Reflecting on Personal Writing Skills: A Self-assessment

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Writing to you as a college undergraduate, my writing skills seem on par with someone who has just graduated high school. I thought my writing would improve after I graduated high school; but it didn’t. After seeing essays that my college friends wrote, I look back at the few essays I wrote in college and I can’t stop myself in thinking that I must be one of the worst essay writers at UC Davis. The two AP English classes I took in high school have given me less confidence as a writer, as I am always trying, and eventually failing, to implement the rigid writing guidelines from those two classes into the classes I took in college. This may be explained by my Meyers-Briggs personality test results, which claim that my introversion,

The Meyers-Briggs Personality Test I took last week suggested that as an introvert, sensing, thinking and judging individual I struggle to decide what to include in a paper, I often lack strong examples in my essays, I don’t recognize if the content of my essays are clear, and I tend to not ask for help when I struggle in dealing with these problems I face. Sadly, all of these are true. My writing style and my personality type were in agreement that my essays had lots of problems. Maybe it’s my personality that is causing trouble in my writing and not me fixating on writing techniques from high school. Maybe both are contributing. Whatever the answer, I enter another essay writing college class with the same problematic writing that caused me much grief after graduating from high

While my life goal of getting into veterinarian school may not seem like it applies to my writing problems and goals for this course, they are in actuality essential to that. To get into veterinary school, I have to do well on the GRE, as well as write a successful personal statement. All of these requirements heavily rely on excellent writing skills, which relate to my personality-based flaws of my style of writing