At the start of my 2nd semester at KMLA

Writing is a task and that is directly related to my survival and success as a professor in future years. However, I’m not sure whether I’ll survive well enough due to my unfamiliarity with writing. I was always a late starter when it came to writing. When kids in the same class already experienced writing lengthy paragraphs, I was still writing chopped sentences. But, I believe that my lack of experience can also work to my benefit if I practice enough from now on.

As explained above, my hands are not used to writing a lot, which in turn means that I did not write enough to have acquired a specific style of writing. I believe this can work as an advantage to me since a blank paper is fit to write something new than a used paper. Yet, during the few years that I have written in English, I have been commented on the length of my sentences. People find my sentences to be lengthy and to be containing multiple ideas in a limited number of sentences. Oftentimes, this leads to confusion and frustration to the readers as this applies not just to certain sentences but my paragraphs and essays in general. Still, this also represents a positive aspect of my style. The long, complex sentences I write directly reflect the way I think, and therefore is the right bowl to hold my ideas. In order to preserve the benefits and to improve the weaknesses of my style, recently, I try to incorporate my original lengthy sentences with short, impactful sentences.

My tendency to use examples from various fields of interest is something that is both my strong and weak point. Since I like reading books from all fields of study, I am familiar with various cases and concepts which can be used to strengthen my reasoning. I am especially familiar with connecting events in the past with ideas that are relevant to the case at hand. For instance, I remember being complimented on my usage of stirrups as a case where nomads’ open attitude toward foreign culture and its mix with original culture led to an advantage over agrarian societies. On the other hand, I sometimes try to connect two seemingly unrelated fields and fail to persuade the reader that my choice of evidence was fit for my argument.

My writings are not straightforward and dense. One example is that I do not use many adverbs. I rather fill my sentences with nouns, verbs, and prepositions. This is an advantage from the view that readers are not dazzled by pours of unnecessary words and therefore makes my writing more to the point. However, the problem is that my writings can be too stiff and rigid to read. I believe this is can bore the readers from time to time and eventually lead to the readers becoming distracted from what I have to say. This is apparent from the fact that I used only one dialogue in a fable that was almost a page long. As a means to improve this problem I attempted to describe in more lengthy ways, but found out that my unfamiliarity makes me describe too much.

Other than the points mentioned above, I anticipate that I showed several traits in my writing that I have not yet noticed. But, I also have certain problems that have apparently been solved but reoccur when I am ignorant. Such is grammar and spelling. All ready indicated from the fact that I did not write much, I am not innocent when it comes to grammar mistakes and misspelled words. I have put effort to solving it but feel that it is not as complete as I want and that there still is a need to hone my skills.

My ultimate goal as a writer is to help readers view an issue from my perspective and find out an aspect of the matter that I found out. I hope that readers might come to understand certain issues as I did and feel the emotions that I wanted to share with others. A writer that influenced me in setting such a goal was Khaled Hosseini. Reading his book Kite Runner was a blessing to me.

However, what I will present to you is not a piece of literature. Rather it is a research paper I wrote the previous semester in Mr. Ganse’s European history course. I selected this paper because this paper deals with a field of sturdy that is very intimately related with my future career as a humanities researcher. Moreover, this paper is not a raw draft, something this class requires. Also, I spent several days researching and writing on the topic, which will give you specific hints of how much of a depth my writing contains.

Above all, I look towards the practice of editing in this class. Even though we might have written essays before in competitions and exams, we rarely had a chance to revise our work seriously. I wish to establish my own way of editing my work during this semester, which can be done most efficiently under a professional writing teacher guiding a writing course. Ergo, I hope we that we won’t be writing completely new essays all the time but editing them from time to time.

What ever the decision might be, I want to enjoy your class this semester^^.

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