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Elaine Briones

Professor William Nolen

ENGL 1301

24 September 2021

Essay Reflection

From what I have learned from my essay that may likely be applicable to other courses is

when writing essays, I need to provide sufficient information and evidence in order to support

my topic (such as statistics). For instance, if I were to write an essay for my algebra course, I

would need provide a clear, informative idea how certain equations are done and would provide

information on how to work the steps for formulas. Although what wouldn’t be applicable to

other courses is doing the typical writing strategy, bringing ideas into a circle diagram, some

classes just require writing it as it is.

The community helps me improve as a writer because I can get my analysis and statistics

done for the genre that is being talked about. As an example, for my first essay, I talked about

Kanye West releasing a new album and provided the type of people that listened to the artist

(provided age groups, gender, etc.) I noticed my writing strengths is having good wording and

knowing what words to use to make my essay sound “professional” as a college freshman, along

with having good grammar (although it isn’t a strength or weakness, I believe it’s my strength).

My writing weaknesses can sometimes be bringing too much information that results with

making my essay looked cluttered up.

What I learned from the comments that were left on my essay is that I needed to give

background information in order to help the reader have a better understanding about the topic,
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as well as to not leave details left unexplained. As I wrote this essay, I’ve learned as a writer that

when I genuinely enjoy talking about a topic, my ideas will overflow and at times forget the

main objective of the assignment, which is something I need to work on as a writer to help my

essay be on the right track. This essay made me forget the main idea of what the assignment was

about, and I went too into depth about Kanye’s life in my opinion.

My interpretation with genre is that it is the main objective that is being used/spoken

about and for community is the people being brought together as union for that genre. The

participant is the person the essay is being written by and also is apart of the community. I would

say the most challenging aspect from this essay was gathering important, relevant, and necessary

information and to eliminate the unnecessary content.

In all honesty, I still do not have a clue what my identity as a writer is and I’m continuing

to figure out what that is.