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Over the semester, I’ve learned many ways to better myself as a writer. I’ve learned how to use quotes and evidence efficiently in my essays, how to go from one paragraph to another efficiently, and I’ve learned hot to connect all my ideas in my essay to my thesis. All of these things that I’ve learned, has helped me to make my essays just a little bit stronger and easier for me to get my opinions out there. It makes my essays clearer and easier to follow.

One of the problems that I had in the beginning of the semester was my inability to connect the quotes from the articles that I chose to use to my essays, clearly. In my first essay (Essay #1) I wrote about the article No Consent is Not like Drinking Tea. In the article, it talks about the metaphor of how giving consent is like drinking tea and the author explains that instead of tea, the metaphor …show more content…

A lot of the times, my essays became choppy because I couldn’t connect my paragraphs fluently.

In Essay #1 , towards the end, I failed to connect my last body paragraph to my conclusion. I jumped from saying that the change from cake to tea was unnecessary to my conclusion paragraph. I made a bold statement in my last body paragraph and attempted to try and wrap it up in my conclusion and it made my essay a little choppy. Instead, I should’ve made the bold statement in my conclusion paragraph so that the reader would have that thought as their last thought about my essay.

I fixed the flow of my essay in my revised essay #2 and made the flow even better. I went from my viewpoints about sexual assault in a paragraph, to my next paragraph that had a quote and an explanation of the quote to further explaining how both paragraphs connected to my thesis. All of the paragraphs in that essay were interlocked and had one large chain because they all connected with each other, causing it to flow

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