Introduction

There is always room for improvement, but I have also gained many strengths to writing through some of my past experiences in high school.

I hope that I will gain better and more extensive writing and reading skills throughout this entire course. I also expect that I will learn how to improve my current writing/English skills. I am thinking about minoring in literature in college, and high school courses are very important to me. I know that every year with each English class that I have taken, I always walk away with something to remember.

I hope to learn how to properly use advanced punctuation in the right way, (- ; : ect.) if possible. It would also be nice to learn more in depth literature of the writing world. All in all I would love to learn how to become a better writer, and gain a better understanding of writing in itself. I am interested in old English as well as more modern English.

My strengths in writing would have to be word choice, and sentence fluency. I love looking in a thesaurus for new and often unused words. I also love to write poetry, short stories, and read a lot of books. All of these activities help me become a better writer. I was in a English 9 Honors class my freshman year, and was forced to remember 50-100 literary terms for my final at the end of the semesters. I also took a Shakespeare class which was mainly reading, understanding and verbally acting parts from his plays. I can say that I gained an abundance of knowledge when I was enlisted in those two courses. Of course there is always room for improvement, and I very much would like to become a better writer.

My weaknesses include minor things like comma usage, and sometimes I even have trouble writing thesis statements. I have a bit more complications writing essays on topics that do not interest me, rather than picking a topic and writing on it myself. In my actual English 9 course, I always used to write the thesis statement as my first sentence in my first paragraph of writing. It took me a while to actually find out that it was supposed to be the last sentence of the first paragraph. I was always taught to use a one sentence thesis statement, and I'm rather confused if it can be a entire paragraph or not when it comes to writing essays.