Puja Parekh
February 2, 2006
A1
The Myers-Brigg personality test classified me
as an Extroverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging person. I think
this evaluation does match my writing and reading styles quite
well. One feature of Extroverts is that they “tend to
leap into writing with little planning, using trial and error”
(144). This is very true of me, not only in all of my discussion
board entries but also in my P1 essay on Robert Rodriguez from
last semester. I have also noticed that I often have an easier
time creating an outline “after writing a first draft
as a means of clarifying rather than generating ideas”
(144). As a Sensing person, I am supposed to “do well
on objective tests” (140). The Alice test from last semester
can attest to this fact. True to the Feeling qualities, I prefer
to talk about “values” and my “feelings”,
often using “human examples” (141). My discussion
board entries for all of the books from last semester are covered
with my own feelings about the material. I like to write about
topics I care about, and usually have trouble meeting length
requirements for topics I have no feelings for. My P1 project
on Robert Rodriguez, for example, covered a subject I really
cared about. So it is no big surprise that I had a relatively
easy time writing multiple pages on the filmmaker. As I mentioned
last semester, I tend to stick to factual writing, which is
why I am better at writing essays for History than creative
essays for English. Like the Judging types, I tend to start
writing without having “collected enough information or
generated adequate ideas” (151), which ends up with my
not having enough information to write about. I think that although
individually these may not exactly hit the mark, together these
qualities present a relatively adequate picture of me.
