Cultural Analysis Essay Examples

I decided to repurpose my essay from the first unit. After looking back through my essays, the cultural analysis essay was my weakest and the one I struggled with most. It also happened to be our first major essay. Instead of going the conservative route and choosing my best essay to repurpose, I wanted to repurpose the cultural analysis essay for a few reasons. First, I thought it would be most convenient for the multi-modal aspect of this assignment because my original essay involved pictures that I analyzed. Right away, I had a visual mode to work with. My other reason of choosing to repurpose my weakest essay was because after looking it over, I realized that the essay truly shows how drastic of an improvement I have made as a writer because of this class- and because of …show more content…
I never had confidence in my writing, so a first major writing assignment in my first college english class was intimidating to me. After conquering the task of finding images I wanted to analyze, I was faced with the actual analysis of the images. I could not stop second guessing myself: Is my analysis too far-fetched? Does my analysis make sense? Am I missing something obvious and important? I was overwhelmed with these thoughts and dreaded the writing part of the essay assignment. My ideas could not be unorganized and my frustration made it worse. Sweetland did not help, non-sufficient outlines drafts were everywhere, I just could not figure it out. Finally, after four days of writing and deleting, I got somewhere. I made sense of my analysis and, although now I see that my essay was sloppy and scattered, I finished my first major essay for my first english class in college. Coming back to this essay I was really excited to work with visual mode again. I just finished a photo essay in a different class that I was really excited about. I also was excited to confidently analyze new pictures to show myself how much I have grown from this