preview

Personal Narrative: Improvement To Come

Decent Essays

Improvement to Come As I sat down to write how I have improved and what my weaknesses are it took forever for anything to come to mind. I kept thinking, “Well I did improve on this, but I would still consider it a weakness.” I was staring at my blank page on my laptop and my outline I did not come with any ideas. I excel at writing, and punctuation; however, I struggle in writing a thesis, comma splices, and word choices. I have two strengths that I have accomplished. I now have a feel on transitions, which was one of the ones that I was afraid that I would not be able to understand. I was nervous when I was told that I had to start using transitions instead of using “but” all of the time. I never thought I could ever get the hang of changing my writing abilities, but it was easier than I thought. I am now able to use a semicolon when needed. Before, I never used them because I was told to never use them unless really needed to. Now, I use semicolons and transitions often with combing sentences, for example, “Knowing they were so little and attempted to take their lives breaks me; however, my sister and cousin are doing well now.” However, I do have a few weaknesses, including how to develop a thesis, comma splice, and word choices. I was told that my thesis was not bad in the rubric; therefore, I am not concerned about how good or bad …show more content…

Also, I plan to use the little brown handbook that has a bunch of examples of what to do vs. what to do. I plan on using pages 269 which are for comma splices, page 46 which is transitions, and page 14 for writing a thesis. In conclusion, even though I am proficient in writing and punctuation, there is still room to improve on writing a thesis, comma splices, and word choices. I am also going to use Dictionary.com to find other meanings and other ways to say words. I hope to accomplish all of my writing with the use of the resources available to

Get Access