I believe my reading skills and habits are above average. I enjoy reading challenging, in depth novels such as Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. I love to read and try to comprehend different perspectives and narratives. I absolutely love all of the Harry Potter series and Twilight saga. I think that I am a strong reader. I annotate when I want to review passages or words that interest me or have no idea of what they mean. I wish I had more time in the day to pick up more books to read because I find reading a great way to escape from reality.
Although reading is one of my strongest assets, I am not as strong as a writer as I am a reader. Writing comes easy to me when there is no structure involved. I feel confident in writing in journals, and not so confident in writing in long essay papers. I have written more than a 5 page paper because it was required in my previous classes, but I struggled. I am familiar with academic argument essays along with the MLA citation form because I had taken a writing 101 at a community college. Because I am a not so strong writer and seem to ramble in my essays, I use a lot of writing strategies to help me structure my essays that I write. I usually brainstorm my topics on a piece of paper and find at least three main sub topics/arguments I can write about along with my topics. I come to a decision and chose my topic and start my thesis statement and outline my three arguments and conclusion. After I finish my first rough draft, I usually go through my essays and quietly read them to myself to hear my written process out loud, then handing it over to a peer to edit it.
Drifting away from writing, I am a strong researcher. I believe that because I am mindfully curious and find learning new things very interesting, my researching skills are very through and collective. I feel very comfortable researching at my own risk because I end up being very productive and resourceful after my findings. Research papers are my favorite types of papers to write about because I feel that I am naturally curious and I can find endless facts about the researched topic.
Although I am a strong reader and researcher, I do not think I am a strong critical thinker. I am a compassionate person so I do think about other’s perspectives on a topic or situation before judging. I try to look at other’s opinions and figure out why they might think the way they are thinking and connect the situations or topics to a related situation even if it might not appear to be related in any way. I do not have a structured problem solving process; I just go straight to collecting facts and opinions before judging and assuming a situation. That is why I think that I am not a strong critical thinker.
Therefore, reading, and researching are two of my strongest assets in this writing/blogging class this quarter because I am naturally curious, and reading is very interesting to me. However, writing and critical thinking are my weaknesses in this writing/blogging class this quarter. Because I ramble and do not have an automatic structured process in writing, I feel that writing is one of my top two weaknesses that might hold me back from my full potential. I do not have an automatic thinking process either and just automatically see other’s perspectives without a problem solving process.
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