Academic Writing Reflection The first essay that I have chosen to reflect upon is one of my first ones in Freshman year. I decided to pick my first essay that I wrote in high school so I can see how much I have grown. Going into freshman year, I was really bad at writing essays and I hated doing them. In middle school, I didn’t really learn how to write well written essays because I was in the lower level class for english. My first essay that I had written was on determination in The Scarlet Ibis, by James Hurst. I do not even remember reading this story. I did not know how to use MLA format. My sentences were too short and I needed to put commas. I was also bad at keeping my essay in the same tense. The one thing I was good at was
