Reflective Essay On Visual Analysis

Writing is something that I have always dreaded, but at the same time enjoyed. I never actually noticed how much I enjoyed writing until Professor Clark, told us about her writing anxiety and how sometimes she just didn’t want to write, but its something she still loves to do. This was a huge step for me in realizing that just because I don’t like writing sometimes, doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy it overall. Along with this, this course and Professor Clark have helped me learn a lot about writing and the writing process.
Our first assignment, a paragraph about a major goal in my life, was one I was really excited to write and ended up with a B/B+ grade. I wrote my paragraph on a weight loss goal I had when I was only twelve years old. When I got this paper back, there was a lot of punctuation errors. The biggest error that was consistent was the lack and misuse of commas. In my one paragraph, I had eight comma errors alone. After this paper I worked hard to …show more content…
I received an A/A- on this paper, which I was really proud of because I had a hard time writing this essay. The Visual analysis essay was one I struggled with at the beginning because I could not figure out how I wanted to structure my paper. I took this problem to Professor Clark and she showed me some examples and helped me with some ideas on how to set up my paper. I decided to use the first half of the essay to describe everything in the ad, and the second half to analyze what everything in the ad meant. I feel this essay was one of my strongest writings because of the detail in my description and the rationality of my analysis. I did forget to cite one of my sources in my text because most of this essay was my own ideas. All in all, I feel this essay was a great way to help not only our writing skills, but also to look at ad’s in a new way and realize what the company/brand wants us to