Reflection Paper

My entire academic life I have found a passion and love for English, particularly writing. In high school I enjoyed writing so much that within my junior and senior year I was constantly taking writing courses to get better and explore my passion for it. Therefore, coming into college and having to write papers every week was not a problem but something I looked forward to doing. I was looking forward to learning new techniques, different essay assignments, and expanding my ideas and mind within English. Being in GSW 1110 this semester I had the chance to accomplish all of those expectations. This semester I learned new writing techniques, how to expand very small ideas to entire five page papers. Which in high school meeting the paper requirement

This topic I did have past experience with, in my senior year I wrote a fifteen page paper on the foster care system which was a research essay. However, in this assignment I was suppose to try and convince the audience to become foster parents, which was different. This taught me how to appeal more to my audience, I found myself paying more attention to my diction and syntax. I used more pathos, ethos, and logos more than I usually do in most essays just because I was trying to appeal to the audience at a more one-on-one basis. I think by having to focus more on audience appeal in this essay I became convincing enough to prove main ideas to the audience. Well as convincing as you can get trying to appeal to someone fostering children. I think I used good examples and emotional appeal well enough for my intended audience. Using statistics and eliminating stereotypes of the foster care system. Furthermore, this essay I followed my normal writing process since the assignment demanded me to be more creative. I did an outline to begin with, I make my outlines incredibly detailed just because it puts them all out on a piece of paper and I can organize them the way that I think is best. Next I type my first outline, I do some tricks that high school teachers taught me like reading it backwards, having a trusted friend peer review, or putting it in a website like paperrater to catch any grammatical errors. After that I take all the criticism, errors, and put them all in a final format, read it over one last time and then I turn it in. In this writing process finding conclusions was simple. I typed into google foster care, looking through government websites on statistics and a new source finder I am starting to get into the habit of using is the BG Library search as well. Doing this writing process really