Reflection Essay

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Throughout this year I have had the opportunity to explore skills and methods of writing I’ve never used before. Multiple drafts and peer reviews were some of those skills, and they were new concepts I had never used in my work. I’d known what they are, just the basics, but before this class I never actually put those methods to work. During peer reviews I was able to get suggestions for revisions that I never would’ve thought of myself. By combining the ideas gathered in peer reviews and combining it with some of my own ideas, I was able to formulate stronger arguments. One of the biggest things peer reviews helped me with was figuring out the order and flow of my paragraphs. I originally had continued to argue on my topic after my refutation, …show more content…

He suggested that I reword parts of my essay to change from a more generic call to action, to one based around an educational call to action. As I was rewriting these parts I realised how much more clear and to the point my essay sounded. One of my biggest issues was that I kept referencing to “students” throughout my quotes, yet I had no context as to why students were being addressed at all. To fixed this I went through and added signal phrases and explanations before my quotes. The following is an example of one of those …show more content…

In our criteria, two of the sources we found needed to be academic. Most of the essay’s I had written before this had no requirements to be from an academic source. I learned how to navigate the academic search databases and how to pick out the sources the would give me accurate and helpful information. I was able to find a mass supply of very detailed articles that had relevant information pertaining to my topic. It was very interesting to learn and explore different points of view all stemming from the same base topic. Each different stance helped me further develop strong arguments and to develop better

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