Reflection Essay 2

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Angelin Lopez
English 1301-119
Dr. Sharity Nelson
17 October 2022
Reflection Essay 2
While the writing process for Essay 1 was challenging, I did take the tools I learned from
that process and applied them to my second essay. Throughout the writing process of essay 1 I
struggled with a couple of things, two of which being my introduction and conclusion. With the
second essay, I was able to go through the writing process in another, much easier way. Instead
of writing in order from the introduction, I thought it would be best to write the first paragraph
first and then come back to the introduction when I was done. This way whatever I came up with
for the introduction would have to flow with my first paragraph. Not only this but during the
process of Essay 1 I wasn't the best at having all of my information in the right place. What I
mean by this is that although my essay sounded 'ok' a good portion of the information was not
structured properly and had to be moved around. With my second essay I was able to learn and
realize where exactly information should go to be structured properly.
When writing Essay 1 “Missing and Unidentified” I had to learn how identify a
community and its genre, something that took me a while to grasp. Although this was something
important that I had to learn for Essay 1 it was something that I really didn't need as much for
Essay 2. Essay 2 relied more on description and analyzation of the visual elements used in the
images rather than identifying a community and its genre. While this did help many in
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understanding how people can communicate with one another through a community it wasn't
something that was needed for describing the visual elements for Essay 2.
Learning to view certain pieces of images and turning that into knowledge and
information is something I learned to do during the process of Essay 2 that I believe can be
applied to many other courses. Art, for instance, being the main one. Art takes simple colors and
strokes and turns them into something extraordinary that tells a story of its own. Many, if not
most artists, use their creativity to build an image with so much story and is left to be analyzed.
Using the skills learned in Essay 2 and applying them when looking at pieces of art can help in
finding the story and looking at the bigger picture rather than what is simply shown.
While analyzing these elements can be helpful in instances such as art and history, it is
not applicable within various other subjects. Describing visuals, identifying an audience, and
uncovering information from the many elements given is not something that is necessary or must
be learned and applied to courses such as Mathematics and Science. While science does uncover
new information that was not known before, it does it in a way that is different from the course
English would uncover. Science relies on things such as experiments and trial & error as a means
to get new information. English takes what it is handed and uncovers the unknown information
from what it is given.
Being able to analyze images and texts is a great way to improve writing because it helps
you see things from a bigger perspective and forces you to ask questions such as "why?" And
"for what purpose?". Being able to view such things and ask these questions makes us not only a
better writer for being able to gather information from certain pieces of imaging and text but also
helps us as people understand that everything has meaning and a deeper purpose than what is just
on the surface. It will help my writing in the future in the sense that now when asked to analyze
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or view something for the sake of an essay, I am now able to identify and uncover information a
lot easier than before.
For both Essays 1 and 2, I had some of the same issues when it came down to the writing
process, which was noted as well by my fellow peers. The completion of my introduction and
conclusion was something I struggled immensely with, and have come to learn that those are my
weaknesses. While I was able to improve the process for both my introduction and conclusion
during the writing of Essay 2, it was still somewhat difficult for myself, and I had to
continuously ask for feedback for those specific parts. However, everything that comes in
between was what I learned to be my strength. I learned that when I knew what I wanted to write
about, the words flew out of me in an unsharpened form from which I had to structure and
improve. Nonetheless, writing the body paragraphs was something I found quite simple once I
got going.
From the feedback given by my professor, I anticipate and hope that the structure of the
information in the paragraphs is not a problem like before and has come out fine. Aside from
this, I do believe I will still get one piece of feedback again that was given before as to ways to
improve and strengthen my thesis and introduction. While I think that I have worked hard in
bettering my introduction, I do believe that it could still be stronger and more put together.
Overall, for both essay's I struggled with the same things and have learned ways to better
improve those weaknesses. The most challenging part of both essays was not providing
information, nor sourcing, but was in finding a way to both start and finish my essay in a way
that would pull you in and neatly end things. The least challenging out of everything in terms of
writing these essays were both the body paragraphs and citations as both were a lot easier to do
compared to writing the beginning and end.

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realize where exactly information should go to be structured properly.

from what it is given.

lot easier than before.

compared to writing the beginning and end.

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