English 1021 Reflection

My revision of “Face it, America!” that follows this cover letter reflects what I have learned in English 1021 so far. While revising this essay, I learned when to use present tense in my writing and past tense in my writing when appropriate. In this class, I have learned to use more transitions and appropriate transitions in my writing. My revision reflects this because in my second paragraph where I mention the significance of police officers, I use transition words for every new sentence that needs it. I also learned many transitions are only useful for certain sentences. For example, I wouldn’t be able to use the transition word “finally” at the beginning of my introduction

Moreover, I have also learned to make the title of my essays more interesting and strong. My revision reflects this because when I was peer reviewing, many of my classmates told me to add an exclamation point after America to make my title stronger. Furthermore, I have also learned to put titles in quotation marks, even when they are in the middle of a …show more content…
For example, before I revised my paper, I wrote twenty fifteen, however I later learned that I could just type the numbers instead of spelling out the word as you can see I say, “… 2015 will be a year recorded in history...” in the fifth paragraph. Most importantly, I learned to write with purpose. For example, this whole essay was inspired by the people who I talked to about this movement. It was inspired by the media coverage and the victims themselves. As someone who is planning on becoming a police officer, I felt that agreeing and defending this movement was going against everything an officer stood for. However, I come to learn about myself and learned to differentiate between my future job, and the morals I hold. In spite of the many things I learned, I still want to continue improving and always welcome criticism in my