Reflection Essay

I came into this class with a fair amount of confidence. Throughout my life, I had always excelled when it came to English. In high school I was always in English Honors classes and I also had taken AP Language and Composition. With the skills I acquired from those courses, I felt confident enough that I could tackle any college english course with ease. However, after entering this course, I came to the realization that I still had a lot to learn in order to become a great, effective writer. The first concepts taught to me in this English class were foreign. This concept of ethos, pathos and logos had never been taught to me in any of my previous classes. The elements of logic, emotion, and credibility were very interesting as I had never thought about any of that before when I had to write. Reading other people’s work and having to identify where these elements were strong, as a result, was especially foreign and difficult for me. Before, whenever I read any piece of writing, I judged it based on the

I also came into this assignment with a bit of confusion and tentativeness. After having a discussion with my instructor, I decided to try the angle that I was interested in writing about, which was the aspect of women’s rights (or lack thereof) in conversation with the rights defined in the Declaration of Independence. This type of conversation between two writings was a new concept for me. My skills of referring to one person’s writing and integrating it with another piece of writing were greatly put to the test as I drafted this paper. I had to keep things organized, my points clear and well supported with quotes. The chapter we read in class regarding “They Say, I Say” greatly helped me in organizing the content for this essay. I was able to smoothly integrate the content from the outside writings with my own comments using the techniques demonstrated in the chapter. In the end I created a paper that I was rather proud