Magda's Academic Writing Self-Assessment

When I write formal essays, I've found that one of my strengths is coming up with ideas and organizing them well. I'm good at brainstorming and choosing ideas that I like and then presenting them in a way that makes sense and is easy to read. However, sometimes I tend to "talk out" my own ideas on paper, causing me to sometimes repeat the same idea several different ways. So readers are often able to understand my ideas relatively well, but sometimes feel beaten over the head with them. In an essay I wrote my freshman year, for example, I did a rhetorical analysis of an excerpt from Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar, and while I was proud of the analysis that I did and thought I communicated it simply and clearly, I could find several places where I sounded a slightly redundant, which I feel might have been kind of frustrating for the reader.