Reflective Essay: How To Get Away With Murder

Throughout this semester, I have learned a lot about how to write a good essay. am not a great writer and I will never be a great writer. My writing this semester has been below average. I find my writing to be very basic and it doesn 't grab the reader’s attention. I have more weaknesses in my writing than strengths.
The first thing in the writing process is to choose a topic. My topics during this semester have been ok but nothing outside the box that would grab a reader’s attention. My first paper was a review on the television show How to Get Away With Murder. A review on How to Get Away with Murder was a major mistake because I picked one of the most complicated television show to review. How to Get Away With Murder is very complicated to understand because there are a lot of flashbacks and flash forwards. Trying to putting in words how and when a flashforward or flashback happen was very difficult. However, I did have a favorite topic I choose. My favorite topic was the gender pay gap in Hollywood. I chose it because I was interested in the topic and wanted to read more about how women in Hollywood are effected by the gender pay gap. One thing I learned this semester when choosing a topic is to know your limits and think …show more content…
The title is supposed to grab the readers attention and let them know what the essay is going to be about. In my first essay, my title was How to Get Away With Murder. It sounds as a great title, but that 's actually the name of the television show I wrote a review on. The second title of my essay was Legend Live On, that sound as an okay title but dissent grab a readers attention. That was not a great title and could have been way better. The title of my third essay was the best of all three and it was The Dark Side of Hollywood. I learned when choosing a title it is important to think outside the box in your essay and not to copy the title of the movie or television show that you are writing