Over the years of participating in relationships that I have had with my family and friends, I have realized that there is no right formula to go about exploring them. Most of my relationships have provided me with different experiences, which has pulled me closer to recognizing myself better. Through this endearment, I have learned that no matter how many unsatisfactory encounters I face in relationships, I have always discovered something new within me with its progression. Writing for me is just like relationships, each assignment is a door of opportunity to identify what is weakening my writerly lens. The layout of recognizing values from various texts in this class has led me to identify that the writer within me is defined through imperfections.
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Before ENGL 1102 class, I had thought that topic sentence of a paragraph needs to mention a fact that eventually leads to the claim and the texts of the paragraph. Also, I had believed that closing sentences of the paragraphs just needed to summarize the main ideas of the paragraph and not connect it back to the topic sentences. For example, our prompt for second paper was about picking four texts and analyzing how each use a concept of food to convey values. I chose to write about how food conveys the idea of personal growth through involvement in relationships. In the initial drafts of the paper, I was having the hardest time moving away from my experience of factual topic sentence. A prime example of my first draft from “Reflecting on myself” for instance, “Just like for composing food, knowing the balance of the ingredients is an intricate detail in recognizing the depth of flavors...,” showcases that I am using facts to introduce my paragraph. At the same time, I ignored to present a claim and specific texts for the paragraph. Disregarding to clearly state the claim and texts in topic sentences not only guides the readers to be confused, but it also affects the unity of the paragraph by having an unrelatable closing sentence. …show more content…
I believe that a writer should be able to gather all of their understanding of the texts to translate those thoughts it into few detailed sentences with minimal ambiguity. In my opinion, the main purpose of ENGL 1102 class was to allow my writerly lens to widen in the sense of exploring different texts while magnifying my ability to present a detail analysis for those evidences from the texts. Each of my papers allowed me to engage in many variety of texts, but I reckon that the struggle that I came across was effectively presenting my analysis. Not being able to clearly translate my reading of the evidences dragged my analysis to have incomplete ideas and be insufficient with details. However, a change of tide came along when I started to peer review others essays. Helping others with the same struggles and suggesting in details how to fix them allowed me to approach writing analysis with more freedom. For example, my suggestion from “Sharing same problems ” to William Wofford “getting married man's attention proved that no matter how talented a woman was, her beauty prevailed over her respect and made her an object," gives William a model of how to expand on his reading of “Birth of Venus” about women’s objectification. As a result,
Before ENGL 1102 class, I had thought that topic sentence of a paragraph needs to mention a fact that eventually leads to the claim and the texts of the paragraph. Also, I had believed that closing sentences of the paragraphs just needed to summarize the main ideas of the paragraph and not connect it back to the topic sentences. For example, our prompt for second paper was about picking four texts and analyzing how each use a concept of food to convey values. I chose to write about how food conveys the idea of personal growth through involvement in relationships. In the initial drafts of the paper, I was having the hardest time moving away from my experience of factual topic sentence. A prime example of my first draft from “Reflecting on myself” for instance, “Just like for composing food, knowing the balance of the ingredients is an intricate detail in recognizing the depth of flavors...,” showcases that I am using facts to introduce my paragraph. At the same time, I ignored to present a claim and specific texts for the paragraph. Disregarding to clearly state the claim and texts in topic sentences not only guides the readers to be confused, but it also affects the unity of the paragraph by having an unrelatable closing sentence. …show more content…
I believe that a writer should be able to gather all of their understanding of the texts to translate those thoughts it into few detailed sentences with minimal ambiguity. In my opinion, the main purpose of ENGL 1102 class was to allow my writerly lens to widen in the sense of exploring different texts while magnifying my ability to present a detail analysis for those evidences from the texts. Each of my papers allowed me to engage in many variety of texts, but I reckon that the struggle that I came across was effectively presenting my analysis. Not being able to clearly translate my reading of the evidences dragged my analysis to have incomplete ideas and be insufficient with details. However, a change of tide came along when I started to peer review others essays. Helping others with the same struggles and suggesting in details how to fix them allowed me to approach writing analysis with more freedom. For example, my suggestion from “Sharing same problems ” to William Wofford “getting married man's attention proved that no matter how talented a woman was, her beauty prevailed over her respect and made her an object," gives William a model of how to expand on his reading of “Birth of Venus” about women’s objectification. As a result,