Essay#1 Reflection

Posted by Elena Yu Xu on

I believe writing is a way of communicating with others to express your ideas and conclusions toward certain things. It lets our audience to receive the knowledge through our work because it is a part of another way of expressing your voice. However, as writing has not always been one of my strengths, it is sometimes hard for me to write a good essay. But I believe that having good writing should mostly focus on grammar, and the capacity to show your purpose to the audience, so they can know what you are trying to say after they read your work. Writing a rhetorical analysis with many sources accompanied is my first-time experience, but I think it has got better from the very beginning time when we wrote it as a practice. However, after finishing the final draft of this essay, I have learned more about the processes to justify my work when I try to give data and awareness to people, by applying evidence, purpose, and different elements in an analysis. Moreover, the strategies I used for this essay were to follow the guidelines, add references, and revise many times as possible to make sure it applies the purpose of my work. After that, I think these processes were good, but not perfect because I believe it might always occur mistakes which I probably did not know. However, this essay has helped me a lot to know my weaknesses, but also to improve them through practices and hard work. It has helped me to advance my writing after the process of peer-reviewed, and advice from the instructor, which have helped me to get to know more about my level of writing.

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Elena Yu Xu

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Comments ( 5 )

  1. Edward Quezada
    I also believe writing is a way of communication between those who share similar interests with us as writers. Providing a rhetorical analysis on several articles and trying to connect them together is also new to me, but this has been a learning experience that I used to improve myself as a writer.
  2. Jiajie Liang
    I agree with you that "the capacity to show your purpose to the audience, so they can know what you are trying to say after they read your work" I think it is an essential element of a good piece of writing. I like your thoughts on writing and hope we can improve together.
  3. Alexa Morales
    I agree with your first point! writing is a way of communicating with others to "express your ideas and conclusions toward certain things". I also mentioned how writing lets you organize your thoughts and helps you understand what is going on with your ideas. when you have something to share, you should write it out. i also believe that this essay helped me realize my weaknesses, it was my first time writing an essay this long and i now know what is expected of me and will do better next time.
  4. Christine Castillo
    Hi! I also found the guidelines, peer reviews and input from the professor incredibly helpful when writing and revising. Learning about rhetorical situation was challenging but I agree that after navigating the process from start to finish it was much more clear.
  5. Faith Morales
    I agree with you when it comes to doubting yourself as a writer. In one of our first assignments in this class. I wrote about how I was nervous because I didn't know how successful I would be when writing. I think it's difficult for us to be confident in our abilities especially when trying something new. But I also believe, we will be able to improve slowly but surely and I hope we can use any new skills or techniques we learn in this class to benefit us in future assignments.

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