English 101: Improving Writing Skills

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When I came into the English 101 class I expected to improve my writing skills. At first, I was a little worried about the amount of time I had to finish each essay. As I read the instructions for each of them I felt like they were too difficult and confusing. However towards the end of the trimester I began to understand how to compose the essays while having the right information. I chose to attach essay 3 and 4 because I felt like they showed how much I have improved and how the issues were explained properly, while focusing on main tasks. Therefore, throughout the English 101 class I thought that understanding rhetoric and generating ideas towards arguments was the hardest.

As I finished each of the essays they became less difficult and I began to put the essays together at a faster pase. My third essay focuses on the issue with considering obesity a disease or not through different information that Crystal L. Hoyt and Jeni L. Burnette gathered in their researches and added to their article. Their views seemed to support obesity being a disease but they also had data to oppose the argument. By adding the decision from the American Medical Association it developed a more stronger opinion to support obesity as a disease. In my essay I considered the major issue with obesity to be a disease by adding a strong response to support
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I improved on making the claims debatable and being able to connect them with the essay in general. Now as I approach writing assignments I will make use of my time and focus on forming the essay to relate to the main task. There were changes in the way I approached the school reform essay opposed to the obesity one because I knew more information towards the problems with failing schools. Since I knew more of how to respond, analyze, and summarise from the previous essay’s the tasks seemed less

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