Skills To Be Learned

There are several things I need to improve upon is editing peers work because I am not very confident when editing my own work. I am worried I will do something incorrect on someone else's. I am not very good at writing longer papers without rambling on. It is hard for me to write a long paper with everything included, being something important. I have a difficult time explaining my thoughts through writing. Half of the time I have ideas but I don't know how to put it on paper and make sense. I think part of the reason for this is my grammar and vocab is poor. If I had a wider vocabulary and knew different ways to correctly vary my sentences my writing would be better. Something I need to work on is self editing my papers because a lot of the time I feel as if I can't make my paper any better. Grammar and vocabulary comes in to play here again because its not jus editing your paper so that it ties back to your thesis and explanations. Several times I don't do much more to my drafts to make my final better. Lastly I know what tone, genre, purpose and context is but I have a hard time identifying the difference between what kind of tone and what the genre actually is. Sometimes when I am reading something I feel as if I am reading it different than how it is meant to be. For example if it is something serious I might not catch it. Several times biased papers did not seem that way to me at all. It could be the difficulty of the piece and having more of a difficult time with comprehension.