Maddi's Academic Writing Self-Assessment

In my academic writing, I tend to approach it as one would a recipe-- I take all of my ingredients (thesis statement, evidence, reasoning, etc.) and put it together to make a paper. Because of this my papers tend to be more organized than my creative writing, however, it also can lend to problems of losing my voice and style as I write. In my Persuasive Writing class last semester we wrote a 10 page research paper on how the way we eat affects our mental health, and collecting evidence and reasoning with it seemed to come a little easier to me, however the editing process took up a lot of my time because the way I had written the paper had become quite dull. In an effort to hit all the check marks I had lost my passion of the topic I was discussing!