Strengths
The most common strength that I have in my writing is the appeal to the reader. When I wrote my practice essay I wanted the reader to feel the emotion I was feeling through my writing. If I cried while I wrote this essay I want the reader to cry as well. I love to write but when I am writing my main goal is to tell a story that the readers will understand and sympathize with. I am usually emotional when I am writing for example if I am angry it never fails that I write harder on the paper than necessary and sometimes my words bleed through the page. I know that since I am typing these papers you cannot see my emotions as they play across my face there fore I want you to feel them and I want you to relate to the topic. If I cant …show more content…
Often times I write how I talk for example if I am wanting to say the creek was bubbly and bright. I often write the crick was movin, groovin, and the fish were jumpin like hotcakes off a griddle. I usually end up editing an assignment a lot if I have to turn it in. I feel if someone is not from the country and that the jargon that I use is not going to be as common to them and their going to wonder what I am trying to talk about. Meanwhile they will spend so much time trying to figure out what I am saying they lose interest in the topic of the paper. While I was writing the practice essay I continuously backtracked to fix a saying or jargon in my paper. I spent more time trying to get the country out of my paper than I did actually writing …show more content…
One of the mistakes I made were reading comprehension I had to pick out the most important topic out of the sentence and I always picked the wrong answer...always. For example the question stated "Mary cleaned the house while Susan slept late" I picked both ideas are equally important. Apparently the fact that Mary cleaned the house was more important. Reading comprehension is the ability to read and comprehend what the writer is trying to tell you. The next grammar issue I struggled with was parallelism. Parallelism is the use of consecutive verbal constructions in your writing. Such as in our grammar test one of the questions I had was "Before she could leave the house, Suzanne had to search for her keys, pocketbook, and purse." I am going to be completely honest and openly admit I have never even heard of this. So in turn I got every question about parallelism wrong. The final and the biggest issue I had was dangling modifiers a dangling modifier is a is a word or phrase that modifies a word that is not clearly defined in a sentence. An example would be of a well written dangling modifier is: Hoping to gather favor, my new boyfriend brought my parents a gift that sadly unimpressed them. Instead of just writing: Hoping to gather favor, my parents were sadly unimpressed with the gift. I know that I am going to have to work on my grammar in order to be taken seriously as a
The most common strength that I have in my writing is the appeal to the reader. When I wrote my practice essay I wanted the reader to feel the emotion I was feeling through my writing. If I cried while I wrote this essay I want the reader to cry as well. I love to write but when I am writing my main goal is to tell a story that the readers will understand and sympathize with. I am usually emotional when I am writing for example if I am angry it never fails that I write harder on the paper than necessary and sometimes my words bleed through the page. I know that since I am typing these papers you cannot see my emotions as they play across my face there fore I want you to feel them and I want you to relate to the topic. If I cant …show more content…
Often times I write how I talk for example if I am wanting to say the creek was bubbly and bright. I often write the crick was movin, groovin, and the fish were jumpin like hotcakes off a griddle. I usually end up editing an assignment a lot if I have to turn it in. I feel if someone is not from the country and that the jargon that I use is not going to be as common to them and their going to wonder what I am trying to talk about. Meanwhile they will spend so much time trying to figure out what I am saying they lose interest in the topic of the paper. While I was writing the practice essay I continuously backtracked to fix a saying or jargon in my paper. I spent more time trying to get the country out of my paper than I did actually writing …show more content…
One of the mistakes I made were reading comprehension I had to pick out the most important topic out of the sentence and I always picked the wrong answer...always. For example the question stated "Mary cleaned the house while Susan slept late" I picked both ideas are equally important. Apparently the fact that Mary cleaned the house was more important. Reading comprehension is the ability to read and comprehend what the writer is trying to tell you. The next grammar issue I struggled with was parallelism. Parallelism is the use of consecutive verbal constructions in your writing. Such as in our grammar test one of the questions I had was "Before she could leave the house, Suzanne had to search for her keys, pocketbook, and purse." I am going to be completely honest and openly admit I have never even heard of this. So in turn I got every question about parallelism wrong. The final and the biggest issue I had was dangling modifiers a dangling modifier is a is a word or phrase that modifies a word that is not clearly defined in a sentence. An example would be of a well written dangling modifier is: Hoping to gather favor, my new boyfriend brought my parents a gift that sadly unimpressed them. Instead of just writing: Hoping to gather favor, my parents were sadly unimpressed with the gift. I know that I am going to have to work on my grammar in order to be taken seriously as a