Unskilled Writers

Am I an unskilled writer? Right away I would respond "yes" to this question. But what is an unskilled writer? Sondra Perl, the author of "The composing processes of unskilled college writers", tried to create an objective system to describe what writers were doing when they were writing. To me it means that you are not a natural writer. Mostly because the literary skills are probably not fully developed and unskilled writers struggle with everything from structure, organization and flow. What made Perl the most significant researcher on this field was that she actually studied a group of people who struggled with writing. Previous researchers had studied people who were already proficient writers. Perl understood that it's better to take hold of those already struggling with writing processes, to find out what lies behind to be an unskilled writer. That makes more sense to me.

Some researchers refers to unskilled writers as beginners. Perl does not like this label, and her findings in the study argues against seeing her research students as beginners. It ought to not necessarily imply that they are proficient writers. I will say GO Perl, I am not a perfect writer, but I'm not a beginner on the field either. I have a way to go to become a good writer. The more I write, the better I will be, hopefully. Some strategies I use, which I'm not going to write too much about right now is, to write as many drafts as I need, write whatever sounds good at that moment, correcting my grammar in the end the paper, making a mind-map, get other people to read my drafts and focus on my audience and the purpose of my paper.

Do you see yourself as an unskilled writer? And what is your opinion about that term?