Reflecting from my summer essay to the To Kill a Mockingbird essay, I realise that my transitions have made an excellent segway from being very choppy, and sudden to being relatively okay. Definitely an area which requires more work but so far, good progress has been made. Overall structure has also improved from being a soggy mess to something with reasonable supports and shape.
As mentioned before, my transitions could definitely use a bit of a boost. Being someone who primarily writes creatively as opposed to informatively, I utilize blunt transitions and dead stops in my writing as a way of dramatizing whatever is going on. This habit had seeped into informative writing and should be a main goal to try and cut short.
I feel that actually enjoying your topic makes it easier to write about it, and this ties in with the initial points being the easiest part. It's easy to state your point when you're emotionally invested in something because you have so many, and an interest to acquire data to back them up.
An overall goal for my writing would be to stay on topic. I get sidetracked easily in my writing and deter from an offshoot of the thesis to something more specific and, occasionally unrelated. It's easy for me to get pulled into one minute detail and spring off a thousand different ways from that than to remain remotely close to the topic. I think that this is a very critical goal for me, moreso than anything else.