Of Mice And Men Weaknesses

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My writing from freshman year demonstrates that my strengths as a writer are making a clear argument, organization and having a good choice of evidence. One of my strengths as a writer is making a clear argument. For example, in the book Of Mice and Men where we had to give Curley’s wife characteristics, I gave three valid traits that portrayed her well; I said: “Curley’s wife is portrayed as flirtatious, attractive and attention seeking”. If one were to read the book it states how she would throw her body onto Lennie being flirtatious. It also mentions how all the guys on the ranch thought of her as beautiful. Plus, it says how she drew attention to herself by wearing bright colors. The characteristics suit her well. Another one of my strengths…show more content…
One of my challenges as a writer is editing. For an example, in the Of Mice and Men assignment where we had to describe Curley’s wife. In the process of doing so I did not realize I had a lot of proofreading issues such as putting commas in the right place. Or I would say “you don’t see women like that” when you are not allowed to use first person or second person words. I do not usually focus on small things like that. I should because it is just as important as everything else, but it slips my mind when I am editing. I usually notice spelling right away because it is right in front of one's face, but punctuation is much harder to catch. Secondly, another challenge I have is introducing and incorporating my quotes. In the Casey at the Bat writing assignment, I had trouble introducing one of the quotes. It is less of introducing the quote and more of choosing the quote that goes with the introducing part. I said that “When Casey is down to his last hit, he has confidence in himself. The speaker says, “he bade the game…”. The quote goes with what I had said, but it did not match what I was supposed to say. The whole purpose of introducing the quote is to give the reader background information about what was happening in that part of the story. Finally, a weakness I have is using vague words. In my writing about Juliet and…show more content…
I am most proud of the on-demand writing because I had very little errors. In my writing I only had a comma splice, I had to elaborate on an area, I had forgotten to write a word and I needed to add some punctuation. That is the smallest amount of errors I have had on one paper all year. I am extremely proud of myself because I can see the improvement from the beginning of the year until now. The less amount of errors I have, the more confident I feel about my writing. On the other hand, I find the Casey at the Bat assignment most challenging because it was confusing for me. Also considering the fact that I did not like the poem and that I did not understand much of it. I feel this one paper I wrote did not make any type of sense. The literary devices were hard to find and it was hard to explain why they created suspense in the poem. It seemed as though I was just adding sentences on to make it seem like I knew what I was talking about. When I was trying to explain the alliteration I said “ he bade the game go on”(38). Except that was not the alliteration. I am not even sure if that is alliteration. I could have done better on this paper if I understood the poem fully and if the devices made complete sense to me. My pride and ability to write the on demand paper and my struggle with the Casey at the Bat assignment show I
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