Journal Entry #5 I feel that my current strengths, when it comes to writing, are limited to say the least.
My main problem, or weakness, would be that I have a difficult time transferring the thoughts or ideas inside my mind down on paper. Changing the wording of sentences, never knowing what sounds best is an issue that affects me greatly. Some would argue this is a sign of an effective writer, or a writer that is concerned how his or her ideas will be construed. Honestly, I find it bothersome and time consuming. When the information flows effortlessly from my mind to my fingers the quality of the paper or journal is magnified. Unfortunately, this is a rare occurrence and only happens when I am very knowledgeable or passionate about the topic
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I found it was easy to write about myself, because no one knows me better than me. Nevertheless, I wanted to make a decent grade so I found myself second guessing some of the information I disclosed. Would I disclose too much information, would I not disclose enough? How do I want to present the information I was revealing about myself? I toiled over these questions the entire time I was writing the first paper. I finished the last rewrite of our first paper about an hour before we needed to be in class. Honestly, I feel it was a mediocre attempt at best, looking back there are several things I would have done differently before turning in the final draft. Moving on to our second paper of the semester I am optimistic. Optimistic that both my strengths and weaknesses will assist me in receiving a decent grade for my work. I have already started my research and chosen a painting for the assignment. I spent extra time in the prewriting phase of the paper and have several good ideas to present. Will I spend countless hours staring at a computer screen thinking of 10 different ways to say the same sentence? Probably, but at least I will have gathered enough information to put together a suitable paper, and just hopefully receive an A for my hard
I believe that everyone has their own strength and weaknesses, but not everyone is able to figure out their strengths and weaknesses correctly. Knowing our own strengths and weaknesses is essential because it can help to achieve success in anything we choose to do. For me, my weakness is the time management, communication skills and weak in preparing effective Curriculum Vitae (CV) Below will be further explaining all my personal weaknesses and the ways to overcome it.
Over my career of schooling my writing has changed dramatically at times and very little at others. Through my years of schooling people have determined my main weaknesses and strengths that I should work on with my writing. My biggest weakness is writing introductions and conclusions they must be so complicated and require so much thought to be defined as good. I excel at writing body paragraphs and explaining all the facts that back up your main ideas though.
The weakness I portray are very difficult for me to think of. I know that I have quite a few but to change them is something that I have not full conquered yet. A weakness I know I have is sentence structure. I am not very good at putting sentences together and making them strong and well developed. Another weakness that is obvious is word choice. I don't always know the exact wording to use in different parts of a paper, this makes it hard to understand sometimes not very well written.
My biggest weakness that I have would have to be my organization skills. That is something that I have been working on lately so I could become better at it. What organization means to me is having a thought out plan for your day with certain times for each patient that I will have that day. Also a clean workspace so I have access to things much quicker when they are needed. Having good organization is important as nurses because it helps provide the best care for patients. For that reason I bought a planner so that I can start to become more organized and have a well thought out plan or schedule for my
Throughout my entire writing career I have always had difficulty writing. For one I have never enjoyed it because I am usually not interested in the topic. I also seem to get writers block half way thru whenever I write a paper. My final big problem with writing is that I always procrastinate before I have a paper due. My main problems with writing are procrastinating and having writers block.
After all the papers I wrote throughout the year, I know where my strengths and weaknesses are. My weaknesses are organizing, conclusions, and final editing. My strengths are thesis creation, pathos and logos incorporation, and introductions. I am always attempting to improve my weaknesses and make them strengths and I will keep them in mind as I continue my writing career. The goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year are helping me push myself to become a better writer and every time I write I know I am one step
Reflection as defined by the Oxford English dictionary (2012) as the action or process of thinking deeply about a subject, involving influence from one’s life and experiences, thus a reflective journal is designed to help me think deeply about my learning, especially on issues such as: my progress in learning, the difficulties I may have encountered in the process of learning, the strategies I have taken to get around those difficulties, and my evaluation of my own performance.
Studying unit one has done a lot for me, specifically knowing who I am and how I fit in not only in business but the world in general. Throughout this unit there were several eye opening assessments including what I felt to be the most important, “Self-Awareness”, “Emotional Intelligence” and “Defining Issues”. During each assessment I could see my opinions changing and was given a different perspective by answering questions, they truly made me acknowledge opportunities I had in life.
One of my strengths that I have as a writer is I like telling story so I always come up with a story because when I write I always have a planned story in my mind and I just put it down words on paper. Also before write I plan what I am going to write. This way of writing is very effective because usually I gather research and write down the important points and my own explanations. In fall quarter, I had a research paper instead of a midterm exam. My strengths as a writer helped me very much in my research paper and I got A grade in that
My weaknesses from my educational experience would be a couple things. To start off it would be from middle school in my English class because I’ve always hated English. So I had more of a fixed mindset I always thought that it was too hard for me to do essays like I wasn’t capable of doing them. I would start them but I never finish them. One of my goals back then was to get better at essays which is still one of my goals today. And then eventually writing essays wasn’t my weakness because I knew that I can do them. It wasn’t till another English teacher later in high school that helped me out a lot and made me like English a little more than I did back in middle school. She would push me to do everything I would say I can’t do up until I got out of the fixed mindset. Another one of my
In this paper, I am to write about my strengths and weaknesses in writing. This is not an easy task for me because I have never considered myself a writer. Reading other peoples thoughts are activities that are more my speed. I simply have trouble putting my thoughts into writing. Since, I do not feel that I have many strengths, let's move on to my weaknesses.
One strength I had was the organization of the essay. My sentences I wrote were not all over the place each paragraph talks about one topic. One weakness I had with writing this essay was my writing style. I noticed that in this essay my writing style was a bit choppy. I should have read my essay out loud to see if it had a good flow between my ideas.
These capabilities that I have are ones I was able to develop on over the course of this semester. Now that I can recognize my skills, I can focus on how to improve these skills even more. Even though I’m good at poetry, description, and narration I can still build and improve these
As a student, I feel that I have many writing weaknesses. I know that on my own, and because teachers have told me so. Some of the complications I face with writing is not using enough body paragraphs, forgetting a thesis statement, lack of word choice, punctuation errors, and etc. I am unaware at times of my mistakes, but I always try to correct them.
The aspect which could be counted as my weakness is communication. Over the last year, there has been an improvement after working in my family’s café thus improving these skills and will continue