1. The writing I have done in high school and ENGL 1301 helped me how to understand the literature and essays deeply. I took literature classes when I was in high school. In those classes, I needed to write what the purposes and subjects of the novels or poems were. For writing, I figured out implied meanings of sources, backgrounds of the authors for better understanding, and lessons or messages the authors wanted to deliver. Surprisingly, college-level writing in the first semester was quite different, but the fundamental idea was similar; that is, to put me in another person`s shoes. Throughout ENGL 1301 assignments, I realized that there were specific steps to make my rhetorical analysis essay. To start with the paraphrasing part, I learned
