Reflection on Argument Essay

While I wrote this argumentative essay I was somewhat relieved because I was able to learn from my mistakes I made from writing the expository essay.  Even though the prompts were completely different I still manage to learn from it. Problems that I have came across while writing the expository essay like using citations correctly or shortening my sentence hopefully have gotten better in my argumentative essay. Having more experience or practice with writing longer papers really helped take pressure off of me. I felt more confident when writing this paper because I felt like I knew what I was doing. All of the previous papers like the literacy narrative and the introductory letter  prepared me tremendously for the much harder papers such as the expository and argumentative paper. Due to writing so many papers organizing my work has also became a lot easier. Like I stated before having all of those writing opportunities really taken a weight off of my shoulders.

I started early that the expository and argumentative essay were similar but yet different in many ways. Both papers required the same skill set as do many other formal academic papers. However, even though I used the same technique the prompts and the information required to attempt to answer the question was were very different. Writing the expository essay was surpassed the argumentation essay when it comes to the amount of stress received. The expository essay was only stressful because it was the first time I used the tools and or skills in a longer paper than usual. My first assumption of writing the argumentative paper was that I Was going to struggle tremendously with completing this essay. Since the expository essay was hard I was expecting the argumentative essay to be harder but it was the opposite. I’m not saying that it was easy because it was far from easy I was able prepare myself  for the argumentative paper. The paper itself didn’t create all of the stress the conditions that I had to work in were very tough. I had all of the materials the were required to complete the paper I just didn’t have the necessary time to complete the paper. I was on a very tight schedule that did not compliment the time needed to finish the paper.

Due to my tight schedule forced me to create some sort of  schedule to organize when and what I was going to complete. I think I planned out my essay pretty well for the simple fact that it is complete with the very little time I was given. I did a lot of outlining to make the typing process go smoothly and quickly. Making the typing process go by with no problems was a top priority because it takes majority of the time. I had to change my ways to complete the paper in a orderly fashion. I certainly had to adapt, I adapted to the conditions and news ways of approaching my writing. These adaptation are not something that I wanted to do but something I had to do for my grade and paper sake. Even though there were many complications when trying to write and type this essay all is well.

Before I started writing this essay I had a little bit of work to do on my thesis. My thesis wasn’t answering the prompt as clearly as I had wanted to. So I formed the question differently to answer the question. Making sure my thesis is really answers the question has became apart of my process. From now on i’m going to make sure my thesis is strong because if your thesis is weak your whole essay is also going to be weak. If you don’t have a strong foundation your whole essay is destined to fall apart. Speaking on the process making sure the MLA format is correct. Remembering all of the components of the process is very hard because it’s hard to double space , put the header and many more things. It just a lot of things required to write an essay especially when you have to write it with MLA format. I didn’t use everything in the format in the MLA format because I didn’t use the quote integration. I don’t really know how to use it and I didnt think it was needed. Everything besides that I used and I think I used it correctly. Since I practice so much with source identification, in-text citation and many more so it has become a habit. My understanding for the MLA process has really grew tremendously.

Addressing this argument was kind of hard because I am very outspoken so it is hard not to put  my opinion in my paper especially for a topic that I feel so strongly about. My want to voice my opinion really affected my writing and my process a lot. Since my process was altered I used the peer suggestions a lot I found them very helpful this time. The critics had to do with my formatting not my actually writing which I really appreciated that. The suggestion really helped me with proofreading and revising my work as a collective. I think I proof read a lot better in this essay due to the peer review because I believe that the person that is writing can’t always find their own mistakes. Your work improves so much if have someone look over your work. I also got outside help from my academic coordinator. My academic coordinator helped me a lot especially because she is older than me and she has a lot more experience than me. I made a lot of changes because I spent a lot more time on my proofreading. Writing this paper was hard but it was still easier than expected. I do feel like I improved a lot with my writing I have gained a lot more confidence when it comes to writing. I do appreciate all of the opportunities to better my writing and I do believe it has paid off.