Reflection Of My Writing Process

One of the biggest improvements within my documented essay is that I avoided first and second pronouns throughout the paper because I was continually thinking about it. In my other papers one frequent comment would be to avoid these pronouns but I was doing it subconsciously to engage the reader. For some reason, I believed it to be the only way to effectively engage your audience into your writing. Something I probably still need to work on would be writing in a manner that is oriented to my specific needs for the paper. Throughout my writing process I don’t often evaluate how the reader’s needs are being met through my organization or other factors. The only way to improve this mentality is to introduce it as part of the drafting process.

Throughout my schooling most research papers were based in an argumentative format and I felt myself slip into the habits of writing that type of essay when writing the documented essay. I rewrote the entire paper because I was too biased towards one side and couldn’t fix it without reexamining my structure and what I wanted the paper to display as a whole.

As stated in the previous paragraph, it was a bit difficult to portray both sides of the issue because I had already formed an opinion on the subject matter. Whenever I wrote my paper my word choice was leaning towards my opinion that media was a bad influence. However, my experience in Socratic seminars and debate helped me to fix this issue by discussing my paper with other people and imagining if I was on the other side of the issue. In my career this assignment may help me to evaluate my bias within my own writing and when speaking to