Reflective Essay Analysis: How Male And Female Students Use Language Differently

Two months has already passed by since this course has started. We have been doing a lot of things which might be the review of things from high school but there are also topics which we have learned after attending this Basic Skills course. One of them would be reading essays and to analyze them in groups. When we were told to analyze Tannen’s essay, I found it difficult to analyze and fully understand so the lesson on Tannen’s essay analysis was useful and helpful for me. I have tried to annotate the essay by myself however I was not able to fully understand what she wanted to convey to the readers after reading her essay of “How Male and Female Students use Language Differently”. Even with the help of the handout analysis sheet, it was hard to understand Tannen’s message. In class, we had a discussion session on Tannen’s essay. Just like what Tannen wrote on her essay of “smaller group interaction should be part of any class that is not a small …show more content…
This made it more difficult to join in the group discussion. However with the help of the analysis handout, even when I was in the group discussion, I was about to talk about what I thought about the essay and where I thought was the methods of developments that Tannen used in her paragraphs with my group members. I found it hard to understand this Tannen essay but with the help of the analysis handout and the group discussion, I was able to realize things which I was not able to when I was reading alone and discuss on places where I did not understand and try to help each other. From this experience, I would like to work more in groups and to listen to other people’s thought on essays and what they got from the