Annie's Academic Writing Self-Assessment

Academic writing to me, usually is a bit overwhelming in the beginning. Usually though, once I get going with a good idea, once I work out a good thesis I can go from there. If there is something that I struggle with in Academic writing you will find it in the editing process. Maybe not uncommonly I hate scrutinizing my work, over and over again. The last paper I wrote (somewhere around 3 years ago) for my English 251 class was a good paper as far as cohesion and analysis goes, but I know if I would have spent more time tweaking it and rewriting I would have been more satisfied with the paper as a whole. That being said, a strength I have is structure. I try to focus on making my academic writings reflect my thesis statement. I stay on track with the points I'm trying to make and focus on cohesion between ideas.