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Marlyn Moring

Professor Batty

English 101

11 December 2019

Persuasive Essay Reflection

To begin with, the first thing that I did was I removed one of the main elements of an

introductory paragraph, which is the hook that serves to catch the reader’s attention. I come up

with a question as a hook and I changed it into my personal experience that professor Batty

suggested to make it more conversationally. Secondly, I tried to find some grammatical errors

like comma splices and correct it even though I may not be able to identify some of those errors.

In addition, I read my essay a few times to see if I am going to catch any mechanical errors and if

I have to take away or add some words or phrases on the essay that I was working. In addition, as

what professor Batty suggested I added an idea on my counterargument to develop it and to

make it sound more convincing by answering the question “What goes on in these ESL

classes?”. Furthermore, I included my personal experience of being in an ESL class on my fourth

body paragraph, since I was one of those students who were placed in an ESL class or ELL class.

As well as that, on my fourth body paragraph I stated what the instructor teaches us and how it

helped us in some ways. Lastly, I decided to change my title from “Language Barrier Faced by

Latinx Students” to “Dealing with Language Barrier” and I know that it is not easy to come up

with a title, which for me it is very challenging because the title supposed to be creative and not

informative, but I tend to come up with a boring one.