How To Write A Reflective Essay

Through the year, I believe that I significantly changed as a writer, reader, and thinker. I think one of my biggest improvements as a writer was definitely my development and finding of my voice in argument and synthesis essays, especially since many of the essays I had to write in previous years were mostly objective analysis that did not require any voice in argument. As a person, I find myself to be frank and sarcastic, and I think I have incorporated some of that voice in my argument essays. This is true in the argument essay in my senior portfolio in which I argued against Singer’s stand that charity rescues impoverished countries. I incorporated many rhetorical questions in my argument essay which greatly helped to develop my voice. I also
With my sarcastic language, I was able to bring to light the faulty beliefs we as a society have towards charity and the poverty of other countries. In retrospect, I think my argument and synthesis essays are the strongest of the three types of essays in AP English, even though I had not done a single one of them three years prior to taking AP English. This brings me to my next observation. Though I am stronger in argument and synthesis essays, I think my weakness is in the rhetorical analysis. Even from freshman year, I was never strong in essays in which I had to analyze the themes and motifs of a certain novel - in the same way this year, I was never truly strong in analyzing the rhetoric of an author and explaining the purpose and