Reflective Essay For English 1010

Dear First Year Writing Assessment Committee: In this letter, I will explain my learning outcomes and experiences with my essays for English 1010. English 1010, defined by academic standards, is to develop in first-year college writers a deeper understanding of the complexities of writing through instruction and guided practice in the skills, processes, and strategies necessary for effective, successful writing. In my past semester of English 1010, I was able to demonstrate my abilities to be an effective writer and enhance my writing skills through guiding essay projects. I do believe my abilities were improved in topics including: finding the author’s purpose, explaining ideas, revising, editing, proofreading, organizing the structure of my paper, and etc. In identifying the author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context to determine effective writing, I used different approaches in each of the three essay papers. In the literacy narrative, my purpose was to inform readers …show more content…
My voice for the literacy narrative was more relaxed and more in depth and personal than in my other essays. The literacy narrative started off with “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (US 1776). I used this as my introduction to bring attention into my narrative. The introduction for my discourse community was “What does it take to make a marching band great? Pride! What? Pride! What? Pride!” Again, I used my first sentence to be an attention catcher for my formality and tone for the audience. Since my last essay was researched based and used graphs and ananlticual information, my introduction was more formal than the past two. Each essay displayed college effective vocabulary and organizational