Elaine Briones

Professor William Nolan

ENGL 1301 123

13 October 2021

Essay 2 Reflection Questions

What I learned from Essay 1 is to stay on track with the main idea of the assignment than

going off track, which is what I did for Essay 2. In Essay 1, I talked about Kanye West’s albums

and people’s opinion on it, instead of talking about the form/content that was being used from

the twitter replies I checked. Another thing I learned from Essay 1 that could not be applicable to

Essay 2 was not talking about the main genre, without talking about the main genre of the essay

means that the reader will be reading information that isn’t applied to the main genre which is

what happened in my first essay. What I learned in Essay 2 that can be applicable to other

courses is being able to provide sufficient information about the main idea for topics, such as

nursing. If I am writing a paper for a nursing program, I would have to provide sufficient

information and talk in detail to help the reader understand what I am explaining as well as

understand what I am trying to do. I believe that the analysis of the same genre from different

types of communities will help me improve my writing by being able to be distinctive with the

similarities as well as the differences from those different communities. For example, in my

second essay, I was able to provide three different texts which was three different commercial

websites (Shein, Wish, Amazon) and although they had the same type of form, they had different

content from one another which helped me as a writer realize that there are more details in depth

that have to be observed. The comments that were left on my second essay from the peer reviews

have mentioned that I needed to go more into detail about my third example which was Amazon,
and went ahead and added a sufficient about of information to help the reader get a better and

clear idea about the website. Other than that, my peers seemed to have gotten a good

understanding on the point I was trying to prove in my essay. The challenging part about this

essay was being able to provide sufficient information that wasn’t unnecessary to the reader and

as well as being able to give evidence to make my points stronger. The least challenging was

being able to describe what the form/content was after the professor was thoroughly explaining

what had to be done and how it was done. My identity as a writer is still unknown but I can say

now that I do have a better understanding of what my essay was supposed to be written about as

well as what information I had to give to my readers/peers.