How To Write A Personal Reflection Essay

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This past semester in engile 101 I have learned how to take writing papers and make them my own. For the first paper in the class I was able to talk about a personal belief that I needed to find. In the rhetorical analysis paper where I was given a paper to read and evaluate the writers work and draw my own opinion on it. And in my latest paper for English I was to research something that I didn’t know about and join the discussion. For each of the papers I have always tried to put my personal spin on my papers even if that meant going off the prompt and writing.
For my first paper witch was a personal believe paper I chose to share my opinion on what I think makes people winners. When writing this I had to go into my normally thought process of how can I best show my ideas. But when talking about my opinions I like to use my life as a references because I have a reasonable knowledge on winning and losing being a somewhat of a jock. But also I’ve meet others who have shown me what it means to be a winner but I wasn’t able to include everyone because due to limitation and trying to make my paper communicate my point to the reader about what makes people true winners. That was one of the things that I’ve …show more content…

In my last paper I talked about why we should both get rid of out of state tuition and ways to deal with it at the same time. But this paper had a topic rarely talked about and almost never discussed so finding reliable sources was extremely difficult to do online. So once again I tried to find a way to spin this paper so I can have reliable sources that could bring something new to the argument. So I asked people on campus who had to deal with out of state tuition and find out how others deal with paying fifty thousand dollars to go to George mason. What I learned most form this project is to think outside the box when trying to find

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