My Writing Reflection

Over the course of my high school career I have managed to pinpoint my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. I critique myself in all aspects of my life due to my highly competetative personality so it should come as no suprise that this includes my writing. My list of weaknesses are indeed much longer than my strengths but that list continues to expand. The most grade damaging habit I have, as do many others, is procrastination. Its an epidemic that sweeps through high schools across America and ails many into adulthood. This habit has plagued me since second grade, the first year homework was introduced to me. I have just now started to get this issue under control but it is a daily struggle of mind over body. The simple fact of the matter
is I much rather sleep or watch Game of Thrones than work. I'll find ways to justify my naps with excuses such as, "Well, I can't work tired!" or "I deserve a break I was at school for like eight hours." Now I force myself to sit down and start everything as soon as I get it. Depending on how long the assignment is this almost always works. The actual mechanics of my writing in particular are, in my opinion, decent.
There are several practices, organization especially, that I most definetly need to work on. When writing a paper I start writing by hand and re write it three or four times. It sounds okay until you realize that it happend to be a five page paper and it has taken two hours a draft. I have a scattered train of thought so the numerous drafts are a must. There is no way I can turn in a paper that is poorly written without being incredibly restless in fear of a poor grade. Pairing the high quantity of drafts and my procrastination you can see how this may be a bad combonation. The only way to fix my organization problem, as far as I know, is to practice and to continue writing. My biggest problem has to be my poor analyization skills. The connections I make are just grassping at straws. The best analyzations I have are from the internet, they're the same conclusions everyone else in the class comes to but I never see them by myself. Due to this I find myself being repetative and I hate repetition. This is the sole reason that I can't make a good concluding paragraph. It's the last thing anybody reading sees, it has to be strong and well rounded but anything that repeats just gets to
me. With that being said my best asset of mine is forming an incredible thesis paragraph. It wasn't until last year that I perfected it in AP U.S History. We practiced them just about every class but we switched the thesis statement from the end to the begining. All of the best analyzation goes into this paragraph though. When branching off into other smaller topics in the body it tends to be sloppy and I, again, run out of things to write about.