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Sebastian Reed

ENGL 1301-210

Dr. Sharity Nelson

3/12/2023

Reflection Essay 2

What I have learned from Essay 1 that I used in Essay 2 is that analyzing any type of

visual art or text can mean something, other than just looking at it and walking away like

nothing. Analyzing can help us understand the true meaning of a certain thing and its aspects.

Personally, I find analyzing quite complicated.

What wasn’t applicable in Essay 2 was the specification of the object, and the further

details of the group of why they did this and that.

What I learned in Essay 2 that can be applied in other class courses is the way that I have

to briefly explain the aspect of what is being discussed in the essay, so that my audience can

understand my statements/ arguments. One of those classes may be my future Psychology classes

because they do require research and essays to explain why.

Other classes that don’t have anything to write about will not be applicable to the skills

that I developed. Math, for example, is often a problem-solving course and does not involve

writing. Other math-related courses such as Algebra, Geometry, Physics, Pre-Cal, and Cal, do

not involve the use of writing essays or make any form of communication whatsoever. Although,

the questions on the problems do assemble a made-up scene of what someone is trying to do and

achieve. It doesn’t assemble communication, but it makes the reader understand what the

question is trying to explain and solve the right answer. I don’t know any other classes as far as I

know that will be unapplicable at this time.

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The analysis of community has helped me improve myself in a few ways. One of them is

the explanation because I always thought that being explanatory in general other than just

specifying everything was enough. It turned out that there is more than just that. I also learned

that making well-written essays are indeed time-consuming, but it is worth being easily

explainable to the readers.

The visual analysis hardly changed my improvement to my writing, but it did help me

understand how analyzing anything that has to do with visual art or text always has a meaning to

what the author/ artist is trying to say in a different way. “How can I improve my spelling?”. I

can improve by repeatedly writing and practicing to write nicely on a piece of paper, and having

full focus on my writing so people can easily read my words.

The feedback I received from my peers seemed to be so-so. My peer did tell me that she

did find a bit of mistakes but no grammatical errors in my essay. I did make the changes, and it

did work out. I did give her feedback on 1 mistake that needed to be fixed which was the

Wikipedia link.

I am not sure about your comments on my essay, but it was hard for me to understand in

the first draft. I do think that the feedback will be different since I did add more to the essay

since it was half the required words.

The most challenging part of this essay was to analyze, explain, and look for more things

that are not obvious to my audience.

My identity as a writer kind of felt the same. I’m not sure how to describe this, but when

I used to write essays in the past, I mostly felt like I was more of a regular writer. I am not the

type of author that tries to argue about a certain statement. Therefore, I feel comfortable being

more of an informative type of author.

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Works Cited

Lunsford, Andrea. “How can you improve your spelling?” 3/12/2023. ENGL 1301, Texas A&M

International University, 3.9.23 Homework.