Self-reflection essay: Smoking When critiquing one’s own writing, many are compelled to honestly say their opinion. This is a struggle for everyone, a struggle of honesty and coming to terms with your own abilities. Here, I am required to give a critique based upon my final essay #3 about smoking by using the Research Paper Evaluation Rubric and place myself in one of the four categories. I find myself stuck between inadequate and successful but in the end after great consideration, I can honestly say that I belong in the successful category. I belong in the successful category and not in the inadequate category because successful requires an adequate fulfillment of the course outcomes while inadequate demonstrates an inadequate fulfillment of the course out comes. My essay has all the requirements of successful, where I analyze the subject simply and to my best understanding instead of inadequate where I fail to analyze the subject correctly. The rubric states …show more content…
An inadequate essay is described to have poor organization, confusing logic, and many grammatical errors, etc. I believe that by these requirements my essay definitely falls under successful. My essay does not have poor organization and I tried my best to place each paragraph to where it correlates to the paragraphs before and after it. While I may have a few grammatical mistakes they are not great enough nor poor enough to classify my essay as inadequate because despite these few errors my essay still manages to make complete sense. The logic I used in my essay is perfectly understandable among many people. The logic I used basically states that smoking is bad and harms people in many ways. I backed up my logic with credible evidences to show that many other people understand and agree with the logic I used in my
In this essay, we were to evaluate the ideas proposed by the author. Isolating and analyzing the key claims within the text. This essay required us to provide justifications used by the author to support those claims and provide an analysis of the ideas. I chose a fictional text for this prompt called “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. The argument from this particular story is that everyone carries a burden. The justifications that I came up with to support this claim was Lt. Jimmy Cross’ strong infatuation with a girl named Martha and how all the soldiers carried some kind of burden, either physical or emotional. I needed to provide evidence to support these justifications. Some evidence I provided to back up the justification was how a soldier named Ted Lavender died on duty and how Lt. Cross blames himself for Ted’s death because he was concentrating more on Martha than his own crew. My feedback for this assignment wasn’t that good. I didn’t fully understand the prompt and that caused me to get a bad grade on the essay. The professor said my quotes were awkwardly used in this assignment and that I needed more cohesion between my thesis and the surrounding sentences. I noticed that I still need to work on my grammar techniques. One thing I did realize about my feedback was that I had less sentence fragments, so I count that as an improvement. It wasn’t required to make a revision memo
The very first paper I wrote this semester was a descriptive persuasive essay, in this essay I continually struggled with adding unnecessary words and filling my introduction and concluding paragraph, however, with feedback and several revisions, I was able
Smoking is terrible, or science has yet to discover any medical advantages connected with it. You'd have a hard time discovering somebody that would contend against this thought. While most normal individuals comprehend this idea, there is Surgeon General the United States, who has a message stamped on each tobacco item sold in the country. On the off chance that stopping is the point then we as a general public need to go for the proverbial jugular, and that is smoking tobacco is fatal. In promotion crusades and print ads we see numerous obstructions that would ideally keep individuals from smoking cigarettes. From "not being cool" to "yuck, you possess an aroma similar to cigarettes", what's being sugarcoated is the moderate demise that every drag from a cigarette brings on the human
I have never been the strongest writer. To be honest I was nervous about this course and how much writing was involved in it. With that being said, the research paper I wrote on James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”, was very challenging me. I am overall satisfied with my essay but feel if I had practiced better time management and spent more time analyzing it, the result would have been a more detailed and better organized essay. I put my essay in the Successful category, although I did meet the course outcomes in my paper, it contains grammatical errors and does not flow as well as an Exemplary paper would.
Cigarettes are a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco that is rolled in paper for smoking. There are also many manufactured cigarettes that also have filters on one end that are intended to trap some of the toxic chemicals contained in cigarette smoke. Tobacco and ammonia are contained inside cigarettes. Tobacco is a green, leafy plant that is grown in warm climates. Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. With these conditions, cigarettes are hazardous to health. They also have a complex of 7,000 chemicals. Another important factor of what cigarettes contain is nicotine. Nicotine is a toxic colorless or yellowish oily liquid that is the chief active constituent of tobacco. Smoking cigarettes is a process where the inhalation of the gases and hydrocarbon vapors generated by slowly burning tobacco. With this technique, it becomes highly addictive
There are 1.1 billion tobacco users in the world and it is set to increase to 1.6billion over the next two decades. Addiction to tobacco impacts poverty and development. In poorer countries, up to 30% of income is spent on tobacco, reducing funds available for nutrition, education and healthcare. Every year in the U.S., more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, making it the leading cause of preventable death in this country.
Walking the streets of Baltimore, the smell of cigarettes was everywhere. I sat at the bus stop and this homeless guy was asking for change while smoking a cigarette. I looked at him and didn’t feel any remorse because he was smoking. I imagined giving him money I had then he will spend it on cigarettes and that will be a waste of my money. I got up and moves about ten feet away from the second hand smoke but then saw a guy selling cigarettes. He has a pack of cigarettes and he is selling two cigarettes for a dollar. After about 10 munities waiting for the bus, I saw the homeless guy going to the guy who was selling cigarettes and bought two cigarettes. I looked at the homeless guy’s face and he was so happy. I
...ersonal voice. By the second essay I had begun to develop a sense of myself. I started to break away from the repetitive tone of the first paper, and express myself as an individual through my writing. Additionally, I was able to create a stronger paper by learning how to use sources to better effect. Despite the progress I had made during the second paper, I feel as though the third paper didn’t really show additional growth from the second. However, by writing assignment number four I really felt like I had hit my stride in the class. Everything I had learned previously came together to help me fully express my views on education to my audience. This final essay has allowed me to reflect on my own process of growth in the course. From this point I can see that the skills I have developed in this course are going to be essential in succeeding in college and beyond.
Tobacco smoking is the most addicted smoking that can have a lot of issues to your body smoking can lead you to have ranges of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and as well as primitive death. Smoking can be the hardest habit to stop because tobacco contains nicotine which can be addictive.
The first and hardest essay we had to write was the Ad Analysis. The reason this essay was the most difficult is because we had to pick choose an ad that had enough content to write a thorough paper on. After finding our ad, the process began. We were required to analyze what made the ad most effective. After finally figuring how to write this essay the writing was easy. The grade I received was an eighty-five, which I considered a success. But once I looked over my paper and saw all the mistakes I made, I knew I had to work harder and prepare better for my next one.
This was a pamphlet that you would probably see in a doctor’s office. It provided a lot of good facts about the harms of smoking and what it can cause to the world around the smoker. This paper seemed very professional, so I thought that it was a reliable source that provided honest facts. I used quite a few quotes from this paper and I believe it provided me with great talking points all with emphasizing the point of my paper. Definitely the best source I came across.
organization, and word choice. All other essays were critiqued by my peers. With the help of
This paper did have its challenges regardless of me being accustomed to this particular type of essay. My goal was to argue for a specific treatment of opiate addiction. Unfortunately, most of the sources I was finding arguing in favor of specific treatments were not very strong or dated. I also had many sources arguing the same point repetitively; this consumed a lot of time reading entire papers only to realize that they would not provide anything to my essay. When it came down to writing the paper, it was much easier than the synthesis essay because I had a solid foundation of where the paper needed to
Simple enough prompt I thought. But when it was time to write it down I wasn’t sure of what to talk about. I wrote down 3 global problems on the planning sheet and thought about what I could use as evidence. The one that I thought had the most supporting evidence:poverty. So I decided to use poverty as my problem. I started the intro with a story but as I started my first paragraph, while writing it I thought you know what would be cool? Having my whole essay be like a story. That was what I did, and it was a bit risky. After turning it in I thought, that was such a bad essay. Maybe even the worst in the class. I was doubting the risk I took.When I got my essay back I was relieved to see that my risk was worth it because I got a 4. I still had the same problem as the fourth one though. Also, my essay didn’t have enough evidence because it was a story. I’ll be sure to fix up these problems in my sixth essay I
Scientists and health officials have been arguing the detrimental effects smoking has on our health for many years. Smoking can lead to serious complications including asthma, pancreas, lung and stomach cancer due to the large number of carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals) and other various substances added to it. It is a health hazard for both smokers and non-smokers and it is especially harmful to unborn babies. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress, the negative aspects of the habit take over the positive. As it has been stressed by the scientists and experts, there are some very severe reasons of smoking but its crucial consequences should also be taken into consideration.