Reflection -Essay 1

When I think of writing I think about writing down all my ideas and elaborating as much as possible. I know sometimes that can hurt you when your writing essays because you have to respond to a prompt or argue a text. But I just love when I get to write about topics that relate to me. Who doesn’t love to free write ? I feel like that’s when you get to see the authors viewpoint or tone. But with these new methods and strategies involved with writing that I am learning, it’s a little bit challenging. Especially for me since I’m used to writing a certain type of way, but you know as I got to college my writing style has definitely changed for the better.

So during this assignment I tried organizing everything before the draft and the final. Like I drew out a outline of all my sources and the important ideas I wanted to highlight when I type it. Additionally, I also reread and scanned my articles. I used a new strategy that I never did when writhing papers and that is widen my search span, I used to think google had everything. But when I searched in the CUNY database and the libraries for book and articles there was just something that clicked for me. While writing the draft I never really worked with stance, and genre. So I think that tripped me up. Also I felt there were times I was being repetitive, so I have to work on that. So I know In the future I will definitely be using the CUNY database for reliable sources. I feel like it was successful, Although I will be using other strategies in the future for writing papers. I may have to alter my strategy just a little because it’s all over the place, and not working efficiently as I want it to be. This essay was a great start for me learning types of writing and why we use it in our papers. I look forward to see the next essay.

Comments ( 2 )

  1. Ayesha Abdul-Fattaah
    Hi Armani, I love to freewrite as well. I agree that what we are learning is challenging us to better our writing and is also different from how I am used to writing. Your outline idea Is cool, I think I also tend to make an outline before writing. For the next essay, I will intentionally make a more elaborate outline. I also want to work on lessening repetition throughout my essays. Reading my essays aloud usually helps me with that. I did not think to use the CUNY database to look for each source. Except for the scholarly article, I used google mostly. However, now that you mention it, I will try to us that application more than google for the next assignment. I wish you a happy writing for our upcoming essay. Thank you! - Ayesha
  2. Marat Potapov
    Hey Armani freewriting is something that I also love to do. I also love the fact that you organized everything before the draft and the final essay. I attempted to but ended up almost free writing it and then editing it to suit my needs. I honeslty think that is something I need to work on more, and plan it out so it is more concise. Regarding the CUNY database I didnt use it to find my sources but I thought it was an interesting thing to look into. I may use it for out next assignment. So thanks for the ideas. Good luck on your next essay. -Marat

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