In Chapter 1 of Essentials of College Writing, you reviewed a comprehensive list of typical college writing tasks, and you had the opportunity to identify two tasks as strengths and two tasks as weaknesses. In Week One, you completed the Practice Essay and Grammar Assessment. In your initial post for this discussion:

Describe at least one task that you believe you did well on when writing the Practice Essay in Week 1.
Describe one task that you believe you need to work on based on your experience writing the Practice Essay.
Describe three grammar errors that you had the most difficulty with on the Grammar Assessment. To be able to do so, go into the Gradebook and click on your quiz score. When you see a question with a red “X” next to it, this signals that it was answered incorrectly.
Share what you plan to do to further maximize your strengths and resolve your weaknesses.
Use specific examples.
Ask a question about this week’s assigned reading.

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Writing tasks can be strengths or weaknesses for a writer. In my case, for the week one practice essay, I believe the conduction of research on the internet was superb. This is because the whole essay was based in research on the internet from where I was able to come up with the essay in performance enhancing drugs. In addition to that, the task of generation of ideas was also a strength given that the ideas provided the much needed flow in the paper. However, among the tasks that were a weakness include using the right grammar in the writing process.

Among the grammatical errors that I was prone to included use of passive voice, punctuation and having wordy sentences in the writing. It is only after improving these three areas that I can term my paper as one that is free of grammatical mistakes …

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