Self Evaluation
            
             Writing is one of the things in life I've considered myself good at. Growing up I always excelled at it. I became known as "the writer" of the family. I was constantly drafted by my extended family to head certain projects, such as creating a written family history and even writing final remembrances for family funerals. Often for relatives I didn't even know. In accepting my "god given talent" (as my family referred), I have often questioned what makes a good writer. When I arrived at college I realized there are many unique characteristics that make one's writing good, and that there must be inherit balance among those characteristics. Specifically, when I entered into my English composition class I learned that within all great writing lies fundamental principles that must be studied and practiced. These principals, as described in the syllabus, are content, clarity, style, and integrity. Looking over these principals, I feel that, while I have a great start, I still have a lot to learn and practice before really being able to utilize my writing in the way that I want. For me, style, content, and to some extent integrity come relatively easy, but my writing needs to be clearer, especially for writings in college. Nevertheless, I am a quick learner and I feel that my strengths far outweigh my faults. The grade I am expecting in this class is an "A"
             When I was young I used to read comics for hours on end. I had my heart set on becoming a comic artist. After many crudely drawn super hero hands and crumpled notebook pages, I decided that I would be a writer instead. In reading those thousands upon thousands of comics I started to differentiate between the styles of the various writers. The guy that wrote Spiderman seemed to write more natural sounding dialogue than the guy that wrote the Green Lantern, and so on. So I started to develop my own style of writing comics, based on these wonderfu...