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Andy De Luna

Professor Briones

ENGL 123

10/19/2022

Essay 2 Reflection Essay

While working on this essay, I felt less pressured than I did while working on my first draft

for Essay 1. I learned from my previous essay that I am not as bad of a writer than I thought before,

and that I enjoy doing research about topics that interest me. Knowing this helped me a lot on this

essay, as it led me to chose as my graphic text something related to one of my favorite’s games.

Nevertheless, not everything I learned on my previous essay was applicable for me to use here. I

made a mistake on my previous essay which led me to learn how to add footnotes on my essay.

Since now I know more about the MLA format, I did not use them. Also, due to lack of sources, I

had to learn how to go back in time to pages that are no longer available on the web. Even though

it is a useful thing to know, for my second essay, I chose a more known topic so I did not have a

hard time finding information.

Thanks to this essay, I realized how important doing research about a topic is. I have been

doing research and writing for my history class to help me understand the documents we discuss in

class. By getting immersed in the context of the document, I get to understand a lot more than by

just reading it. However, not everything I learned here can be applied to my other courses. Sadly,

MLA format is mainly used only for English subjects. Other courses prefer to use Chicago or APA

style format, so learning more about the format as I work on my essays will mostly be used on my

English classes.
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I enjoyed the opportunity to explore more into a visual text and write about it because it

challenged myself. It was difficult for me to describe in extent the video because I am not used to

describing images, but it was a fun experience which expanded my view on the details in images.

Before working on this essay, I would have never noticed the Mercedes-Benz advertisement that is

present on the video I talked about.

One of the things I did not enjoy when working on my essay is that my peer-review had

nothing to help me push my essay further. I was still confused on how to get rid of an I-statement

and got no suggestions on how to change it by my peer. From my feedbacks, I have been seen that

I am not as bad of a writer as I thought, and, now, I consider myself a bit strong in writing.

However, I still have weaknesses, such as procrastinating a lot. Also, on this essay, I felt that I

repeated myself too much on my first draft, which I later changed. Linked to the topic here, I

believe my feedback from my essay will be good. I followed my feedback to elevate my essay and

added relevant information an additional image to guide the reader of my essay more.

For this essay in particular, the most challenging thing was getting started. The same thing

happened on essay 1. I find it difficult to get started with my projects as I tend to delayed them to

when I feel motivated to work on them. I will continue to work on this so it does not happen for

essay 3.

Thanks to this essay, I found a lot of things about myself. I realized how much I enjoy

researching topics that I am interested about, and to learn more about things I am involved with.

Although I had some of the same issues that were present since Essay 1, I firmly believe I have

grown as a writer. I believe I have found my identity in writing: I like to have a soft approach to

my reader, and not to just give the information. I enjoy working on ways to connect my thoughts
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so that it has soft transitions from one topic to another. Although I still make mistakes while doing

it, I will for sure continue working on my style to refine my own writing identity.