Reflective Essay Of My Writing

Reflective Essay
At the beginning of the semester, my impression on writing essays was that doing them was bothersome and tiring. Towards the end of the semester, my feelings have completely changed. First I changed my writing style and then I changed my personal habits. For the actual writing part I took more time developing the outline. With concern to my own personal habits I simply organized the way I managed my allotted time between working on the paper’s structure and the paper itself. Moving on to discussing the essays I will rank them in order from difficult to easy: rhetorical analysis, summary, argumentative, character analysis, memoir, and lastly the reflective essay. Out of these six essays I am choosing the character analysis simply
because I feel it was the simplest to complete.
Firstly I will begin by talking about my initial view on essays as a whole. As I stated in my introduction how I felt about the process was abysmal at best. Throughout my high school days I had trouble understanding how to begin writing at all. What this would inevitably lead to is not being able doing the assignment correctly and thereby not getting a good grade. Then I would be discouraged about writing and not give my best effort the next time for fear that the result was set in stone. That was my mindset at the start of the term.
Regardless of that negative outlook I soon realized that I had gotten better as the semester continued.
This slow but continuous improvement came from my being able to put the process in a way that made writing simpler to do. First off I learned to manage my time a lot better. Normally I would think about a paper one-day can then write it the next. Instead I now think about the paper, write an outline, and then over the course of several days write the paper and proof read as I go along. Now that I have begun to master time so as not to scramble in the eleventh hour hastily putting a bunch of random ideas together, I then moved on to the meat and potatoes of the project. Instead of a free-handed essay I slowed my pace down and put all of my ideas into an outline; then and only then would I even put the pen to paper. Just doing these two simple steps has as I feel improved my writing prowess
significantly.
Moving on to the final topic I will be discussing the essays themselves. More specifically, I will be discussing the character analysis. I am choosing to discuss this particular essay over the other five because it was crucial in helping me cement the simplicity of the writing process. All that was required for this essay was to read the story to pick a character, evaluate your character, and then plan out your essay. In my case I chose the blind man from the cathedral as my character and how stereotypes aren’t based on any actual facts as my thesis statement. Afterwards I read the short story that contained my subject and chose the best points that would strengthen my thesis statement. Lastly came actually putting my findings into essay form. That’s all that it took for me to write my character analysis.
In conclusion, my mood at the start of the term and at its end is as different as day and night.
The cause is as I previously stated due to having managed my time more effectively. Another remedy I applied was that each time I gave it my all effort-wise. Rating the essays was very difficult because each one had certain aspects about it that would either make it harder or easier than its companions. For example, in the rhetorical analysis you had to be objective and state what it was the author was trying to achieve with his/her paper and that was difficult to do because it is not easy to see things from another’s perspective. I will just order them in order from hardest to easiest based on my own personal opinion. First is the rhetorical analysis, then the argumentative essay, followed by the summary essay, the character analysis, the memoir, and lastly the reflective essay. While there may be plenty of room for improvement, mostly in the grammar area I feel that there is no paper that I can’t write no matter the type nor the
length.