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Essay / What are the strengths and weaknesses of college essays
To explain, my weaknesses in style errors occur in all of my essays: “Cause and Effect of Technology and Globalization,” “Financial Advisors on Today's Workplace” and “Too Much Government Spending? The instructor's analysis of the three essays addresses the following stylistic errors which consist of sentence fragments, pronoun references, parallel structures, coordinated and unnecessary words ("Cause and Effect..." 1-5; " Financial advisors…” 1-5; “Too much spending…” 1-5). Another illustration of my writing from the essay “Cause and Effect of Technology and Globalization” is a sentence fragment: “That is, employers are looking for graduates…” The correction to the fragment from sentence and sentence revision appear here by changing the sentence fragment from “that” to “In other words” (“Cause and effect…” 3). To demonstrate another weakness in my writing, it is the use of unnecessary words. An example of this is "...employers require their new employees to acquire for a position...", and the unnecessary word is "acquire", and either the expression is unnecessary in the sentence or it could be expressed as more concise way (“Financial Advisors…” 1). These examples show how I have weaknesses in my writing style. Without a doubt, being able to use style is essential because it illustrates tone, and professionalism in my writing can improve an opinion about my essay. For this reason, I want to get the proper writing style as one of my