Paris Lee
English 2201-027
6 April 2020
Reflective Essay
Introduction
During the period of this course we have had numerous papers to do and I feel I have become better or made less mistakes when writing. For the most part of this course I don’t think I struggles with much except trying to find the amount sources we needed for our papers, whether or not the sources were going to be credible, and the different sources we had to use. I feel these issues were challenging for me because we had to use different sources for our paper and sometimes, I couldn’t find the right source for what I needed or a source that didn’t have enough information. This issue hasn’t impacted my writing so far because I haven’t let it. I’ve prevailed through this and found sources that worked for me. I think the writing skills I’ve improved over this semester was just basically making sure my paper was in the right form and structure when it came to MLA format. My strengths as a writer is knowing the information and being able to write a well form essay off of what I just read also knowing how to show correct in-text citations. Another strength I have is to paraphrase without actually copy and pasting or word for word from a source unless I’m doing in-text citation. The strengths show through my grades as well when the professor comments on any section and doesn’t have anything bad to say or say to fix it.
Rhetorical Analysis
When first being introduced to the Rhetorical analysis I wasn’t too familiar with writing a paper on such a broad topic like the one we’re writing now because I didn’t know what a rhetorical analysis paper was. But as we started to talk about and was presented with an article that we had to analyze, I soon gained knowledge. I learned that in rhetorical analysis paper you must be informative but also have some form of being persuasive. This form of writing is different from other writing styles because you’re basically trying to analyze the arguments of an article at which it is being presented and then writing about what you thought the author was saying in whatever the article is about. When writing other types of essays in college you’re analyzing them but the style of essay you might be writing may not include you to analyze but simply state which side of the argument you are on or what you agree with. What I struggle with the most was the actual reading of the article because for one it was 20 pages but also because the language at which the article had was a bit difficult to understand. I had to read maybe 3 times to comprehend what the article was saying. The things I did well on were definitely the writing of the essay part because like I said I reread the article maybe 3 times so each time I read it I gained more knowledge and that knowledge I was able to write and make my information sound good.
Exploratory Essay
Writing this Exploratory essay, I learned new things about the field of work I’m going into. I learned new things and some facts I already had prior knowledge about. The Exploratory essay is different from other forms of writing because you’re specifically writing about a field/career of work that you intend to go into or study abroad in. The exploratory essay also lets you learn about the field of work you’re going into. This will allow you to pull information and facts and put them in an essay form that will inform your readers what your field of choice is. I believe it was fairly easy not to take a position on the topic because you are just listing and stating facts about your career. Being, the type of essay this is plays a role in other essays in college because when you’re looking for information you not just looking at one type of source you’re looking at 5 different types of sources that could potentially give you great information. This essay allows you when writing other essays allow you to dig deep and find information. The thing I struggled most with was the different types of sources we had to use because the sources we had to use either didn’t give enough information or I couldn’t find a source that was tailored to the question I wanted to know. The overall essay I feel I did great on.
Research Essay
After writing my Research essay I learned that the paper must be very organized but also have a lot. of sources that back up your evidence and these sources have to be credible sources also. The research paper isn’t that different from other writing forms because in other writing forms you need evidence to back whatever the argument is and you need credible sources. and think other writing forms show this but the only difference was that for this research paper we had three arguments but those arguments we had to find solutions to whatever our problem was. It wasn’t difficult to find the information it was more difficult to find different sources that had more Information or different Information than what you already had. It was fairly easy to stick with one position. This type of essay plays a huge role in college because not only are you doing a paper but you are learning how to properly research and numerous amounts of information from different sources but also argue what side or position you are on. The things I struggled with was finding enough sources that didn’t give me the same Information or the least amount of information. I also struggled with the refutation because the prompt had the Information as of the main arguments so I was confused about if this was just a 4th main argument or something along that line until I emailed the professor and got the correct information I needed to fix my refutation for my second. draft.
Multimodal Project
I learned that when doing a multimodal project it has to be in a particular format meaning all slides have to be narrated, no more than 15 pictures, no more than 5 slides can have words, and the project should be no more than 5 minutes. This project is different from any other form of writing because first, it’s a PowerPoint project in which you are presenting. This is a project that we are doing based on our Research proposal paper. In any other form of writing or paper, I’ve never done a Power point that I would go hand with a paper. For my topic, it was fairly easy to find a 30 second-1 minute because my topic is a very controversial subject so there was bound to. be videos out there that I could use. The thing I struggled with most was getting the project to be 5 mins because in the multimodal description it doesn’t say how long the narrated slides had to be and since my topic is very controversial I have a lot of great information meaning my main arguments were more than 250 words but more like 400 and up. So, I don’t know how long my presentation will be because of my narrated slides because there wasn’t a clear understanding of how long the slides had to be but how long the presentation has to be. Now granted we’re not at school and we can’t present will he take off for the presentation being more than 5 minutes? The things I did well was just creating the project itself but for each slide taking my time and making sure this project was good quality.
Conclusion
After completing this course, I feel I could have done better with asking of more questions. I Feel after completing this course I’m most proud of myself for just staying self-motivated and maintaining an A in the course all semester. I feel the assignments we did they will reflect tremendously in the outside world because I know how to tackle problems and problem solve how to do certain task. Applying my knowledge from this course to other courses will allow me to know how to research correctly and or just know how to write papers especially when I get into some of my Major classes. For a person who might take this class in the future all I just say is stay focus and keep your head screwed on tight because this course can get hard if you make It and don’t pay attention but if you pay attention you’ll be alright.
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