Assignment # 15 Final Reflection

As I look back to all of my writing I will say that my writing have changed since then. Sometimes it is too hard to express your thoughts in writing especially when English is second language for a person. As looking all of writing in this semester, I can feel how my wring has been improved over this short time. Furthermore, in writing I better understood the purpose of essays, and I also improved my writing in developing my ideas clearly, including enough examples and evidences. Also for each of those essays, which were assigned during this semester in class, I get good sense of including rhetorical situation in my papers.

My goals in future English classes are to improve and develop further in writing. I strongly believe course of English 101 will help me in my next English 102 course. 

Assignment # 14 Revision

For my portfolio I chose to revise my 4^th argumentative essay. The strongest side of my essay was that I effectively introduced my thesis statements. However, the weaknesses were that I did not focus on my thesis statement. Some evidences were on my topic but some were off my thesis statement.

Once I have a thesis statement, now I have to come up with good evidences to support my thesis statement and argue my position. I will write out my arguable position and then I will list several reasons, which will fit with my thesis statement. Also I will ask myself which reasons are best for my purpose and audience. 

Then I will work on my organizations. To organize effectively my argument's evidences I will follow chart of organizing arguments. First, I will introduce my idea what I will talk about in my essay, then I will state my thesis, then I will give first, second and third evidences to support my thesis, at last I will write effective conclusion. 

Overall, if I will look all of these steps then my paper should be well organized and focused on my thesis statement. 

Assignment # 13 Favorite Paper

My favorite essay was an advertisement analysis. I consider this essay most interesting to analyze and write about. At the same time, the advertisement was hard to analyze because for the image and text. I had to carefully study both the image’s and text’s language to get entirely ad’s meaning. It was easy for me to clearly write about purpose, audience and style. Also I had follow well and organize my introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion.

Overall, the image and text was interesting to analyze, to get main idea what it says and why it is expressed in that way. This essay also helped me with learning style like generating my ideas, by deciding what and how I want to analyze given text and study what is hidden behind a text which has to be analyzed. I became more comfortable about analyzing text and think more critically. I enjoyed a lot analyzing this advertisement paper. 

Assignment # 12 Evidence

“Parents should not force their children what they want to do in the future, such as, choosing a major. Therefore, parents should let their children make their own decisions.” This is the arguable thesis I wrote to support my evidences.

• The evidence that I find strongest and compelling part of my argument is that parents try to help to their teenage children by advising what they should study in college, but this advice might mislead their children. I believe that this is strong and one of the interesting evidence because it fits with my thesis statement. On the other words, parent’s force may have a wrong cause in their children’s decision.

• The evidence that I think is the weakest part of my paper is that children by deciding own choices, this self decision will increase self-confidence and understanding in personality of the person. This evidence might be a good one for my paper but I did not give good example to support my evidence. So I consider this evidence the weakest in my argumentative paper. If I wrote more prevalent examples this evidence might be a better.