Hello my name is Abdoul Tandia. I’m a sophomore here at city college and I’m currently majoring in Business Management and Administration. I have taken this class last semester with a different professor, but I had ended up dropping the class and now I am taking it again this semester because it’s a required credit. I don’t feel like I have many strengths when it comes to being a writer. If I had to choose one of my strengths, I’d probably have to say that I am pretty good with editing my own writing and coming up with original ideas. But when it comes to my weaknesses, I could maybe even fill this whole page. If I had to name a few the first one would be is that when I come with up an idea, I sometimes get stuck when I’m writing, and I can’t elaborate and really write about what I really want to write about. Another one would be that that sometimes I make really long sentences that drag on and on or sometimes I even make my writing somewhat boring to the reader which is something I really trying to avoid but it always happens at some point in my writing. When it comes to being a researcher, I wouldn’t really know what my strengths and weaknesses are because I have never really thought about it but if I had to come with one off the top of my head, I would probably say a strength of mine is finding resources to support my research and a weakness would be finding a credible resource that can support my research. I hope to learn a lot in this class about how to interview people and conduct research effectively, since I’ve taken this class before I learned a little bit about doing this, but I really want to go more in depth with it. I also just hope to pass this class because it is a required credit for me.

            When it comes to English, I have always struggled with it throughout my whole life even since elementary school. I have always hated writing even to this day. I’ve always been told by other people that my writing is pretty good, but I have always felt that it isn’t and that it always needs corrections and needs more work. I just find writing really boring especially the whole process of writing is hard for me because I can never convey my ideas exactly how I want to. I’ve started to somewhat come together as a writer and actually tolerate writing because I have to do so much of it now that I’m in college. I just feel like one I work on those aspects of my writing I may actually start to like it.

            Reading is a whole different story. Growing up I hated to read because my parents forced me to read books as a kid and they were so boring. When I got to high school, I completely stopped reading on my own, the only time I read is when I was in school was when a teacher forced me to read a book. In my junior year of high school was when I read a book that got me really into reading which was called “The Will to Change”. After I read this book, it really got me into reading other books because it was so interesting to me, and I found things that could relate to my life and were actually interesting989 that I would have never learned without reading.             My favorite book that I have ever read is called “Lord of the Flies”. The book is about a group of kids who were stranded in a forest and had to govern themselves. This book is basically about leadership and how someone has to step up to become a leader and if not, there will be chaos. This book is meant for kids between ages 14-17 I feel like, but it has many life values that can be found while reading if you look enough. When they were left behind, they all started doing their own thing and it did not work out (kids got hungry, kids got hurt, they had lost someone at one point) so then they decided to elect someone as their leader towards the end of the book and they made it out alive at the end. When reading the book someone can see these things and see how important good leadership is in all aspects of life.

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