Reflective Essay On Source Change

When you are with someone every single day do you notice the changes that happen to that person over time? I bet that you don 't see the day that wrinkle is established and I bet you don 't notice if someone grew an inch. Only when compared with the past is when these changes are clear but to someone that sees that person every day nothing is out of the norm. Writing is similar to this analogy in the sense that the average person and especially the average college student writes nearly every day. Just as an essay from middle school looks nothing like an essay from high school, an essay from high school looks nothing like one from college and so on. In order to understand how these changes happen in the long term I am going to reflect on how they have happened in the short term and what I have improved on through this English 103 course. Reflecting on my writing has shown me that I have been progressing in nearly every aspect of my writing and I have excelled on my transitions as well as with source support integration. One of the main two things that stood out to me was my

Ending a paragraph in my LEN I stated that “My hands became exclamation points to each of my claims as I was talking with gestures and owning the stage for myself”. That paragraph finished and I started the following one talking about what speech was about by saying “My speech was an argumentative speech about life in prison without parole for juveniles”. In hindsight I think it would have been helpful to tie those two paragraphs in. If I could go back now I would say something about the importance of owning the stage for persuasive and argumentative papers which would give me a smooth transition in to talking about my argumentative paper. Now that I see what could have been improved from older papers it is helpful to look at more recent works to see how far I have come as a