In which areas do you think you need to improve? How will you make these improvements?

My areas of needing improvements are when writing an essay depending on what it is I need to find out if it should be written in 2^nd or 3^rd person. I have a habit of writing in 1^st person a lot. I also have a problem with being too wordy. In all honesty I think that comes from me being a talker. I can talk a whole lot. I need to work on using the right words and taking out unnecessary words that are irrelevant to my writing. Most of the time when I do writings it is always something that I like or what I have did and that is where writing in 1^st person comes from. I just have to remember writing in 1^st person can give me a weak essay and I want my essay to be strong for my viewers.