoyed writing. And I would consider organization one of my strengths. Good post!

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