Reflection Essay 'Higher Education: Is It Worth The Cost?'

During English 112 I felt that I grew as a writer. I was taught time management, a better writing process, new formatting, and became more grammatically efficient. Although I did grow, there were obviously some issues with my writing. Throughout my essays, I have noticed that I need work on word variation, transitions, and comma usage. One of my peers suggested for word choice that I could look over my paper and if I use a word multiple times in a paragraph then I could try to look up a synonym in the thesaurus which is a great literary tool.
In “Higher Education: Is it worth the cost?”, my argumentative essay, I give my argument as well as multiple counterarguments on the discussion. My argument was that although college is much overpriced, it is nearly impossible to function without a degree in today’s society. The counterarguments include that other viable options are community college, technical schools, and the military. One change that I would make looking back to improve my …show more content…
I approached this in an argumentative fashion, and I wanted to determine how a thirst for revenge affected a person’s personality. In this essay I think my strength came in my simplistic approach and by not trying to overcomplicate the subject matter. I also used a variety of evidence from the book “Hamlet” to support my claims about Shakespeare’s writing style. Additionally, I think my summary of the book was short but covered the book well. Some changes I would make include a stronger thesis statement along with more advanced use of resources. My topic sentence of the essay should introduce the main idea of the paper, which my thesis failed to do. Although I had an ample amount of resources, I used them incorrectly. I was using them to make points as opposed to using them to using them as a support system for my claims. My largest issue in this essay was my lack of knowledge on how to write a literary analysis