Me Mysefl And I Essay Research Paper

Me Mysefl And I Essay, Research Paper

Where shall I start with this tale of “Strengths and Weaknesses”? Since weaknesses are probably my most stellar talent I shall start here. For years I have had the urge to write but never thought I had one single iota of talent in my bones. So I never tried unless forced by a teacher. I believed that there was only one writer in my family, my brother Chris. So I took my role in my family, My brother the writer, my mother the student, my father the genius and I the artist. All in all it was not bad, but I never had a vent for my frustrations or my thoughts and ideas. This carried into my classes; it made me look like somewhat of an artistic dim wit. To further this idea was my participation in sports. Everyone seems to think a jock in generally stupid in comparison to the rest of the world, so I played this part through most of my school career. I was never stupid I was just stuck in the stereotype. It was an easy role. I never studied; I just slid by on the knowledge I gained from half listening in class. So I was a “C” average student when I should have been something a bit more. (Let me tell ya, I regret this immensely.)

The only classes I excelled in were the creative classes such as art, shop, photography, and even speech class. To be honest, speech class changed me forever. In speech, I was yet again forced to “write”. Speeches were not meant to be written, but only guided by your notes. This is what I believed and still do today. The teacher however thought that you should write every word you spoke and follow it to the letter. This was where I first started to think in high school. I used this class to springboard my thoughts and get them out there. I was tired of being the stupid jock.

To you this written piece before you may seem like rambling but there is a method to my madness. You see, after the writing I did in that class, I decided that I liked to voice my ideas and such. I also found I was not completely lacking in writing skills. Incidentally my teacher felt the same way. He talked me into taking a creative writing class the next semester and to drop my study hall and take over the school newspaper and be its editor. He opened a whole new world to me. I learned everything I could on writing a good story. In all the years of English classes I never really understood what writing really was. I never understood pronouns, run-on sentences, or even how to fix my major problem of using too many “Buts” in my writing. But I did learn how to take someone else’s work and read it and find the errors and ways to make it better. Somehow I just knew what errors were in it and how to fix them. This was always weird to me but to this day errors jump out at me constantly. I drive down a road and see a sign, and “BAM!” there is an error sticking right in front of me.

Ok, enough about the history of how I came to be what I am today. I do hope you realize that I am not a complete dolt and that I needed to give you some history before I told you my writing faults. So if ya (yes I know its supposed to be “you” but that’s how I write.) want some numbers here they come. 1. I am not a good writer. 2. I never said I was a good writer. 3. I do believe however the way I do write is sometimes fun to read and enjoyable instead of the same old stuffy stories and papers everyone else turn in. (This is a strength I think.) 4. I rarely do a rewrite of my work, I feel that if I work something too much it takes the edge off my paper or story and it turns it to mush. 5. I do ramble quite a bit, but hey, you have got to admit that this is no a completely boring paper. 6. I have not had a whole lot of practice in writing, most writers start young, I didn’t, I never could keep my attention long enough in class to really get this “English” stuff down pat. 7. Read number 2 again. 8. This comes after 7 and before 9. 10. I just added this one so I could start a new paragraph on an even number.

So you wanted me to write about my “Strengths and Weaknesses”. Well, my grammar is not always the best. I tend to repeat things; I tend to repeat things. (See I tend to go for the goofy puns) I even tend to ramble a whole lot. I never know where to end a paragraph. And last but not least, “But” my comfort word, it has got to be tamed. (These before are my weaknesses). Now my strengths (just look to the right) I always have something to say. I like to question the grammatical rules. I like to write the way I would speak, the way the average person would say it or like to read it. Sometimes what I write even makes some sense, but not much. (There’s that “But” again.) I write about nothing but always about something. When I write something and do not sign my work you still know its mine by the way I write, who else would write so badly? If someone does not like my story I am not upset, I know that someone out there in the wild blue trailer parks of the world will like it and as long as someone likes it I know it was worth it. Wait, I would like to end my paragraph but geez, I just cannot figure out how to end it and since this is just a paper to show you my “Strengths and Weaknesses” I shall end it here. (Hey I think I just found a run-on sentence.)

I hope this little story gives you some indication of my writing level. I hope that with your help I may be able to get over some of these bumps so that maybe someday the stories floating aroun