I would not describe myself as a writer at all. Many people are natural when it comes to writing papers, but I have always had to take extra time to do papers because I overthink everything. I am an artist so many people correlate that with being great at writing, but that is not necessarily the case for me. I will say though that because of my artistic abilities, I am better at creative writing where there are less rules about what to write about, and I can use my imagination to its full extent. One time that I truly felt successful as a writer was in my senior year of high school. We were allowed to pick a topic about something that we felt was an issue and write a research paper on it. I wrote about the NCAA gymnastics Larry Nassar scandal which was something that I was genuinely interested in. The situation made me angry which in a way helped my writing because I wrote as if I was responsible for telling the story. My teacher loved it, and that paper made me feel proud of my writing. Some writing aspects I would like to work on this semester are in-text citations and grammar. Some areas where my writing could use work are argumentative style writings and mainly analysis style writings. My learning is not specific. I can pretty much learn in any way, but I do like when I have a set of clear instructions of what to do and what questions to answer in a paper so that I do not have as many careless errors.
