Reflection On English 1101

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In English 1101, I learned a multitude of important conditions as a young writer. I legitimately enjoyed this class because it helped me step out of my writing comfort zone. During this course, I learned how to write several different types of papers, including argumentative, research, and analytical and exposition. Over this course, I have learned how to develop and write several different types of essays.
As a writer, one has to make several rhetorical choices for their paper. This is mostly done without even knowing there are any rhetorical choices being made. In every paper, I learned that a writer has to establish a genre, find the purpose of the paper, zone in on an audience, find their own voice, and decide on the type of media and

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