When I found out that I had to write an essay in class, on the first day of class, I was shocked! I was not prepared for it at all. It had been almost two years since I had written an essay. I was very nervous about writing the diagnostic essay because of the time constraints. If I had to do it again, I would try to be more relaxed and take more time to get my thoughts together and organized.
I enjoy writing when I am able to take my time to proofread and revise, revise, revise! I also like to get my ideas written down, kind of like an outline, and then begin writing my paper. Once I have my ideas I can write an organized paper. I do not think that my diagnostic paper was very well organized. It was just a lot of information thrown together to complete two pages! If I would have had more than 45 minutes to write it, I would have gone back to make several changes. I would have been scribbling out sentences, moving sentences around and choosing better words to use. Time is something that I need to make a paper a great paper.
My strengths have to be that I am an organized writer.(When I have time!) Once I have decided what I want to write about, I can get to work and I can keep my thoughts coming. The tough part, is deciding what I want to write about! I have many opinions and I like to express them. One of my weaknesses in writing has to be second guessing myself. It is hard for me to want to sit down and start a paper. I second guess myself on whether or not something is going to be good enough to write about. It drives me crazy because I can spend hours going back and forth with myself about whether or not I should use something in my papers.
No comments:
Post a Comment