Throughout the year, I learned to write in a variety of styles. These styles include poetry, vignettes, and journals. My writing style has changed most significantly in my analytical essays. I used to only use the quotation to prove and explain plot points, but now I have learned how to use the quotations to explain ideas. For example, in my essay about A Rose for Emily, I said, “Emily asks for some poison to kill Homer and sleeps with his dead corpse every night” (Wang “Short” 1). This was a clear plot point that I still tried to prove, which was completely unnecessary and took away from the main focus of the essay. Now I actually use the quotations to prove another idea that’s more discrete and more pertinent to my essay. For example, in
