Reflective Essay Writing
From the many writing opportunities in this semester, I have realized that I have both strengths and weaknesses in my essay writing. For strengths, I have noticed that my skills in integrating a quote is strong because I can now integrate a quote smoothly into a sentence without an error. An example can be found in my "Synthesis Essay of "Dream House" and "His Life on the Reservation," where I wrote "Therefore, this allows him to practice his traditions, like playing "Scrabble [in his] tribal language" (Alexie, 8). Another strength that I have in the area of essay writing is that I am able to set up the whole essay using the introductory paragraph and at the same, giving the reader a sense of what will happen in the essay. An introductory paragraph
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In this course, there were many essay writing opportunities that has allowed me to improve my essay writing skills. As a result, my topic sentences for my body paragraphs are slowly improving because I am trying to state something interesting so that I can grab the reader's attention while staying on topic at the same time. An example of this can be found in my "Imagination Can Help Create A Better World" essay, where I wrote "In the blink of an eye, it was already November and Justin Trudeau had been elected as the new Prime Minister of Canada" for my second body paragraph's topic sentence. This is one my favorite topic sentences because I feel that it is interesting enough to keep the reader to continue to read my essay. However, I feel that I still need to work on my concluding sentences because I need to make it a sentence that can wrap up the body paragraph and at the same time, without being too wordy and repetitious. This problem can be found in many of my essays as I tend to restate the topic sentence and that I add unnecessary ideas into it, which causes my concluding sentence to be wordy. Moreover, another area that I need to work on is the development of my body paragraphs because due to the lack of time that I get to work on my essays, I tend to just state my
In this course, there were many essay writing opportunities that has allowed me to improve my essay writing skills. As a result, my topic sentences for my body paragraphs are slowly improving because I am trying to state something interesting so that I can grab the reader's attention while staying on topic at the same time. An example of this can be found in my "Imagination Can Help Create A Better World" essay, where I wrote "In the blink of an eye, it was already November and Justin Trudeau had been elected as the new Prime Minister of Canada" for my second body paragraph's topic sentence. This is one my favorite topic sentences because I feel that it is interesting enough to keep the reader to continue to read my essay. However, I feel that I still need to work on my concluding sentences because I need to make it a sentence that can wrap up the body paragraph and at the same time, without being too wordy and repetitious. This problem can be found in many of my essays as I tend to restate the topic sentence and that I add unnecessary ideas into it, which causes my concluding sentence to be wordy. Moreover, another area that I need to work on is the development of my body paragraphs because due to the lack of time that I get to work on my essays, I tend to just state my