Most students write, and have been writing for a long time. Personally, my experience with writing has been the same as any other student- well, in most ways. I have always completed my writing assignments with an affinity for the writing process, enjoying the brainstorming and drafting and everything that follows. As an admirer of good writing, I embrace the idea of “being” a writer. Ironically, I rarely write during my free time, and not because I cannot write or lack the time to write, but because the experience consists of such freedom that I often do not know what to write. Technically, writing could hold no limitations, but like any game or, in fact, world, the lack of rules seems entirely too unnatural to me. All things have rules- and like any game the game of writing should have specific guidelines, allowing the artistic brush of the writer to bend and mold those rules. That said, my past experience with writing exclusively involves a constant desire to learn how the rules and techniques of writing.
Surely my writing reflects my strengths and weaknesses, and I am aware of several of them, but probably not all of them. My strengths include mainly my love for the medium- not everyone things of writing as an enjoyable activity, and I do. More specifically, I write creatively and with tight organization (hopefully), designing the layout of my work in a logical and clear manner. Some of my weaknesses include basic mechanics, such as spelling and grammar. Additionally, I tend to write in a flowery style, which sometimes distracts or confuses my reader as they lose themselves in my wordiness.
In High School AP English my class focused on different rhetorical strategies, so when I write I try to employ techniques such as alliteration, etc. As far as my writing process, I do a lot of prewriting, depending on the assignment. With an informal writing assignment, such as this one, I generally briefly brainstorm, compose a rough draft on notebook paper, and the revise my work as I type in on the computer. For more serious compositions, I spend hour’s prewriting- I brainstorm, free write, outline, and eventually draft my work molding it until perfect.
In conclusion, I have some experience with writing that I would like to extend, broadening my knowledge of how to write. My strengths and weaknesses are apparent to me and hopefully I can nourish the first and allow the second to pass away.