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Student 1
English 20
Veronica Miranda
October 12, 2015
Essay 5
Weakness and Strength
English class in college is complicated because it was difficult for me to understand the
structure of an essay. It also requires a lot of work. I had to write a journal and rough draft every
week. In this English class I discovered that I had strengths and weaknesses in my writing in my
participation in class. I learned that my weaknesses were that I would use the same words or
write the same thing repeatedly but in different ways. Another weakness that I had is that I find it
really difficult to build a thesis. Regardless of the weakness I had in English class, I also had
some strength. For example, I learned that I can pay attention in class and take notes if I don’t
understand something. In addition, another strength that I had was that if I was intrigued in an
article we were reading or any topic we were talking about I can fully discuss what happened in
the article.
In class I had many weaknesses, for example, one was that I would use the same words or
write the same thing repeatedly but in different ways. My essays wouldn’t be too interesting
because of this. I wouldn’t know what else to write because either I wasn’t really interested in
the topic or that I was not really creative when else to write to writing essays. This weakness
caused many problems in my essays because I had to write a certain amount of words in each
essay and if I kept repeating the same things it will get very boring. Also, I would lose interest
and at some point in the essay making it very short as well as incomplete. I think one way I
would have solved this problem is by expanding my vocabulary. By doing that my essays would
