I don’t think I have certain style of writing. My style of writing changes from time to time, from situation to situation. When I want to criticize something, my tone of writing is quite cynical and objective. If I want to talk about my meaningful experience, my tone will be very warm and positive. Writer’s style of writing must change depend on what they write. Let’s suppose that writers keep a certain writing style no matter what they are writing, the piece may not be able to transport writer’s opinion to readers effectively and that writing will be useless.
Nonetheless, if I’m forced to choose my style, I will say that I’m strong in writing honestly. Although I’m poor at decorating my writing, I’m sure that I can express my opinion and thought as they are through writing. What is the purpose of writing? We write letters, articles, essays, etc. to communicate with readers, I mean, to transport writers’ opinion to readers. If there are too many decorations in the writing and main points are hidden among unnecessary sentences, readers may not be able to catch the important part. For instance, there is a sentence “I saw a man and I fall in love with him.” And a writer who likes to decorate changed the original sentence to “I saw a man with black eyes, brown hairs, small face, and I fall in love with him.” Because of too specific description, we can’t focus on main point. I am the writer who doesn’t use too much decoration. Considering the purpose of writing, I think frank expression is my strong point of writing.
However, I’m really weak at grammar. Although I check my writing pieces several times, I can’t find some mistakes. Some people say that grammar is less important if the writer can just show his or her idea. I disagree with them. Even with small grammar mistakes, the meaning of the sentence can be totally changed, and accordingly readers may misunderstand writer’s intention. As I said above, the purpose of writing is to transport writer’s intention to readers and if it can’t, that piece of writing will be useless. So, we can’t ignore the importance of grammar, which can change the whole meaning of the sentences. Furthermore, my expression is somewhat monotonous. In other words, I use same words repeatedly. Writers must appropriately paraphrase frequently repeated words, or readers will feel that the writing is boring.
So, my goal of this semester is to reduce my grammar mistakes. Since I’m not a native speaker, I can’t eliminate my mistakes completely. But I will make my every effort (to be more specific, I will reread my writing over and over again to find errors) to correct every error I can find. Furthermore, I hope that I can use more various expressions in my essays in the end of this semester. It is definite fact that various expressions are based on various vocabularies I know. I will try hard to increase my vocabulary box.
