Understanding Me: Culture, Goals, Learning and Writing

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Ariana Martinez English 110 Angie Kirk 23 September, 2015 Getting to Know Me When you are barely coming to know someone better, there are so many things you want to know about them. Yet, in order to keep it simple you only get to hear a few things about them. Therefore, the four things you should know about me are what culture I come from, my goals for and after college, my learning styles, and my reflection of myself as a writer. To start off, the first thing you should know about me is that I come from a big Hispanic family. I would identify this as my culture because it includes a unity that not many other families have. My family is big because my father has nine brothers and sisters. Overtime, his brothers and sisters have had children …show more content…

My strongest attributes as a writer are that I state my thesis clearly at the beginning so that my reader knows what my essay will consist of; this makes it easier for them to focus on my writing. My biggest concerns when it comes to writing is that I brainstorm and gain many ideas but I struggle when it comes to elaborating on them, also I tend to paraphrase quotes and it becomes difficult for me to cite. Yet, I hope that in English 110 I have practice and learn how to get rid of these difficulties which will eventually make my essays much stronger and it will become easier for me to write. In English 110, I also hope that any grammar and sentence structures I have trouble with will become easier for me which can also lead to me writing better essays. After stating the four things you should know about me, it may be realizable that there are more things you want to know. Therefore, when you get to know someone and only get to know a few things about them, it is good to keep in mind that there is so much more to that person and it is just a matter of time to get to know them better. Also, maybe those few things you got to know may not be what you expected about that person, therefore one should not judge someone just by their

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