About me AND the Class
(The Self-Assessment Essay)
English is my second language, always has been, always will be. Although I may know it well enough to speak it fluently, it sometimes becomes a task when I’m writing. In this class I’ve had to face these struggles head-on. I’ve read so many articles, and because of those articles, my vocabulary and writing skills have improved quite a lot. Now, this doesn’t mean that I can already get rid of Grammarly because my grammar is now impeccable, it just means that I’ve improved on a lot, and there is still a lot to improve on.
In this site, you will find yourself looking at all the work we did in class, from beginning to end, and for each work, I will provide a piece of evidence proving that there were strong points in my work and points where I need to get better, aka a small reflection. The small reflections will also be explaining my thought process while writing the piece.
Rhetorical Essay
REFLECTION: Unlike in my metaphor paper, the conclusion was a really strong area in my rhetorical essay. It repeats the statement I had introduced in the beginning and contains an open ending. For this essay, my weak spots were when in my transitioning areas. Every time I had to start a new paragraph and sometimes even a new sentence, I would find my self repeating the starting words over and over. For example, one of my body paragraphs started with, “Kennedy started her article with a small anecdote…” and not long after that paragraph, I started a new paragraph with, “Kennedy used another anecdote to explain how she went about her research…”. Both of these sentences are essentially saying the same thing, with almost the same words. Because of this, I feel like I should’ve done a better job at making the first sentence of each of my paragraphs a bit more interesting in order to keep the readers hooked.
Here’s the link for the full essay
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NpKFH4L_0F0D6Ex76uJTUAxpiT84hm1tuaFy3UuMgl0/edit?usp=sharing
The Group Research Project!
REFLECTION: this was a project that in my opinion went very well, considering the disastrous possibilities that are bound to happen when working with a group. For this research project, first, we had to find what, medically related thing, we wanted to research about, which I believe was one of the hardest parts. Once that was done it was pretty much uphill from there. Now building the presentation was a piece of cake, the part that took up most of our time was the lab report because we had to keep going back and adding/removing information. For instance, we had to make sure that the results included as many numbers as possible, and we also had to find an organization that would help the cause we were researching( and when we couldn’t we became the organization, hence the matching shirts with AMWH).
Here is a link that will take you to the Lab Report we made
.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cA-gBzPLgz1Mu49Yzx1qsvLVPITS3OjfBFKnH96H4bg/edit?usp=sharing
An Autobiography…But Not Mine
Reflection: this was one of the first assignments given to us. We basically had to write an autobiography based on the person sitting next to us. I didn’t really have struggles with this assignment other than the fact that I didn’t write the answer for one of the questions I had asked. I really enjoyed this assignment because, yes it was a learning experience but it also helped me interact and make friends with one of my classmates.
Metaphors
REFLECTION I: The text above is showing the introduction to my metaphor paper. This introduction is something that I can confidently say made my paper a whole lot better than it would’ve been. It started out with a hook, it continued with the right amount of information on what the rest of the text was going to be about, and it gave readers an idea of what the author’s (me) opinion was on the topic.
REFLECTION II: Now this text above is also from my metaphor paper, however, I was not as confident in it as I was with my introduction. This is the conclusion of the essay. the reason why I don’t feel very confident is not that it’s short but because it’s not meaningful. The conclusion is the last thing the readers read and if you just close off your whole essay repeating the same information the rest of your essay was saying, it’s not going to really make the conclusion memorable.
Here’s a link to the full essay
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aPdx7XfbAr7iMdEWJ59mQQCy6f28PWaQ9FZKw_7iLP0/edit?usp=sharing
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