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Alexis Celis

Dr. Sharity Nelson

ENGL 1301-122

15 November 2022

Reflection Essay

What I learned in Essay 1 that I used in Essay 3 was learning how to make a claim. This

allowed me to reveal information that was not already given in the article. I was able to

incorporate Essay 2 into Essay 3 by being able to create a meaning to the articles key elements.

Doing this give me and the audience a better understanding of what the article is proposing.

What I learned in Essay 1 that I did not apply to Essay 3 was using reasons based on the

genre. In Essay 3 this was not needed because the goal was to do a rhetorical analysis of a peer

reviewed article. In Essay 2 I did not apply the analyzation of a visual text. Although, my article

did include tables, my focus was not solely on the tables that were provided but rather the text

leading to the results of the text.

In Essay 3 I learned a lot of information that would be useful in other courses. For

instance, I was able to become somewhat confident in reading a peer-reviewed article. This gave

me the opportunity to grow my knowledge of arguing effectiveness. This can be used for medical

research papers. A course that Essay 3 would be useful for would be in the course BIOL 2101

Anatomy & Physiology 1. In the field of medicine there are many research papers that are given

and analyzing them is a part of the medical field to be able to argue effectiveness.

What would not be applicable to other classes would be the article being peer-reviewed.

In most courses, there is a variety of articles that won’t be peer-reviewed so personally I feel like

that would not be applicable to other courses.

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The analysis of a peer-reviewed article helped improve my writing by being able to

distinguish the types of elements they are using to get their information out. For example, by

using pathos, one of three rhetorical appeals, this evokes emotion. Using this allows the writer to

persuade the audience by connecting with them through those emotions whether it be sad or

happy.

From the comments I received I can say that my strong suite would be my conclusions. I

would agree that my strong suite are my conclusions because I use that as reference. Working

from bottom to top has helped me complete my writings with without getting stuck. My writing

weaknesses would be thesis statements and being more detailed with my body paragraphs. I

think these would be my weaknesses because I feel like I would be providing irrelevant

information, so I keep it vague. In Essay 2 my thesis statement did improve because I went to

ACE for help. In ACE I sort of got the hang of what a thesis statement was constructed of. From

Essay 1 to 2 my weaknesses did get stronger, however, I feel like I still lack in those regions.

I think the comments will be the same on the thesis statement, again as I mentioned

before it isn’t my strong suite. I do think that my body paragraphs would be different because I

was able to pick my own topic and that allowed my creativity to flow. Also, I believe the ideas

that I pointed out were clear because I followed the list, to the best of my ability, that was

provided to help my writing flow easier.

The most challenging aspect of this essay was learning how to paraphrase and reading the

article. This was the most challenging part because in article it had the objective, method, results,

and conclusion already given. Trying to paraphrase these topics was hard because I couldn’t find

a way to make it my own. Also reading was also a challenging aspect. Reading is not my strong

suite, so it was challenging going over these pages repeatedly. The least challenging part of this
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essay was choosing the article that was going to be written about. This was the least challenging

part because it gave us full range to pick to topics we were interested about. Having that freedom

allowed our creative minds to flow.

During this essay my identity as a writer changed. For example, in Essay 1 I wasn’t

confident with my writing because I was still learning how to follow the criteria and process

towards writing the essay. In Essay 2 I was more confident in my writing. This is because the

topic was based on visual text, which gave me more opportunity to pick a subject I enjoy making

the writing enjoyable. Lastly in Essay 3, I was somewhat confident because I knew what I had to

do, yet the thought of reading more than three pages of text was dreadful. Once again, the

creativity was still flowing in my head because we chose was peer-reviewed article we wanted to

write about. Overall, throughout the process of writing the essays I can say that I am more

confident in my writing.