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Christina Gallegos

Instructor McCann

English 1302.127

20 September 2021

Essay 1: Reflection

This essay was very informative to other dancers, and people in this twitter community

that are interested in these problems. This essay information could be very helpful to someone

who is taking a dance class, or maybe even an athletic trainer course. It can apply to anyone

going into the dance or athletic field. They would be able to maybe relate or help treat a dancer

who might be struggling with the same problems listed in the essay. This topic would not be

acceptable for any math class or science class, since it has nothing to do with the well being of

dancers. If they are learning math, why would it be necessary for them to know about the

resources dancers can find they require help. The Twitter community really helped my writing, it

was very helpful with providing many facts and statistics about my topic. This app will help me

with other informative essays that will come up in the future, since it's filled with factual

information on many different topics. When I was writing this essay, I did realize that I had many

writing strengths, the main one being I was able to paraphrase easily. Since the twitter page had

all of the information that I needed I was able to just read the posts and comments and start

writing. Another one of my strengths that really stood out to me was how I was able to structure

everything into multiple paragraphs. As for weaknesses, I would say that my transitions were not

as great as I thought they were. From the feedback that I got from my readers, they all asked if

all of this information was true and kept asking if I went through all of this as well. And I

answered truthfully, which was yes I did go through all of what was written in my essay. One of
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my readers actually said that she could tell that I went through this because of how well informed

it was. I learned that it's okay to not be perfect when writing, and that it's normal to have a bad

first or second draft. I understood this genre, I knew I would understand it since I participate in

the genre daily. As for the community I also use daily, I tweet, retweet, and like other people's

feed. I also get most of my information from Twitter because I know that they are always correct

and valuable information on a variety of topics. The most challenging part would have to be

coming up with structure and placement. I changed my placements of paragraphs a lot of times

because I just wanted it to flow together and not sound like I'm just throwing away information.

The least challenging part was finding the genre and community. I knew I had wanted to do

Twitter because they give out a lot of information, and so when I was about to search a topic I

saw this page pop up on my “for you'' tab. Obviously as a dancer who is interested in this topic I

clicked on it and it ended up being perfect for this essay. My identity as a writer for sure

changed, this essay made me step out of my comfort zone as a writer. It helped me transition into

a college writer.