As a freshman college student who hasn’t seen a classroom in over twenty-five years, I didn’t have confidence in my writing capabilities at the beginning of this class. I have since discovered how to read critically, how to find and research credible sources, and have been able to find and enjoy multiple complexities within a numerous texts. All of this has given me a profound understanding and enjoyment of literature and the skills to develop a well thought-out paper. For my synthesis essay, “Imagery and Metaphor: The Vision of Dover Beach,” I give it an exemplary rating, due to my successful understanding and completion of the course’s main goals. With this self-reflection essay, I will prove that I have the skill and knowledge to create
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For my synthesis essay, I began my initial research by following Harris’s Credibility Accuracy Reasonableness Support (CARS) guidelines and found five scholarly articles that assisted me in my argument. After the drafting and editing process, I discovered I only needed to use three of them: "Truncating Coleridgean Conversation And The Re-Visioning Of "Dover Beach” by Lauren Caldwell, "Englishness, Ethnicity And Matthew Arnold" by Joep Leerssen, and "Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds" by Albert J. Lubell. In the first paragraph of my essay I integrated evidence from Joep Leerssen’s article which assisted in the introduction of my thesis statement. My use of quotations and citations within the essay are near perfect. It is also a prime example of the MLA documentation with its perfectly spaced margins, double-spaced lines, listed identification and creative …show more content…
By giving a brief background of England during the time the poem was written, Matthew Arnold’s history and personality, and strong quotes from the poem that support my own ideas, I clearly show that I have the ability to critically analyze and evaluate college-level readings. Furthermore, the language, tone and style of my paper undoubtedly show my ability to write at a college level. An exemplary paper allows for only a few minor exceptions. Mine was a run-on sentence in paragraph one, “It was published in 1867 but written in separate parts in the early 1850s during a time in England when communications and transportation were advancing so fast that the Victorian Era seemed to be a thing of the past.” Had I taken the extra time to proofread this particular essay prior to submitting it as I did with my others during this course, I would have caught and restated it more clearly. I should have written it like this: Although it was published in 1867, it was written in separate parts in the early 1850’s. During this time in England, communications and transportation was advancing so fast that the Victorian Era seemed to be a thing of the
For my synthesis essay, I began my initial research by following Harris’s Credibility Accuracy Reasonableness Support (CARS) guidelines and found five scholarly articles that assisted me in my argument. After the drafting and editing process, I discovered I only needed to use three of them: "Truncating Coleridgean Conversation And The Re-Visioning Of "Dover Beach” by Lauren Caldwell, "Englishness, Ethnicity And Matthew Arnold" by Joep Leerssen, and "Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds" by Albert J. Lubell. In the first paragraph of my essay I integrated evidence from Joep Leerssen’s article which assisted in the introduction of my thesis statement. My use of quotations and citations within the essay are near perfect. It is also a prime example of the MLA documentation with its perfectly spaced margins, double-spaced lines, listed identification and creative …show more content…
By giving a brief background of England during the time the poem was written, Matthew Arnold’s history and personality, and strong quotes from the poem that support my own ideas, I clearly show that I have the ability to critically analyze and evaluate college-level readings. Furthermore, the language, tone and style of my paper undoubtedly show my ability to write at a college level. An exemplary paper allows for only a few minor exceptions. Mine was a run-on sentence in paragraph one, “It was published in 1867 but written in separate parts in the early 1850s during a time in England when communications and transportation were advancing so fast that the Victorian Era seemed to be a thing of the past.” Had I taken the extra time to proofread this particular essay prior to submitting it as I did with my others during this course, I would have caught and restated it more clearly. I should have written it like this: Although it was published in 1867, it was written in separate parts in the early 1850’s. During this time in England, communications and transportation was advancing so fast that the Victorian Era seemed to be a thing of the