Final Reflection, My Weaknesses

Throughout this semester I have learned many ways of detailing and developing the way I write, also understanding different articles. While writing, one may write the way they talk multiple times, they will be able to get the point across but its not going to be easy for the reader to understand. In the beginning I agreed with the idea of SRTOL “Students' Right to Their Own Language” because why do we have to learn someone else’s language or the way they write? Why can’t we just write the way we feel comfortable? But now I disagree because from my point of view English being a third langue, I always have had hard time writing or understanding articles. First of all every one have different kinds of writing and different views of understanding articles. Most of the time explaining your point in writing is harder than in person to person conversation, because you have to explain and proof your idea clearly to get your point across.  I personally believe that if you don’t get out of you comfort zone you will not learn much. This also applies to writing: if you don’t learn to adapt to different readings and forms of writing, you will not improve your writing and understanding different articles.

When it comes to my writing skills, I have weaknesses and strengths. The most important things about this is that I know my weaknesses strength so that I can work on what needs to be fixed, and better what is already good. To begin, I have multiple weaknesses. One major one is, grammar. As a English third language student learning the English language to be fluent is really hard because it is a very complex language when it comes to pronunciation, spelling, capitalization, syllables and others. And in order to replicate ways of saying in writing one has to use very complicated techniques in an essay. This might be easy for English speakers but for foreign it is a bit complicated. I struggled with making ends meet and using the right grammatical ways. It was really hard at first to satisfy the reader’s expectation regarding clarity and perfection, but since writing is like another language I decided to learn it by giving it most of my attention.

Another weakness is sentence structure. When I am writing some essays I usually race with the time instead of taking my time and writing it clearly so my idea is not clearly understood through my writing. Learning English was not actually that hard than I thought, because I have no choice but to speak the language since I am surrounded with people that are only speaking English. When I write I make common mistakes like spelling, sentence structure and grammar mistakes as well as lack of clarity.  Looking back at my papers, one thing that helped me with these kinds of things is peer review and comments because I was able to correct my mistake and fix the weaknesses. This makes my essay strong and clear, and which also helps the readers understand the concept.I usually get feedback  that goes like this; “…you have many good ideas but…” I have to choose one topic and go from there and make it strong. I also get the same feed backs from my peers.