Essay 1 was difficult for me, but I ended up finding it manageable. One of the biggest problems I had with it was with the sample student essay that I was trying to analyze. I felt like I had to read that essay several times over just to get to the point where I understood its meaning well enough. On the top of that I didn’t understand the instruction and I made some mistakes. At first attempt, I wrote it in totally wrong format. However, after the essay I became more aware of mistakes in formatting and citation in my own work. I used to overlook issues like overspacing and wrong formatting in my works cited page, which I now pay much closer attention to. I also understood that I sometimes included sentences that felt like filler\u2014like they were just there to make the essay seem longer, when in fact I could have said what I needed to say in fewer words. Overall, I recognized that I need to pay more attention to making my writing precise and to developing my ideas in a way that feels more satisfying.
\nThis assignment has enabled me to find areas where I need to improve, and I will apply the lessons I have learned to future essays. I will be more evaluative and more argument-based, and I will refer back to the text to support the kind of claims I am making, ensuring that my claims are clearly stated and that my writing is, overall, more clear and focused. I also learned that I should pay attention to the details of formatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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