At the beginning of the semester I have struggled with the critical thinking category. But thought English 101 it has improved. I struggled with reading a text and identifying the purpose and the audience. I also struggled with, analyzing as well as respond to the different audience and contexts. The literacy narrative helped me to understand what my audience, purpose, and genre was. We also learned about the rhetorical triangle which helped a lot before writing the narrative. Helped me to identify my purpose, the audience, and my topic before writing the essay its self. Another activity was the two giraffe articles which helped by identify the purpose and the audience. Both articles were about the same thing however the purpose of the articles