My strengths as a writer includes brainstorming and imagination, quoting and paraphrasing, and telling stories. When it comes to brainstorming, I need to work on it, but I am getting the hang of it. I can feel myself improving at assignments that we have done to prepare for writing. I feel that I always have ideas to write about because of my striving imagination. For example, when writing my personal narrative, I had so many ideas that it was hard to find my topic. The next thing I am strong at is quoting and paraphrasing. Even though I can still do some work at this topic, I find that I am naturally good at this. The "Quote Sandwich" come naturally to me. I also feel that I am successful at finding the right quotes for my writing topic. This is important because if your examples do not match your topic, they do not mean anything. Finally, story telling is the area that I feel that I am strongest in. This stre...
My personal goals for next year are to improve paragraph structure, paraphrasing, and my creative writing techniques. When it comes down to improving paragraphs structures, I tend to have issues organizing what to put in my introduction and conclusion. With my introductions, I tend to put too much context in my beginning. All of my information seems to come out too quickly. I would love to just say enough to get my readers attention and then move on to the next paragraph. With my conclusions, I would like to improve my transitions. I want to lead my readers to want to learn more about the topic I am talking about. I want it to be engaging...not only in the beginning but in the end as well. With paraphrasing, I want to be able to cite properly and portray my ideas through my own words. Also having great punctuation skills and good quoting skills would make me more successful my sophmore year. Lastly, my writing techniques coul...