Brandon Martinez

ERWC

Mrs Hooks Period 1

7 February 2019

House on Mango Street Reflection Paragraph

While revising my House on Mango Street essay, I was able to improve on a plethora of

grammar mistakes. These mistakes included punctuation errors, capitalizations mistakes, and

spacing issues made me realize that I have improved greatly on my basic writing skills over my

four years here at Great Oak. If I had tried to turn in this essay for a grade today, I wouldn’t be

surprised if I failed. In this essay, I also failed to include a thesis in the beginning paragraph. I

improved on this by adding my thesis as the first sentence of the essay so that the reader would

immediately know what it is that I’m writing about as opposed to just being thrown into an essay

with no reference to what I’m talking about. If an essay that I wrote today had no thesis, it

wouldn’t be possible to get a grade higher than a B on that assignment. Lastly, my essay did not

have a strong closing paragraph. Instead, the final sentence begins with “In conclusion” and

doesn’t close out the essay very effectively at all. To fix this, I added a fifth paragraph to the end

of the essay to wrap up the ideas talked about in the writing and to end the essay in a way that

flows better with the rest of the essay. By revising this essay, I was able to see how much my

writing has improved over the last four years and correct errors that would have otherwise gone

unnoticed and unchecked. Thanks to this assignment, I was able to improve my writing skills

further and reflect on how I can use these skills to do better on future writing assignments.