Reflective Essay On My Writing Process

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Throughout this semester, My Writing has been improved in relation to understanding the genre conventions and identifying the rules for different writing processes. One of the topics I learned how to master throughout this semester is becoming better at in-text citations. Another topic that my writing has improved in is in media res. In media res might have been one of the hardest parts I had to try to learn and had to improve on. The third improvement in my writing process had to be on genre conventions such as thesis statements, rhetorical analysis, and organization. The final accomplishment is knowing which type of writing is for which audience. These topics are the topics that changed in my writing process. These accomplishments were a little hard to accomplish, but I tried my best to accomplish them and I didn’t just accomplish them I mastered these topics.
Throughout this semester, I became better and
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In media res was used in my unit one paper, and it was pretty hard at first. After learning about it and asking questions to my professor, it became a little easier. In media res is French and it means you start your essay with the climax of you story. I used this in my Literacy Narrative essay which was my unit one essay. In media re is really important to the writing process, it helps grab the reader’s attention and make the reader want to keep reading to know the full story of what is going on. To really start an in media res story you have to start where the main point of the story is or where all the excitement happens. I learned that just to interest the reader it is always good to start with an in media res. I also learned that an in media res can be used to organize and draft the essay. In media res starts out in the middle of the things, then after the in media res, the begging of the story starts. In media res took me a while to actually learn and understand it to the

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