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Throughout my middle school and high school years, I have struggled with writing because it does not really interest me; in terms of a career. Besides of the lack of interest in writing, I will still put the best paper forward in my eyes to be turned, in because I care about having good grades and preparing myself for the future. Therefore, to plan for my future, I plan to take the ACT, The American College Testing Program, where I plan to achieve a score as close to thirty-six as possible. Even though, I know that it is highly unlikely for me to obtain a score of thirty-six, I hope to obtain a score of at least thirty-two. Since I know that it is going to be very tough to achieve a score of thirty-two, I plan to take the ACT multiple times …show more content…
In English/Writing I believe I struggle in sentence variety, revising of my papers, deciding if a sentence is a sentence or run-on and where to put certain types of punctuation. In the terms of sentence variety, I struggle in that section because despite having many ideas to transmit the point I across, I oftenly use the same words over and over again just using a different layout to say something else. Also, I struggle in sentence variety because I do not have a huge vocabulary on different words to use; so in my opinion that when I use the same words over and over again, I often bore the reader. I would like to extend my vocabulary enough so that I am able to consistently use different words rather than the same old words. Despite struggling in sentence variety, I also struggle in the revising portions of my papers. When I revise my papers I see the small things such as, misspelled words and punctuation, but I miss the big things such as, run-ons and fragments. Although misspelled words and punctuation mess up my paper a lot they do not mess up my paper like run-ons and fragments do. I believe that I miss the run-ons and fragments a lot because it is my writing and if it sounded right in my mind the first time, it will sound right in my time the second and third times I read it. Another idea I struggle in is punctuation because if I believe …show more content…
The goals I have set for myself are: improvement in sentence variety, to improve my vocabulary, be able to recognize punctuation errors more and finally the revising of my papers. To improve in my sentence variety I believe that I will have to read more books to see many different types of vocabulary, and once I do that, I plan to apply it to my sentences. Once I do this I firmly believe that my sentences will become one hundred percent better and so will my vocabulary because I will not use the same words over and over again. Vocabulary and sentence variety goes hand-in-hand, and if I obtain one of those goals; I believe that it will help me obtain the other goal. Next, I believe that if I am able to recognize run ons and fragments in my papers, they will flow a lot better and make more sense with less mistakes. As of right now I believe fragments and run ons are my biggest problem in terms of writing; once I am able to overcome this obstacle of writing, my writing will elevate to the next level, in my opinion. Finally, if I am able to revise my papers better the first time, it will make my life so much easier. This will make my life so much easier because if I can correct something the first time I do it, it will save me time in the future, so that I do not have to go back and fix it once I see my grade on the paper. Despite all these

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