In my experience of essay writing, I was always given topics and a focus for the essay. But within this class, I was given the flexibility to write about a topic of my choosing; this made and endless list of possibilities. The parameters were set by the rubrics and overall career based topic, but it allotted me the chance to creatively and effectively write. Throughout the process of writing the three assigned essays (compare/contrast, cause/effect, and research), I have gained a new prospective on formulating my ideas into a well written essay. I expanded my writing process immensely through the construction of the compare/contrast, cause/effect, and research essays.
During the construction of my compare/contrast essay I had multiple writing …show more content…
A repeating issue throughout my papers is the focus and topic but the most helpful writing process came from my cause/effect essay. The topic was fairly simple for my research paper because I based it off of my cause/effect essay but I had to refocus the paper to make it more researchable. I went from “Long term foster care has many adverse effects on child development such as residual trauma, instability, emotional detachment, and weak self-sufficiency” to “Children who enter long term foster care develop a distorted sense of self-sufficiency as a result of ongoing trauma, placement instability, and aging out”. I kept the same topic of long term foster care, focused it on self-sufficiency, reworded my supporting points to ongoing trauma and placement stability, and added aging out to my supportive points. Referring back to my completed cause/effect essay not only assisted in the process of creating a topic but also in the research process. Throughout my cause/effect essay I highlighted claims that I had made d turned them into researchable questions. For example, one claim was “ children who experience trauma are more susceptible to developing PTSD”. From this claim I created the research question “What is the probability of a child developing PTSD who has been exposed to trauma”. Through this question I was able to find the supportive evidence I needed to prove my claim, “Children who have histories of abuse and neglect are at significantly higher risk of developing posttraumatic stress
During the construction of my compare/contrast essay I had multiple writing …show more content…
A repeating issue throughout my papers is the focus and topic but the most helpful writing process came from my cause/effect essay. The topic was fairly simple for my research paper because I based it off of my cause/effect essay but I had to refocus the paper to make it more researchable. I went from “Long term foster care has many adverse effects on child development such as residual trauma, instability, emotional detachment, and weak self-sufficiency” to “Children who enter long term foster care develop a distorted sense of self-sufficiency as a result of ongoing trauma, placement instability, and aging out”. I kept the same topic of long term foster care, focused it on self-sufficiency, reworded my supporting points to ongoing trauma and placement stability, and added aging out to my supportive points. Referring back to my completed cause/effect essay not only assisted in the process of creating a topic but also in the research process. Throughout my cause/effect essay I highlighted claims that I had made d turned them into researchable questions. For example, one claim was “ children who experience trauma are more susceptible to developing PTSD”. From this claim I created the research question “What is the probability of a child developing PTSD who has been exposed to trauma”. Through this question I was able to find the supportive evidence I needed to prove my claim, “Children who have histories of abuse and neglect are at significantly higher risk of developing posttraumatic stress