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The main areas I struggle in are punctuation and grammar. This is almost embarrassing to admit as these seem to be presented as the most basic skills of writing. I still seem to struggle with these issues as I have shown in my papers this year. In my Personal Narrative especially, I have proven that I have misplaced commas as well as places commas should have been placed that they were just missing. My other problem this year was frequently using the passive voice. Before this year I had never heard of passive voice and I think this might be part of the reason that I struggled with not using it. If I could get rid of these problems it would be very helpful. It would save time spent putting my papers into grammarly.com and then reformatting them on the way out because it always tampers with my formatting. Saving this time would allow me to spend it bettering my paper in many different ways. I think I can improve this by remembering what passive voice is when I’m writin...

I write sitting up in my bed leaning against the bedframe in a position that I wish could at least somewhat comfortable. I type for a little while before I have to switch to my second position where I typically just lay down and it’s a lot more comfortable but also a lot harder to type. Typically, I look very relaxed when I’m writing until I get confused or encounter writer’s block which comes very quickly, coming and going as it pleases. The physical aspect of this writing is nothing compared to the metal aspects of writing. The mental stress of writing is sometimes very much existent and at other times and sometimes it’s not even there. When it is there it weighs down on you and it feels as if its squeezing your brain and the thoughts can’t reach your computer. The ideas are swirling around in my head and sometimes they are scarce and at others they’re not at all. I lay down on my bed and look tense as my eyebrows move closer together when these ideas struggle to co...

My main goal for my writing in next year is for me to be able to analyze rhetorical situations for my writing and be able to act on it.   This has been something I’ve been wanting to get better at ever since it was taught to us in class. I thought it was something that I already did ok in but it would improve my writing tenfold. I think becoming better at this would be one of the most useful things I could spend my time working on next year. I would work on this by writing in many different rhetorical situations to expand the different ways I can write and making them all sound better. If I analyze this more and more than my knowledge of it will increase and I will be able to better use it in my writing. I plan on using many different methods to get better at this next year as I will write more and more.