I've been assigned a reflecton essay in my english class.
Here is the prompt: Write an essay that analyzes and evaluates the following three things about your own writing: growth, quality and things learned. Include the following questions: what does it mean to be able to write effectively? Why does writing matter if at all? What is the primary goal or purpose of any piece of writing? Who is the writer and who is the audience really? What is the relationship between a writer and his writing? Between a writer and his audience?
I have no idea where to start or how to develope any points! help!
Basically, I think you're being asked why does it matter to be able to clearly explain your thoughts through writing. All the questions are asking that question. You need to talk about how your own writing has developed to be more efficient and effective, and how your views on writing things have changed.
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I've been assigned a reflecton essay in my english class.
Here is the prompt: Write an essay that analyzes and evaluates the following three things about your own writing: growth, quality and things learned. Include the following questions: what does it mean to be able to write effectively? Why does writing matter if at all? What is the primary goal or purpose of any piece of writing? Who is the writer and who is the audience really? What is the relationship between a writer and his writing? Between a writer and his audience?
I think it's far more important to write effectively that people realize. Writing not only communicates our thoughts it also creates our thoughts. When one creates an effective piece of writing they have succeeded. They have successfully got their message across. If one writes to persuade, they have persuaded. If one writes to educate, they have educated. If one writes to evoke strong emotion such as sadness then they have evoked sadness. If the reader becomes bored with the reading, the author has not written effectively.
Writing is the world's way of communicating. It is an essential part of our culture. Writing is on our social networks, texts, websites, advertisements, school material. If one is unable to write effectively this can prevent them from a future. Poor writing will fail you in the education system and will prevent employers from hiring you. No job and no education will result in no future.
The purpose of writing is different for every author. In every piece of writing there is an audience meant too read it. Ones writing should please the audience. The goal of writing is not to lose your reader or audience. To bring out the emotion in the reader that the writing speaks. Writing is used to sell things, to persuade, to hurt, to cause frustration, to evoke emotion and to educate. If a piece of writing fails to accomplish its goal, its unsuccessful writing.
The writer is the one whose ideas and thoughts are written down for an audience to read. But sometimes the writer is also the audience. Occasionally one may write for themselves only.
For some, one may be very close to their writing, for other writers writing may be nothing more than a task to get done. Writing can be something very great and writing can be something very bad, it depends on how you look at it. If one does not like to write the more they write the easier it may become.
For some writing may hardly be anything at all. Others think about their writing for a very long time to prefect it. Writer may have a story to tell and that is all, in this case one may not think about their audience at all. Other writers write strictly for an audience and while writing they are thinking about pleasing the reader.
There are many elements and characteristics that come together to construct a masterpiece essay. The six traits: Ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice and conventions, should be clear and interesting. Out of the six traits I think organization and voice are the two that I struggled with the most.
For an essay to be organized it must be clear, focused, logical, and effective. Organization is one of the most important elements of an essay. An essay can master every other element but if the writing is not organized then the essay is bad. In the beginning of the year I was not focused on a point to write about and my essays seem to ramble on with no logical order. In my essay on the story 'Girl' by Jamaica Kincaid, I really lacked organization. The introduction paragraph repeated "you cannot fully live if the whole time you are learning" twice. It sounds repetitive and like there was nothing else to say. Then came a huge body paragraph that should have been broken up into three body paragraphs. My ideas are surface and I am mostly summarizing the story with some commentary. I did come up with three good points but I did not dig deep to support my points. I wrote about 2 or three sentence for each point which was not enough detail. "This leads me to my next point, happiness. Eating fruit and being attacked by flys is just a part of living. Not being able to pick flowers because of the chance of catching something is pretty depressing." those two sentences were my third point. There is no supporting detail just summarization. When I read my essay, right when I thought I was going to go into more detail on my three points I flipped the page over and my essay was finished... I severely lacked supporting aspect.
This essay also lacked voice. The writing was very bland and monotone. For example: "With somebody telling you how to live your life you will grow up to be self-conscious, rebellious, and unhappy" "This is what the author is trying to tell us, this is her main point." These sentences are a good representation of the whole essay; bland, boring and summarization.
In another essay I wrote about European History the same flaws occurred. The essay was one big jumbled mess with no organization or voice. Much of the essay was quotations from the sources. It's good to use quotes but an essay should not be majority quotations. Following my quotes was a summary or interpretation of the quote. This is unneeded; one should assume the reader is familiar with the writing. There is no voice in this essay simply because the whole essay is quote then interpretation. This essay has potential but much more points, and explanation is needed.
I need help developing this into an essay!
I believe your essay is headed in the proper direction and clearly answers your stated questions above. However, I think you still need to fine tune your thesis of this essay as well as letting it flow more naturally. Your sentences seem to be relatively short and could be combined to strengthen your supporting details. Additionally, your essay could gain much more strength if your incorporated more descriptive words. Some word that could be changed are "good", "bad", "fully" and so on. Lastly, please, please reconsider writing this sentence:
"It sounds repetitive and like there was nothing else to say."
Good Luck!
