Areas of Improvement

Although I have many strengths in my writing skills, I do have weaknesses. Weaknesses are obviously the iffiest part of your paper and are important to work on to make a paper stronger and develop yourself as a writer. My weaknesses are sometimes writing off-subject and failing to anticipate argument with my thesis.

By writing-off subject I mean rambling. I tend to write too much on one topic, in detail, and veer away from my ideas. Which makes me sound like I do not know what I'm talking about and can distract the reader. Also, not anticipating objections makes my voice in the paper sound biased and unthoughtful. Those two things completely change to voice and organization of my paper which is extremely important because it allows the reader to not be confused and feel like they can't trust what I am saying. The way I catch these things is usually by reading my paper through with a friend and ask them to pay special attention to it. Once I fix those things, I think I will be a really strong writer.

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