English Writing Reflection

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English writing is one of my weakest areas. I was born and raised in the United States, but English was not my first language which leads me to have a hard time writing essays in my classes. I did not get the resources that I need for my writing until I was in college. One of the areas that I struggle with is understands the writing prompt. If I do not understand the writing prompt, then I will have a hard time writing my paper. However, now, I am working on my writing skills to be better than before. In the Fall semester 2014, it was my first time writing a research paper that is based on my own observations and research. After analyzing my paper, I came to a conclusion that I need more practice on the citation in APA format, as well, I need …show more content…

Therefore, my intended audiences is my professor and anyone who is in the Child Development field or anyone who are interested in child’s play. I want them to know that with different gender can affect the children to play certain roles because of the environments that the children are surrounded by. The expectations that my readers will need is having evidence and other sources to support it which I include my own findings and have other concrete sources to help back up. One of the areas that the reader will find the evidence to support my findings would be in the literature review section where I stated, “In Riley et al.’s (2007) summary article reviewing on the difference of play and the interaction between girls and boys. The researcher has found that girls tend to choose activities that will allow them to have conversations within the activity in contrast to boys, they then to have activities that are highly active.” Later in my paper, I used my observation to support it which I stated on page 6 paragraphs 2 and I wrote that, “However, there was another girl group who was less active. They were more sitting and having a conversation with each other. In contrast, the boys were aggressive and very active in their physical play.” By having sources to back up my observations, my readers will understand and agree with me or disagrees with me. Additionally, I am writing this research paper to convey information to my readers to let them know more about a child’s play and see if there is a difference in the play depending on the child’s gender. This research paper is flexible because we get to come up with our own questions and find the result on our own with the help of other academic sources. The image that I want to convey to my readers is that I am a serious student and that this research is something that I am interested in it and want to do

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