Although the majority of my writing has been for academic purposes, I have always enjoyed writing as a way to express my own thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. For me, having to write my thoughts down forced me to learn how to organize my thoughts and how to compose them to convey my purpose. My goal as a writer is to express my perspectives to my audience in the most effective way possible. I would like to continue learning the numerous ways to improve the effectiveness and clarity of my writing. From this course, I hope to practice the skills I learned in the Writing-100 course such as writing strategies from Graff and Birkenstein’s “They Say, I Say” text. I also hope to explore new ways to better myself as a writer. Some of my biggest weaknesses as a writer are repetition, clarity, word choice, and paragraph and sentence structure. Since I have always thought of writing as a form of expression and communication, these specific aspects that I would like to work on are very important to my writing skillset. In order to achieve my goal of improving as a writer, it is essential that I gain and practice new writing techniques that I am unfamiliar with at the moment. I am here to better myself as a whole and writing is a part of that; to me, my thoughts and perspectives are useless unless I know how to correctly present it to others, whether that be through the form of writing or speech. Through this course, I am ecstatic to acquire further knowledge on how I can become a much better conveyer of my thoughts.
