Reflective Essay: Words For Hearing

Within my final portfolio are four essays that I have completed throughout composition 1 during the fall semester of 2015 at Collin College. These four essays include a literacy narrative, an article analysis essay, followed by an essay reporting information, and a position arguing essay. All four of these essays were written with one collective purpose. That purpose was to express my personal views on topics while constantly keeping the readers in consideration. While writing my literacy narrative, “Words for Hearing” my purpose was to formulate an essay and present the readers with a narrative that effectively presented my own experiences with both reading and writing. I did this by speaking on exactly how participating in the backstage …show more content…
I also lacked a variety of vivid detail throughout my paragraphs. This could have been done by adding more sensory details that gave more imagery to each scenario. The importance of vivid details within a literacy narrative usually is because of the need to create each scene in creative writing similar to one in a film or movie to fully get the reader involved. I also missed the opportunity to entirely give an explanation to the long time significance of the entire event on my personal life as a writer. This is followed by my article analysis essay titled, “Does Rap Have A Heavy Negative Influence on Our Youth Today?” This essay was written with the intention of stating my own interpretation of the article by Gretchen Cundiff titled, “The Influence of Rap/Hip-Hop Music…” Cundiff’s article was focused on the impact of rap and hip hop on today’s youth. While thoroughly giving examples in Cundiff’s article of the prevalent misinterpretations of the entirety of rap and hip-hop as a genre. I attempted to refrain from infusing my own views on the controversial topic throughout my