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Sujavena Boonyindee

Professor Batty

English 28

Dec 14, 2017

Reflection: Argumentative

For the argumentative essay, I wrote about some problems that immigrants had to

overcome to be living comfortably in the new country. I thought I had written a quite

considerable essay. By submitting the essays proposal, bibliography, and the outline one at a

time prior to writing the whole essay, this helped me a lot in organizing my essay and this made

it a little more less complicated for me to write my essay. In order to finish the essay, aside from

reading the requirement book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, I did a lot of research

by reading lots of articles from various websites and also talked to my family members about

immigration, since they were also immigrants and had direct experience about the topic that I

chose.

For me, being a third generation that was born and raised as an American-Thai girl,

growing up in both Thai and American cultures. I was able to understand some of the conflicts

that some immigrants were facing, but some conflicts were beyond my comprehension. Reading

lots of articles and the book had help me a lot in understanding circumstances of immigrants

from various parts of the world. Each family had their own difficulties that they had to overcome

in different ways. Their hardship of transition periods was also varied. Even though, there were
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some obstacles that were in common, somehow how they overcome those obstacles were

depended on each individuals.

Writing though the end of the essay, I had learnt how to construct a better essay.

Outlining the essay helped a lot in the sequence of the context. Lastly, what I learned from

writing this essay was not only how to write a better essay, but I also learned to think, to

research, and to summarize the information I gathered. Moreover, I learned different

consequences of people of different backgrounds, which helped me to understand more of the

world around me.