Portrait of me as a writer now

I am a writer who tend to include tons of vague details that mess up the story even if I don't want to. The unnecessary things just come together with the significant elements that I add to my writing. When I try to be careful about what I am writing, my pen or keyboard stops. I can't keep going if I focus on two things at the same time. So I always come back and revise a lot of things later rather than trying to start with simple details. I am also a writer who focuses on one topic while I'm writing. When there is a topic that I'm writing, I can't stop and move on to the next one. I always get stuck at some point or don't come up with any idea at all. The only solution for me is, again, to revise the piece as much as I can to change any redundancy and vagueness.

goals for next year

My goal for next year is to make my writings more accurate and vivid. I found out that I had trouble making the sentences with more details. I thought that it was because I wasn't careful enough when I'm typing the information for the essays. It always ended with some of the descriptions of the circumstances that happened that relates to that topic. I will reach this goal by practice flourishing the paragraph and seeking others for help. I thought I needed to practice by myself first because training can improve themselves if I had a passion for achieving my goal. I needed to get used to the habit of learning how to do it by myself. But if I find it hard for me to reach this goal by myself, I could seek help from others. It could be my Writing fellows, siblings, and parents. They can look over my writing and determine whether I need to start over from the beginning or revise a part of my essay.

Writing Center experience

I visited the Writing Center twice for my research project and portfolio. The focus of my meeting was to improve and revise my weaknesses for the essay. My writing fellow helped me by explaining what exactly was going well and wrong about my piece and some solutions to make it better. This is a good opportunity for me to find my weaknesses by listening to their suggestions for my revisions. I used this meeting to move forward by using the papers that they gave to me and comparing it to my writing. It went smoothly compared to my revisions before going to the Writing Center because I didn't know what to do for my essay at all. They also gave me a chance to try to find my obstacles by giving me some hints that led to more revisions. They asked me what I would revise that could improve my writing as a whole. It helped me a lot because I could use this skill to evaluate another piece of writing or an essay in the future.

learning and improvements as a writer

This year, I learned that I had skills that contributed positively and negatively during a specific work for writing. I kept getting more ideas which could essentially be a good thing because the relevant information could flourish the writing. But too much information could damage my sentence fluency because I started adding irrelevant events which caused me to revise couple paragraphs which took me days to recover them. My revision skills also affected my writing positively because revisions help the writing flow more precisely. I always made sure whether my revision makes the sentences better because revision could mess me up sometimes. I often realized that the wordings before I revised were better than the revised version. I also found out that when I was summarizing the paragraphs, I was paraphrasing the first part and then skipped the ending because I took time looking through the first few sentences. So I started checking for myself to see if I didn't just focus on two or three things. The best option for me was to pick up the most significant information from the paragraph and then summarize the organization.