Strengths and Weaknesses

As a student, I don't write essays unless I'm in an English class because I'm currently taking mostly Veterinary Technology classes. However, in my spare time I often write poems, stories, letters, in my journal, etc.
I have taken quite a few English classes in the past and I help teach a homeschool English class for middle schoolers, but I often forget little things like comma usage and quotations. I think that's the biggest weakness that I have when it comes to academic writing. The specifics of grammar are quite easy to forget if you don't write academically often, so that has been hard for me in this English class.
Writing has been fairly easy for me throughout my life, so I always enjoyed English classes. For the most part, when I write an academic essay the first thing I put down is what will end up in the final draft. I'm not one to write several drafts of the same paper, I just think carefully about what I want to say before I write it down. To some people that may not seem to be a strength, but to me it is. Writing quickly is a strength when it comes to academia and it has helped me out in the past.

Literary analysis is a completely different story. I've always looked deep into the books I read, but it is sometimes to get my thoughts to form into an idea coherent enough to put down on paper. My literary analysis skills improved a lot due to the help and teaching of my eighth grade teacher Mrs. Agnew and my highschool English teacher Mrs. Martin. While taking their classes I've learned different ways to analyze literature and poetry and how to understand some of the more difficult forms of literature like Shakespeare, etc.
My strengths in literary analysis are therefore being able to see into the story behind the words, extrapolating with the data I'm given by an author and seeing into a character's heart.
The difficult thing about literary analysis, however, is that everyone sees something different in a story. Not everyone reads the same thing between the lines. This is a weakness for me when it comes to literary analysis. I often think of odd, random ideas that make perfect sense to me but not to anyone else. When it comes to literary analysis on my own this isn't a problem, but it can become one if a teacher likes more typical answers.