My Writing Goals for the Semester

In my life, I have ridden a roller coaster of different styles of writing. In high school, I was taught to be the analytic writer. Upon entering college, I was challenged to begin to develop my voice as a writer. However, last semester, I was forced to become a journalist. This has changed my writing style in a lot of different ways. However, the most noticeable of those changes is that I have lost many of my, as my mother would call them, "big words." I have gotten into the terrible habit of writing all of my sentences in the same general way, while trying to make the vocabulary as comprehendable possible. During this semester, it is my hope to bring back a little spice to my writing. I also hope to get out of the habit of using passive voice. I tend to use it a crutch to vary my sentence structure. However, I want to become a better writer that doesn't need to change the tense of my sentence in order to gain variety.