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Valerie Flores

Dr. Sharity Nelson

English 1301-130

20 November 2023

Reflection Essay 3

What I have learned from peer reviewed journal articles is that it helps me

progress a lot in my essays. Peer reviewed journal articles also helped me fix my

errors, misspellings, and take off any run-on sentences. What I also learned from

the rhetorical situation in this third essay unit is that it has five parts that you can

describe a rhetorical situation. Such as what is the purpose? Who is your audience?

Topic, writer, and the context. With the rhetorical situation it helped me progress

and be more organized in my essay. Rhetorical analysis of an academic rhetorical

situation can help me in other courses, in my career, and in writing situations. You

might ask yourself, why does it help me? Well it helps me when some courses ask

me for an essay about what I learned in class the whole semester or even to write a

letter to your professor. Now that I know my rhetorical situation steps I will not be

lost and I can be more organized on my topic so my audience can understand what

I am writing about. It also helps me in my doctor career. Once becoming a doctor

you will also have to do essays. You might ask yourself how does she know? Well

in my Univ 1201 course I did a career interview questions, which is interviewing

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someone that is what you want to be in the future. So mine was finding someone

that is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. For me it was easy because I actually

knew someone who is a friend of our family. His name is Dr. Enrique Benavides,

he told us his experience and he says that essays follow you everywhere as a

doctor.

I built upon my knowledge of the drafting and revision process in this third

essay by checking if I made any mistakes, if I had any run-ons, and etc. Drafting

and revision are very important in writing an essay in college or anywhere else. We

have to look for ways to improve our clarity, overall effectiveness, and our

sentence structures. We call drafting and revision “critical thinking,” because we

find ways to improve our writing by criticizing ourselves. The concepts of

brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, and the revision process helps me in other

courses and writing situations by how I said before organizing myself and making

my audience and I understand my essay. It is a huge help when you use your steps

wisely in your essays. Well it has helped me a lot in my essays when we do the

rhetorical analysis worksheet and the outline. It gives me more clues and more

ideas of what I can talk about in my essay. It helps me stay organized and not jump

and talk only a sentence about different subjects.

The conference and the receiving feedback from Dr. Nelson helped me

improve my rhetorical analysis essay. Dr. Nelson’s conference has helped me get
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more organized and have better grammar on my essay. She also helped me fix my

title and how to put more wording in my essay. Dr. Nelson also explained to me on

how to get a good thesis statement, introduction, and conclusion. We also

discussed how to talk more about my authors and the article and what ideas we

could grab from the article. Once finishing with her conference I wrote down notes

on my draft and went back to revise and edit everything. It was a big help for me to

write more and to revise and edit. I had a better introduction, thesis statement, and

conclusion.

My peer review with my classmates helped me also improve in my

rhetorical analysis essay. They caught some of my repetitive words and helped me

change them to something more different. I also had a run-on sentence. I honestly

did not caught it till they actually told me. I sometimes type fast once it comes to

my mind, but thankfully the revision and edit exists.

Editing and proofreading helped me recognize missing connections between

ideas, irrelevant information, and confusing expressions in my draft because it got

to a time where I was lost and did not know what else to write. I saw that in some

parts it did not make sense, so I tried sticking with the same topic and I went back

and edited some words and sentences. Proofreading helped me improve the quality

of my paper, and ensure there were no mistakes and writing inconsistencies.

Becoming aware of missing elements in my writing helped me prepare for my

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future writing assignments by editing, revision, and proofreading. Following those

steps it will help have a better writing essay.

The most challenging part of this essay assignment would be trying to find

more facts about my article, because it would repeat the same thing. I overcame

this challenge by finding more facts about it and trying to change it to my words. I

tried not repeating myself in my essay. When I did revise and edit, I found a lot of

mistakes in my essay. I actually almost changed every sentence and every word

mistake I would find. This challenge helped me recognize my mistakes and prepare

myself for the future. Now, I know that proofreading, revising, and editing is

important for an essay. Also checking on repetitive sentences or try changing it to a

better sentence.

The least challenging part of this essay would be trying to think on what

topic to choose, because I chose something about my career and learned something

from the article. The rhetorical analysis assignment helped me a lot in my essay

and gave me more clues on what I already had on the assignment. I just had to add

more for my essay. I also brainstormed and found a lot of information in my article

and changed some words to mine.