Writing Qualities

My Writing Qualities

When done well, writing can take you to anyplace, anytime, without ever having to leave your couch. Writers can inspire, teach, and provide an escape for their readers. I hope that this class will help me improve my writing abilities, so that I can more easily prepare essays, and complete my assignments in a better timeframe. I am also eager to see if this class will help me improve my work on papers that I don't usually do well on, like research papers and essays about history.

One strength I feel I possess in my writing is my ability to express feeling and emotion. I have been keeping a journal since I was in elementary school, and feel that it has helped me in that area of my writing. Being able to write how I feel, or how I see others feeling, has helped me cope with a lot of dilemmas. I am hoping this course will improve my writing, and show me new ways to express feelings on paper.

Researching information for papers has always been en enjoyable experience for me, so I feel that this would be another strength of mine. I am very interested in learning new things, and sometimes wouldn't normally have a reason to learn about some of the different topics unless I had to for a class. Searching the Internet, going to the library, and reading magazines looking for information, and then putting all of my gathered I hope I can better my skills in gathering information in this class when we work on our research paper. Information together to make an informative paper is very rewarding for me. I always hope that someone else will read it, and gain an interest in something that they normally wouldn't. I am hoping to be able to use these skills on a research paper later in this class.

As far as weaknesses in my writing, I definitely feel that procrastination is a problem. I have gotten better in the past two years, but I always seem to put off the actual completion phase of the assignment until the last minute. Hopefully this class will help motivate me to start putting my paper together

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