Personal Problems
I find myself as
a writer methodical, detailed, and extremely voiced. This is also one of my
downfalls. I put so much detail into my writing even in my academic writing
that the fluff starts adding up. In my career here at Washington State University I feel as if I've
found a definite style that I use in my writing. In the past I could say that
my writing paints pictures with the attributes listed above. But there are
still many places of which I could work to improve my own writing; I think most
of these places are more mechanical than grammatical to be completely honest
but I have been wrong before. To which brings me the quote of that everyone is their
worst critic of their own writing.
One of my larger
problems or places that I could improve on is not giving sentences that don’t really
add any context to my writing or sentences that are FILLER, EMPHASIS, ATTRIBUTE
AND DESCRIBE NOTHING in particular of interest or value. These sentences aren't
very helpful at all in my writing but they always seem to show up in the best
places. A prime example; “To which brings me the quote of that everyone is their
worst critic of their own writing”. The quote is actually from one paragraph
up. I wasn't really paying attention to what I was writing and thus the nothing
sentence appears.
Another of my
problems is that I think I put too much of my voice into things, I put too much
emphasis on some of my points and thus push others to the side because the way I
write. This is something that is a little harder to show in my own writing and
would take an entire paper to put it into perspective for you. But it does
happen and I’m aware of it. I guess an example would be;
“In conclusion I
would have to say the major points of my style as an arguer is that I like to
listen to what other people have to say because sometimes, I’ll admit it, I’m
wrong. But when I’m not wrong I do this that way I can also have the floor as
well. It’s not so much how I do it but how it is seen as a token of respect to
let them have their say and they should let you have your own. My other
characteristic of being emotional or calm is the same. If the person I’m
arguing against becomes very emotional I tend to become emotional as well just
to fight back their incoming verbal assault. Then I’m also very calm and cold
when arguing with people depending on my own personal relationship to them”.
In this short “half” paragraph of
mine, I ended up shoving some of the other points in the paper aside feeling
that they weren't as important to cover again in the conclusion.
The
last thing I really need to work on is my over use of commas. I use them so much
in the first few drafts of a paper that my sentences become so LONG AND WITHOUT
MEANING AND REPETITIVE that my readers loose interest or find it hard to
understand what I was trying to convey. This over use leading onto run on
sentences has been a work in progress since high school. I've been consistently
getting better so the examples are harder to find but I do remember back in
high school where my peer grader looked at the paper and gave it back saying
that they couldn't read it because it was so hard to understand.
My
goal at this stage in my writing is to get better at not using filler
sentences, to fix my voicing in my papers so that points don’t go to the
wayside, and to continue to fix the problem of commas in my sentences.
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