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Vivian Galindo

ENGL 1302-223

Dr. Sharity Nelson

15 February 2023

Reflection Essay 1

In 1301, I learned the study of effective rhetorical choices including, audience, purpose

arrangement and style both individually and collaboratively. I incorporated these techniques into

my first essay. For example, Color is such an impactful and vigorous presence in one’s lifetime.

One must understand the real reason behind why one chooses these certain colors, one can

enhance one's sense of relaxation, advantage, and evaluation in one’s life span. Numerous

psychological articles and questionnaires have been utilized to research the issue to investigate if

perhaps color influences one’s moods and emotions and additionally devote only specific colors

that complement our physique and performance, this suggests that color is such a personal

statement and reveals humanity’s true essence. According to psychologists Strappavara and

Ozabal “There are emotional and symbolic associations with different colors. This is also

revealed in our daily use of language, as we frequently make references to colors for increasing

our expressiveness by invoking different emotions” (Strapparava and Ozabal 31). [This piece of

evidence gives a demonstration and understanding on how I incorporated purpose, audience,

arrangement, and style.] (Galindo, “Essay 1: Final Draft,” 1).

Following, what did you learn in 1301 that you did not use/was not applicable to your

first essay in 1302? Throughout my English 1301 course I learned how to evaluate multiple

rhetorical appeals and emphasizing their parts of speech and make appropriate communication

choices such as, written, visual, and oral communication and have a sense of problem-solving
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capabilities into each essay. Apart from this, what another concept I learn outside of English

1302 that was not applied to Essay 1, was for instance, in my Univ 1302 course I learned the

concept of APA format something I did not use for this essay since it was MLA format.

Additionally, what concept in this first essay was important to learn that can be applied in

other courses? The ability to combine other sources ideas and implement your own into

synthesizing in drawing one’s personal concept and rather it is important or not. For instance, I

explained the psychology behind color and why each individual’ has made those choices and

how it affects their perspectives, specifically daily tasks and circumstances. This is important

because it will help me develop clearer ideas for future projects going towards my career of

interest especially in business. Not only but also, what do you think you learned in this first essay

that will not be applicable to other classes? the fact that conducting and designing an experiment

will not be applicable towards the credits that hints toward my future career.

Subsequently, how does the creation of an experiment with outside research contribute to

improving writing, in general? It gives external, internal, and constructive validity and

psychological realism where the same mental process is used in both the laboratory and in the

real world. As well as how will it help approach writing tasks in the future? I think doing this

investigation will help critical thinking skills and draw conclusions on a topic that for me were

unfamiliarized and will help amplify my knowledge towards the topic or issue. By this statement

I refer to, my second draft of essay one on my discussion section which states, “This survey

analysis aimed to investigate the effect of interpretations and influence of color. The results of

this experiment showed that color truly has a significant effect on intuitiveness and impression.

The findings of this study had several other important implications, firstly, atmosphere plays an

essential role that expressed mood and conveys a dominate emotional effect or appeal,
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participant concluded that multiple scenarios in a professional and casual settings that include

school, home, and socialization. According to author David Humane from Organizational

Behavior claims, “But do people in positive moods seek out social interactions or do social

interactions cause people to be in good moods it seems both are true and does the type of social

activity matter indeed it does research suggests that physical (skiing or hiking with friends)

informal (going to a party) or Epicurean (eating with others) activities are more strongly

associated with increases in positive moods than formal” Hume (269). Additionally, the

participant hypothesis was indeed correct due to incorporating matte colors such as black, brown,

gray, purple, emerald, green, and sapphire blue because each of these had multiple approach of

deeper moods and emotions” [This piece of evidence gives a demonstration on why doing this

investigation will help critical thinking skills and draw conclusions on a topic that for me were

unfamiliarized and will help amplify my knowledge towards the topic or issue.] (Galindo, “Essay

1: Second Draft,” 7).

Moreover, from the comments you received from the readers of your essay, what are your

writing strengths? Writing weaknesses? Are these weaknesses and strengths have they stayed the

same or different from the weaknesses and strengths that you had previously in 1301? How so? I

think my writing habits have remained the same since 1301 since writing is time consuming and

requires patience and motivation and requires countless times of revising, editing, and deleting.

But I think the same writing mistake I always make that has an impact in making my paper seem

vague are sentence fragments and run-on sentences. For instance, “According to author David

Humane from Organizational Behavior claims, “But do people in positive moods seek out social

interactions or do social interactions cause people to be in good moods it seems both are true and

does the type of social activity matter indeed it does research suggests that physical (skiing or
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hiking with friends) informal (going to a party) or Epicurean (eating with others) activities are

more strongly associated with increases in positive moods than formal” Hume (269)” [ this piece

of evidence comes form my second draft of essay one that is a fragment and a run-on sentence

that needed to be modified] (Galindo, “Essay 1: Draft 2” 6).

Furthermore, what was the most challenging aspect of this essay? Least challenging? The

most challenging aspect of this writing was the fact on discovering unnecessary information and

breaking it down to the most important claims with its corresponding examples and having the

correct citations for the essay correctly, my least challenging aspect from this essay was

gathering the examples on supporting those specific claims from the experiment. For example, in

essay one there was so much unnecessary information I had to interpret or delete because it did

not fit in the topic such as “I think wearing vibrant colors or neutrals will cause a person’s self-

esteem to be higher and at ease. In contrast, people prefer to wear” [this piece of evidence comes

from my first draft of essay one that is unnecessary information that needed to be modified]

(Galindo, “Essay 1: Draft 1” 4). In contrast to the most challenging, the least challenging aspect

of this essay was gathering examples. For instance, the experimental proposal worksheet was a

great resource in jotting down the ideas I was going to base off the experiment for essay one.

This includes the variables, diagram, and the controlling experiment.

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Works Cited

Summers, Charlene. “Experimental Proposal Worksheet.” 25 January 2023. ENGL 1302, Texas

A&M International University, homework assignment.

“Essay 1 Draft 1.” Draft 1. 5 February 2023. ENGL 1302, Texas A&M International University,

student paper.

“Essay 1 Draft 2.” Draft 2. 8 February 2023. ENGL 1302, Texas A&M International University,

student paper.

Galindo, Vivian. “Essay 1: Final Draft.” 13 February 2023. ENGL 1302, Texas A&M

International University, student paper.