Evaluating Textual Diction

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Evaluating my distant analysis essays to my most present essays; I have noticed a tremendous amount of of improvement in my writing. My vocabulary has increased with intellectual diction; I have expand my analyzing skills. I retain more knowledge of consisting a flowing satisfactory sentence structure. Viewing my analysis essay from the beginning of the school year to my most recent essay; I have noticed my explanatory with the textual evidence has become well thought out perception of the text. For example, the literary analysis assignment I constructed poor analyzing skills, as well as for describing what was happening in the text. “ I understood in a flash, without words, that if I didn’t follow my path, I would suffer, even as I would

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