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Ruben A. Rodriguez

Dr Sharity Nelson

English 1301

9 March 2023

Essay Reflection 2

What I learned from Essay 1 to Essay 2 was certain words to use and how to use them to

create a strong topic sentence. I learned how to analyze texts translated to images because of the

essay 1 genre analysis. For Example, from my essay 2 “The background of this poster is bleak,

filled with warm tone colors but not the focal point of the poster. The color palate is unique as it

goes from warm tones to cold tones”. This sentence I feel is very good and well put and I got that

skill from essay 1.

The skills I learned from essay 1 that I didn’t use in essay 2 were the examples and

textual evidence. I didn’t use any textual evidence like I did in essay 1 because there was no need

to. It was simply just an analysis of the illustration that didn’t require any evidence but simply

just an analysis. For example, every one of my paragraphs didn’t require textual evidence to get

my point across on what I was talking about.

There really isn’t much that I learned from essay 2 due to personal reasons and sickness

getting in the way of writing this essay to the fullest I could. So, there wasn’t really anything that

I learned from essay 2 that could be applied to my other courses unfortunately.

The things I learned when writing this essay was very well cut short. With the problems I

was facing personally and with my sickness I couldn’t learn much when writing this essay. In

other words, I don’t think there is anything I learned in this essay that would be used in my other

courses deeming it unapplicable. For example, all my sentences and the things I describe in this
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essay were very well just to fit the topic of the essay. Outside of it would deem what I wrote

useless. Maybe if I wasn’t going through what im going through, maybe then it would’ve been

different.

When writing this essay, I was able to analyze visual elements of the image in ways I

probably would’ve done poor at before. It improved my writing allowing me to further my

information thus giving me a decent analysis. It will help me in my tasks in the future with my

essays that may require me to analyze certain images whether its pertaining to the text or my

sources. For example, “On this poster the girl standing with her head down with a slight side eye

is the character, Ellie. She stands big encasing the other main character Joel with her figure. This

could mean that her character is much more important and crucial to the story than the man

below her.” This could be helpful to me in the future and with my approach in writing tasks in

the future.

From the comments I received from the reader of my essay I was able to note that my

writing was mediocre, and that the essential information was there to analyze my essay but there

could be more done to it. My strengths were that I was able to give a good baseline of what

aspects I was analyzing. My weakness was that I couldn’t seem to figure out how to further that

information and make it stronger. The weaknesses and strengths for the most part is the same

from essay 1 to essay 2. For example: The man standing below her is Joel. A middle-aged man.

His hair is gray connected his scruffy beard. He is looking down angry at what seems to be what

he is walking towards.” I could’ve made this sound a lot better and stronger, but I failed to do so

with everything that I was experiencing in my personal life.

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I feel from the comments I got from essay 1 would essentially translate to essay 2. I

couldn’t improve much from each essay due to my personal life so the comments would pretty

much be the same.

The most challenging aspect of this essay was coming up with the proper words to use to

further carry on the sentences thus bringing out new ideas to analyze. I couldn’t fully attack

certain parts of the essay as well as I should have. And for that I lacked in and found it the most

challenging part in my essay. The least challenging part was just simply analyzing the image and

writing down what I see and how I feel when looking at it. For example, “This could mean that

both characters have a unique part to play in the game Although Ellis is seen as the bigger figure

it is important to consider that even if she is the main focal point character, Joel is the protector.

“I was able to analyze the image of the main character and give a well thought idea of what the

poster was portraying.

My identity hasn’t really changed with writing. During my time writing this essay I was

introduced with a lot of obstacles and hardship in my life at this moment that ultimately really

limited me in what I could do with this essay. It didn’t change me or improve me as a writer

because I wasn’t able to do much with my skills to showcase in this writing. For example, a lot

of my sentences and the analysis was very poor on my part. I know I could’ve done a lot more

with my writing and maybe I could have improved upon it.

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Work Cited

Rodriguez, Ruben, “Essay 2 Final Draft.” 10 March 2023 ENGL 1301, Texas A&M

International University, student paper