Problems

In looking at my first two papers for Writing 101 I notice that there are a couple of errors that are repeated throughout both of them. I have been using the same word repeatedly, not having a strong thesis, and having not enough content.

When I wrote my first draft for my literacy narrative I could not tell that I was using the same words all the time. This made my papers seem boring when I would try to make  them really descriptive.Later throughout writing other drafts of papers I realized(even there I was going to use "I would" which was in the previous sentence) that I was doing the same thing. The only way to fix this is by reading each draft a few times to spot the same words and fix them.

Both papers I wrote did not have a strong thesis. This is really hard for me to do because a lot of times when I try to have a specific thesis I might get off topic, and when I am off topic it is hard to get me back on track. I've been able to fix this by not making my thesis first, but by first writing my body paragraphs that way I will have already argued on a topic. Then I can fix that by making a strong thesis that works around my body paragraphs.

In all of my papers that I wrote this year they have been too short or to the bare minimum of the length requirement.  I do not think this affects my writing in a negative way, but that I just need to add more content to the papers. Many times I would fill the requirements as in answering the papers topic question but it would be way too short to turn in. To fix this I think the best way is by broadening my answers to these questions that way I have more to write instead of one specific topic.