Reflective Essay: The Repercussions Of Animal Cruelty

In English 101, I believe I have met the goals and expectations. I have been taking risks with my writing and using information found through research to convey ideas and back up opinions. I have used appropriate and relevant language in my writings and have edited to ensure so. I have used MLA formatting correctly and have used correct grammar and spelling in all of my papers, editing through many different processes to ensure so. I have used reliable sources that back their conclusions on relevant, accurate information, and have avoided sites that are likely to have biased or incorrect information or that could be edited by anyone, such as wikipedia articles. Keeping these goals and expectations in mind, I used creditable sites to help convey my views. The most important views I wanted to convey all tend to lean toward ending animal cruelty. I did two out of the four of the essay on topics regarding my love of animals and the repercussions of animal cruelty. These types of topics are very important to me, as some of the most rewarding experiences in my life have come from my relationship with animals. Other topics I wrote about correlate to my love of art and painting. In the analysis essay, I relied heavily on my own experiences as an artist to help create interesting and informative writing. I …show more content…
Having set headings helped me to keep organized and made the process quicker and much less painful. I took a risk in choosing a topic that I feel strongly about, and though this may have hurt me, I believe it was a good choice. I didn’t tend to use lists in my other papers because I wasn’t entirely sure how to use them, but as the class progressed I became more familiar with that type of formating and plan to use it again later on. It might not have much of a place in all papers, but it certainly makes some topics easier to keep track of and helps keep things flowing and