As a student who has written several essays over my years in school, I have come to notice many characteristics that are prominent within my writing. First off, I feel as though I have a keen knowledge of language and flow that allows a reader to be directly successfully through a text. After writing several essays in courses heavily rooted from social sciences, I have developed a voice that reflects professionalism, objectiveness, and poise. Having written such essays, I have become quite practiced in terms of using statements backed up by facts. Although some essays are formed around the author's opinion, I feel as though solid evidence is needed to back up every point in the author's writing. I do this to avoid biases in my essays.
I also am quite proficient at crafting a essay question/thesis that is broad enough to allow at least 3 points, but also precise enough to not be a generalization. This allows for a paper with a meaty body that doesn't trail off or ramble on.
Something that I need to improve on is organization. I feel that even though I have good ideas, I have a difficult time organizing them on paper. With better organization, writing a persuasive paper would be much easier. Perhaps the use of more proof reads and edits would help solve this issue. I also have some problems with correctly citing information. I want to be academically honest with my writing, but sometimes a substantial amount of information can be hard to keep track of.
A goal for this course would be to take the appropriate amount of time to craft a proper essay. In the past, I have procrastinated on papers. Unfortunately, this caused me to miss several key aspects of a good essay that I could have corrected if I gave myself more time.
