Reflective Essay On My Writing Style

No matter how many times I’ll have to write one, reflections are always difficult. They make you look at yourself and your work and dissect every good and bad aspect of it. Sometimes it’s hard because just the task of analyzing one’s own work can be tricky, but my personal biggest issue is learning how to fix what I find specifically wrong. Part of this is due to my own writing style, along with the bad habits that come with it. However, throughout this class, I have learned more about how to relay my ideas more concisely to my audience and in a more summarized form. I may not still have a lot of improvement, considering this is only a ten week long class, but the fact that I’m consciously putting an effort into improving certainly makes the …show more content…
As for how they affect my writing, it’s as simple as my writing style becoming noticeably more passionate or aggressive when discussing a specific topic. This happened, for example, in my New York Times summary of Kate Manne’s article “Why I Use Trigger Warnings”. The subjects of trigger warnings and triggering material have both become very prominent in my life over the past several years, due to both instances of over-exaggeration and of personal experiences I or friends went through. Thus, I have now developed a very specific viewpoint on the topic. Part of this attitude and ideology I have acquired is clearly prominent in my rhetorical precis when I talk about the article’s intended audience. However, despite having such strong stances on certain topics, I am always eager to learn more and listen to people speak about topics from their own standpoint, even if what they think is not what I personally believe in. Keeping an open mind is always important when going at a topic, because without an open mind, on can’t learn from their mistaken beliefs and become further enlightened about the world around