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Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Writing
Overall I struggle with writing, I can never remember all of the grammar rules or sentence structure types. At the beginning of the year I relied on other people's opinions and revisions to make grammar and content corrections, but now I am able to have a stronger piece of writing and not be dependant on others. At the beginning of the year I had procrastinated so much to the point where it was the day of and I just started an essay, but currently I make sure I start a week before at minimum so I know I have time to go through the proper revision process and don't have to stress about it last minute. The op-ed and the speech helped me improve the most. The op-ed I started right when the assignment was given to me, this was the point where I
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