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CaraNina Parker

Professor Trishia Briones

English 1302-227

March 29th, 2022

Essay 2 Reflection

I learned in this essay to add section headers and to use Times New Roman since last

time I used Arial. What I learned in another class is how to do an annotated bibliography. I have

never written one before this essay, but I learned how to do it in Univ class. We are doing a

project on toxic masculinity and had write an annotated bibliography before we turned in our

project. I don’t think there was anything I learned in essay one that I didn’t apply to this essay.

Something from this essay that I can use in another class is writing without being biased.

I tend to be biased on my writing and sound as if I’m writing in a persuasive manner. In this

essay, I found a topic that didn’t have disputed facts so all the papers I read reinforced my own

essay. I don’t doubt that later in my school career I will need to be able to read papers and

present all the viewpoints given without choosing one specific one to latch on to as my main

point. I think its very important to be able to do that in your writing.

I think I could also say that sometimes you should put your ideas and biases into your

essays. Its always good to be a versatile writer who can write in different formats and spaces.

So, I don’t think I’ll always use this format but it’s important to know. I can see myself not using

this form of writing where I stay unbiased and only present facts often and I don’t think I would

be able to not put my own voice into my writing as well.

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CaraNina Parker

Professor Trishia Briones

English 1302-227

March 29th, 2022

I thought the annotated bibliography was a little hard and time consuming, but it was

helpful when I had more sources. It helped me remember what parts of what articles I planned to

use and what each article was about. I think the essay helped me become a more unbiased writer

and able to write longer essays. In the future, if I’m writing an essays that has more than four

sources, I think I’ll probably use and annotated bibliography since it does help me stay

organized. I will also make sure to pace myself since in this essay I started too fast and burned

out halfway through. This caused me to stay up later finishing my work and rushing some drafts

of my essay.

I didn’t submit my essay for peer editing, but I think I still was having trouble with being

biased in my writing even though I tried to tone it down. I also think my writing strengths are

endurance, because once I stopped, I didn’t know what to write anymore. I think in my first

essay, I didn’t really have many weaknesses in my writing since it was a very basic essay.

I think that others would agree that I insert my own voice into my writing a little too

heavily and need to work on that. I also need to stay on track and create an easy-to-follow

transition from subtopic to subtopic in this essay. I think that overall, my essay was good, and it

was very interesting to write about, but again, I burnt out way too fast when writing it.
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CaraNina Parker

Professor Trishia Briones

English 1302-227

March 29th, 2022

The most challenging part of this unit was staying indifferent in my writing. I tend to

write things that I feel very passionately about, so its hard for me to view it from a perspective

outside of mine.