Guerrero 1

Juan Guerrero

Dr. Sharity Nelson

ENGL 1302 – 101

17 October 2022

Essay 2 Reflection

Something that I learnt from the first essay that I used in the second essay was looking

for articles and choosing the ones that best fit my paper. I learnt to filter in the databases that I

used from my previous English class I took in high school. One thing that was not useful from

essay 1 was the articles that I gathered, and any insight into that side of marketing, since essay 2

focused on violence instead. Something that I did not use from another class was any sort of

philosophy, since it’s not my job to deliver any results, just synthesize them in the essay. The

topic of violence, and the influence that video games and the like may have one children and

people in general may be an interesting topic to tackle in another class, maybe something like

philosophy, or anything to do with reporting new findings. On the other hand, something from

this essay that will not be useful were some of the articles that related to the history and

legislation of violent video games, as that is a very specific and are unlikely to be useful in any

of my future classes, especially given where I am heading.

Writing an annotated bibliography and a research analysis essay can help when it comes

to summarizing things, as well as delivering ideas quickly. I guess that it is good practice for

telling the reader the main idea as quickly and concisely as possible, it would help for future

essays, or if I ever have to do another annotated bibliography or research analysis. I didn’t

receive many comments on the peer review sessions that we had, and the one that I did get was
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just saying to move a sentence. I assume that I have improved from English 1301, but it’s hard to

tell for sure, as I was already very good in that class. I do believe that I understood the

weaknesses of my previous essay, and instead had a new set of issues, mostly when it came to

understanding just what exactly I was supposed to be doing.

I can’t be sure as to the comments of the professor, as there where a lot of issues on my

first essay. And to add to that, I am not sure that I did a good job with the essay, so I may not get

a direct improvement due to that. Although, I do believe that I improved on my organization, and

tone. The most challenging aspect of this unit, like I mentioned before, was understanding just

what exactly I was supposed to be doing, I had to ask several times because I just could not get

it, and even now, I am not entirely sure, nor satisfied, with the work I turned in.