Reflective Essay: My Development As A Writer

I came into my first semester of paideia thinking I had a strong background in writing from my previous high school courses. However, it was brought to my attention that there were several ways that I could improve my writing thus leading to stronger, more solid papers. I am first going to give you two examples of how I have developed as a writer. My first point of development is making my theses more clear and specific. I am going to compare my weak thesis in Paper two to my Paper Three’s strong thesis to prove that I have made improvement. The thesis in my second paper reads “Victor Frankenstein’s morals regressed throughout the development of the creature by not giving the creature emotional support or the education that he needed to live as a normal human” (Paper Two Thesis). The first issue with this thesis is that it is very broad. I should have pined down a specific reason as to why Victor Frankenstein’s morals regressed from lack of emotional support for the creature. There are many ways the creatures emotions could have been supported and how he could have been educated. Focusing on two or three of those ways would have made that part of my thesis more specific. Adding those specific ways would have lead to a clearer …show more content…
I am going to compare how I improved from not using the lecture in my first paper to how I provided ample evidence in my third paper. The first issue in Paper One was brought to my attention by Dr. Gardner who said “it would have helped your essay to use Klammer lecture material on pro-slavery humanitarian argument to set the paper up” (Paper One, bottom of forth page). Meaning, before I started in on my argument, I should have given the reader the pro-slavery argument. Doing so would have given the reader an insight as to why people (like slave owners) in the 1800’s thought in-slaving humans was a way of “bettering” and “improving”