Portfolio final pram project - Essay Example

527 West Ave. Elmswood, CT 23865 March The English Department of English XYZ Sir, Sub: Assessing strengths and weaknesses as an Academic Writer.Ref: Evaluating by comparing one successful and a less successful essay.I would like to evaluate and assess my strengths and weakness as an Academic Writer based on the two essays I have completed- one successful and the other less successful. A critical analysis of the two essays has provided me fresh insights into what constitutes a good piece of Academic Writing and in doing so I have also noticed my shortcomings as a writer.

This has helped me to focus on my strengths as a writer and to overcome the flaws in my writing. Analyzing my less successful essay, a review of Bernhard Warner’s article, “Is Social Networking a Waste of Time,” I have understood certain defects of my writing. The analysis leads me to the inference that my writing lacks a good research, analysis, and brainstorming. I was a failure in supporting it with a powerful thesis that promotes the basis for every successful essay. I personally feel that the paragraph construction of the essay was also not so accurate because, it lacked a logical development of ideas and a proper construction.

Though I was aware that a good paragraph needs a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence, I could not maintain these features when I completed this essay. Here one topic directly jumps to another without much description or logical conclusion. The essay began as a review of the given article but ended as a study analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of Social Networking. The lack of a good research was the grave issue I felt with my less successful essay. If I had engaged in brainstorming, I could have used more key words for searching the topic on internet and thus find out valuable sources that help support the study.

I should also comprehend that only a good research leads to a good analysis and findings. A well organized introduction that ends in a thesis statement has an elite role in creating a successful essay. I have to keep in mind the fact that ‘well begun is half done.’ Also, I forgot the lesson that one should never end a paragraph with a quotation. The comparison of the less successful essay with the successful one helps me to explore certain other factors also with regard to writing. My successful essay, ‘Memories of Mother Day’ has a logical sequence of facts which I developed after brainstorming.

It also has well structured paragraphs beginning with topic sentences, supporting sentences and a very logical conclusion. The usage of language was the other issue that attracted my close attention to my two essays. I am quite sure that language has a decisive role in the creation of good essays and my successful essay exemplifies it. Though I do not claim that the language I used in it is so perfect and accurate, I know that it is improved than the language I used in the less successful essay.

I could find out many grammatical errors, problems of concord and punctuations all through the essay which really made it absurd. However, now I am confident enough to write essays rectifying the mistakes I committed in my former essays. Now I realize that writing a good essay is an art that one has to study or undertake through practice and good research. It should have a logical development, well constructed paragraphs supported with a thesis as the beads on a thread. The analysis and findings to should lead to a factual conclusion which together forms a good research paper as well as a good Academic Writer.

Sincerely,Name,Sd/-