Skills to be Learned

There are a lot of skills that I am not very good at. There are some on the list that I am very unfamiliar with too. I need to improve on some of the skills on the list as well as get better at using them too.

Writing longer papers is an issue I have today. I can never think about a lot to write about. I always tend to repeat myself when I start to run out of things to say, to make my paragraph longer. I would like to start writing long papers, so I can look really professional because to me people, who can write long papers, are very successful in life.

I want to get better at knowing what to do when I get stuck. I always get stuck at writing a paper. Its like I forget what I am writing about or I just simply do not have anything else to write about. It gets really annoying when you are writing such a good paper and you simply just run out of things to talk about. I waste precious time thinking what to I am going to write next when I am stuck. I would like to get better at this, so I can save time and not get stuck in the middle of my paper.

I’m good at understand the difference between revising and editing, but I want to get a better understanding of the two. I always used to say they are the same meaning, but now I found out they are not. If I get a understanding of the two, I will be able to go back and fix my mistakes better, and also have a better organized and understandable paper.  If I know how to do both of these skills, this will help me a lot with editing my papers.

Understanding plagiarism has to be at the top of becoming better at. If I learn to read something of the internet and be able to turn it into my own words it would become more helpful to me. I tend to just copy and paste cause the teacher never really checks for it, but I want to be able to write something from my own thoughts and what not. It would not only help me a lot but also make me feel more confident in my writing skills.                                        

Learning how to use different tones and voices would be a major increase of my writing skills. I really do not know how to write in different tones or voices, but I feel like if I learned how to do that, it would make my papers sound a lot better and more interesting. It would a skillful thing to learn how to do.

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