Patterns of Error

1) I need to be more concise: In my writing, I tend to be more wordy than is necessity to complete a writing assignment, in particular,  I tend to repeat some of my ideas throughout my writing, which causes my papers to be longer than needed. By wordy, I mean that I typically use more words and sentences to explain my ideas than is needed and this has an effect on the readers by that they get confuse on what I trying to saying in my paper. Also I tend to repeat myself a lot in my papers, which also confuses the readers and doesn't allow my paper to flow. I know this is very difficult for me to pay attention to and to fix because I do this a lot in my papers, but when I do revisions on my papers, I need to pay closer attention to what I am saying in my papers so as to make sure I am not repeating myself and I am not using more words to explain my ideas than is needed.

2) I need to organize my ideas better: As stated before, my papers sometimes aren't organize as well as I want them to be. This is because I either repeat my ideas several times in my paper or that I didn't put key important ideas in the beginning of my paper and the non-important ideas at the end. By repeating, I mean that I repeat ideas I have stated before in other body paragraphs in paragraphs that don't relate to them, which confuses the readers by that there are multiple ideas in one paragraph. Also, sometimes I don't organize my paper the best way. I state the less important ideas first and the more important last or I don't put the most important idea right in the middle of my paper and the readers wouldn't understand what I am trying to say. To fix this, I need to make sure that the most important ideas are place right in the middle of my paper and my ideas goes from most important to less important. Also I need to pay attention to what I am writing in my paragraphs so that I am not repeating myself.

3) I need to work on basic writing skills: By this, I mean sentence structures, noun-adjective match, fragment or run-on sentence and others. By my final draft, these problems are mostly fixed, but still there are some that I don't see that make it to my final draft. I typically don't have fragments in my paper, but I do sometimes have run-on or comma splices. I also mixes up the noun-adjective relationship. I sometimes use singular adjective for plural nouns or vice versa. The effects of this is that the readers will become confuse because they don't know who I am talking about. They also will think that I am not a good writer because I have fragments, run-on or comma splices in my paper and that I can't do revisions on my paper. The solution to this is again paying more attention to what I am writing. Using Microsoft word, I won't have problems with fragments and noun-adjective relationship because they are flagged. I just need to review basic writing skills in general because I feel that is my biggest problem when I write in general and  if I don't have the basic writing skills down, I will always have problems when I write.