Hi Professor Talerico, I am writing to you concerning my strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing, reading, and speaking. When it comes to writing, I believe that my weakness is using words appropriately. My strength, however, is my ability to clearly convey my ideas. As for reading, I am not a big fan. Therefore, my weakness would be my lack of motivation to open a book or any sort of reading material for that matter. Whenever I do find the motivation to read, I am usually able to comprehend subject matter easily. When it comes to speaking, I believe that it is my strongest delivery method. I like to talk to others and I am not afraid to voice my opinion. I would have to say that my weakness for speaking would be staying on topic. Needless to say, I have …show more content…
In order to enhance learning, I would like to share with you some of my personal experiences in the classroom in hopes that we can learn from them. In the best class I ever had, the teacher did not belittle students - questions were answered sincerely and we were treated like true adults. In addition, in the best class I ever had, the students did all of their required work and then some. In other words, students read all the assigned readings, met deadlines early, and asked meaningful questions. The open communication between the professor and the students made it the best class ever! There was a mutual sense of respect and you could just tell it stimulated learning! On the contrary, in the worst class I ever had, the teacher did not respect the students. For example, class time was not utilized to the fullest and student concerns did not seem important to the professor. In the worst class I ever had, the students did not respect their professor. In that class, the students walked all over the professor and got away with more than they should have. In reality, the difference between the best class ever and the worst class ever was
As a recent high school graduate I may seem to have many more weaknesses than strengths. But, when brainstorming for ideas to write about I noticed that I had many more strengths than weaknesses, the complete opposite. My strengths allow me to stand out and allow my audience to experience my writing in a positive way. I am very persuasive and can demonstrate to others the way I believe and how I feel about a topic so they can recognize the way I view a certain topic. By being persuasive it is important to show ones opinions and
A weakness I hold is that I am not exceptional at formulating ideas in the writing industry. I find that formulating ideas are tough for me, and I am challenged when there is a writing assignment in school. I think through the Pope STEM Academy, I will learn how to turn writing into a strength, so I will be better prepared for my future.
A person's strength was always his weakness. When it comes to reading and writing, I have many strengths and weaknesses. My past writing and reading experiences have made me into the writer/reader that I today. Strengths help me excel in my read/write, but the weaknesses do bring me in a stump at times. When writing an essay, you can have a very high vocabulary, but not have the best of grammar. The good thing about weaknesses is that they can be worked on to be made into a strength. Many people achieve this by setting goals and making the new one harder and harder. Without strengths or weaknesses or even goals, how would people learn from their mistakes, becoming better at what they're not or achieve their aims.
How I view my writing is somewhere in between strong and weak. I am aware that my writing has areas to improve upon, and that I am out of practice for writing essays. A strength that I am aware of that I do have a basic grasp of writing as a whole. Another strength I have is that type quickly when I know what I am writing. I have some weaknesses to my writing that
1. What do you see to be your writing and reading strengths and weaknesses? If your first language was not English, what was it? What has prepared you for this level of English?
Writing is a skill that takes time to develop. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is very important. Being aware of your strengths can help you stand out, and your weaknesses show you areas where improvement is needed. Like everybody I have weaknesses as well as strengths, and being conscious of them helped me improve my writing skills.
Within a classroom setting having a solid set of responsibilities such as, time management, being attentive, and communicating are vital for one to succeed in school. Being professional and attending class on a timely manner is important for the right steps to success. Managing your time will significantly help you become a better student and a more-productive worker. I have to take it upon myself to use my strengths and improve on my weaknesses in order to learn and grow as a student. Taking on tasks that may be educationally challenging and endure these challenges with the utmost positivity is a true responsibility. Communication is crucial within the classroom setting. Communicating in a respectful manner among professors,
Of the three essays I wrote this term my favorite was my personal narrative. I had never put much thought into my relationship with literacy. It was a topic I thoroughly enjoyed and I think it shows. That essay was the strongest paper I wrote. I think the strength came from writing about something I know so well, myself. The other essays I had trouble connecting with the topics and it made it difficult to come up with expanded thoughts and ideas write about. I think the biggest strength I have is being able to move through each idea and connect everything together. I am a very simple and straight forward writer. My greatest weakness is my inability to put words onto paper. I have the hardest time trying to sort my ideas out and create comprehensive concepts. I can usually get the big ideas down but have trouble explaining further and breaking it down. This is most obvious in my Modern Times analysis. I did a very good job retelling the film but my own opinions were few and not as developed as they could have been. I think it could have helped if the topic was something I found more interesting because I can talk about movies all the time.
As far as professor versus teachers that one theme I have noticed is that professors make students be more responsible. In high school the teachers would confront you if you were not in class or if you did not turn in an assignment, however in college a professor will not be all over you if you don’t turn in something because it is not their responsibility to get you through the course. I appreciate the way professors run their class rooms because in the real world someone is not going to hold your hand and monitor your schedule for
My strengths in writing can vary, but I am the best at topic development, specific audience, and sentence structure. I am great when it comes to topic development; I can come up with many different wonderful
After carefully reading and taking the tutorial on the Plato Web Lab site. I found myself having some strengths and weakness in the writing section that I need to improve. One of my main strength is being self-motivated; hard worker and doing all things through Christ that strengthen me. Another strength, being able to read good writing, I will be able to identify solid writing models and improve sentences structure. Also, I love to write and practice writing effective sentences in a unified paragraph or practice free writing. My weakness in writing is listening to audio tapes while the story is playing, and a variety of written listening activities. Also, written ideas lack
My strengths include not interrupting the speaker, maintaining eye contact to show I am actively listening, and being able to think critically about complex topics. Not interrupting a speaker and maintaining eye contact are skills I acquired early in my career to display my engagement and respect for the speaker. Understanding complex topics is something I continually learn how to do. This is aided by conceptualizing detailed knowledge and constantly learning more in the areas related to my field. My main weaknesses are the following. I don’t paraphrase the message to ensure I comprehend it. Typically, halfway through a presentation or meeting I have already formed my judgements of the speaker and the content. Often, I become distracted by a single point mentioned and am unable to identify all of a speaker’s main points. Now that I have identified my primary weaknesses, I can begin to improve upon them by altering my
For starters, I’ll explain some strengths that I incorporate into my writing. I can take any topic and make it into a story. Even if the topic isn’t relevant to me, I can make something out of it. Many people have writers block and need inspiration to start the writing process but I find anything easy to roll with. I’m very good at letting one idea flow to another. This has always been a strength and has been very helpful to me because I can always get a head start instead of wasting hours or even days contemplating on how to address the topic.
I am going to name a few weaknesses that I have. One of my weaknesses is I’m not very descriptive I have however improved over the quarter since I noticed I wasn’t very good. Another weakness I have is I am not good at revising my work but having to read my essays out loud to myself has help me improve somewhat. I didn’t use many quotations when I had to because I didn’t really know when to put them in or when to stop them. I didn’t put quotations when I was phrasing an author’s work from one of their essays that was one of my big
As a writer, my strengths mainly are to keep the content precise, without exaggerating it so that the reader can get knowledge of the topic clearly and to maintain their interest in it. As far as my weaknesses are concerned, I think I still should work more on the referencing and citations part of writing. As far as my personal approach to writing is concerned, it is vital for me, from writing daily feelings into a journal to writing full length essays, the way words make sense in the mind and just keep flowing into sentences that just fits in I find it one of the most important things that a person can ever have. It is an art and having some sense of