Academic Writing

I have to say that academic writing may be the most difficult writing styles for me. Although i have been going to school for thirteen years now, I still don't like my writing. Academic writing is hard for me because I tend to use words over and over again and It frustrates me because in my mind it makes me feel unintelligent for not knowing more. Even the most basic words used in college i tend to forget what it means like "coherent." In my experience, I think the reason I don't know more is because I try to learn all new words at once. When I went to summer school last year for college courses, I would write down any words that my instructor said which didn't understand and after class I would go home and review them write their definitions and try to memorize the definitions all in one day and through my experience, I now realized that that was a bad idea to do and not strain my brain so much. Now I know that learning takes time and if I would have broken the words down like trying to learn two or three words a day, I think that my vocabulary would be more open than it is right now. I learned from my mistake and now I know not to try to take EVERYTHING in one day and just gradually learn and you will get it.