Reflective Essay On Immigration Reform

When I enrolled in this course we started out by writing a personal narrative that would describe our backgrounds and what we’re looking forward to learning or improving on during it. I wanted to write about the pipeline, it being a controversial topic, drew my interest in wanting to write an argumentative paper that would prove my stance. As I continued throughout the course I learned that it might not be a smart idea to write about it because I already had a stance to the issue making it harder for me to be able to reason with the opposing side and giving them the recognize that they deserve. I am a huge procrastinator when it comes to writing, just because of the uncertainty that I always get when starting an assignment. I was never sure
of whether my plan for my writing was even on the correct path. We then continued by doing a says does analysis, by reading an article of our chose we analyzed it, and decided what the author was trying to say and do. From this perspective, this assignment helped improve my writing in the perspective that I could understand how to make my writing more meaningful and understanding, without misleading my readers. Later we wrote a Rhetorical Analysis where I was challenged to interpret two authors article. It was called “Immigrants don’t commit more crimes. Why does the myth persist?” I analyzed false accusations made of undocumented immigrants and how they were blamed for bringing their cultural tendencies to the United States causing the skyrocketing of unlawful actions to the country. I honestly felt quite aspired to write this assignment. At first I, did start out writing it in the wrong direction, as I figured that out I was also told my professor and classmates that I might not want to necessarily narrate the story but analyze the ethos, logos, pathos, and Kairos. Immigration has always been one of my favorite topics, just in the fact that several people are affected by this situation and the great impact that it has among today’s society. The evidence that Bersani and Piquero was somewhat effective in my point of view. Something like a personal story of an immigrants would have been perfect to catch the reader’s attention. The pathos of the article was most my favorite throughout the essay, with the publication of a picture of a young undocumented boy from Honduras holding the American flag in his hands. This along with the well supported and creditability of the surveys completed goes to show that “immigrants have a strong support for the judicial system of the United States.” Separating this article among its sections most definitely helped me clearly understand what the authors purpose was. Starting my essays out with an outline helped me organize my ideas to make the flow of my writing better. Throughout my project proposal I emphasized on my personal attachment to the topic of immigration. As well as several motives that undocumented immigrants have that they pursue when coming to the United States. By reiterating the presidential elect’s words “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists,” I could prove my point in that immigrants have been stereotyped for years with little to no evidence. When I created my proposal, I knew I wanted to certainly write about the injustices that immigrants experience. But wasn’t quite sure how to go about it so that my readers and specifically those of the opposing side could learn to see my reasoning to why undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be unfairly treated. I started out by researching different angles to the stance of people on immigration. Doing so gave me an idea of ways that I could necessarily persuade the opposing side. While remaining clear on my stance. To do so I used Academic Search Complete, Lexis Nexis, and other organization websites as well as a video. I later proof read each article and highlighted things that stood out to me or seemed to help my argument. I started my exploratory essay with my personal background and understanding of the subject. Continuing, I analyzed every single resource that I used, as well as summarized them each. A lot of the articles that I read included a lot of information that I was very familiar with, which made it easier to understand the author. By doing my exploratory essay I could examine the aspect of immigration. I finally continued onto my final paper, the Classical Argumentative Essay.
When I was assigned this essay, I thought it was completely impossible for me to write eight pages about immigration. I started out by gathering ideas and different things that immigrants did that would lead my readers to agree with me on the significance of an immigration reform. I started out my essay and finished what I had to say, but I only had 3 pages done, so I attended the writing center, provided by the University. There I was helped on expanding my essay and I learned to read through my essay and further explain things such as “The beast train,” which is a something that not everyone knows very much
about. So, to make it easier on myself I started completely over on my essay.
I added a story at the beginning about two undocumented twins that came to the United States with their younger sister and mother when they were only 5 years old. I went through and explain the benefit of undocumented immigrants in the United States. In a study performed by the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, it was found that undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $11.64 billion a year. Along with several other scholarly articles, I feel like I completed my objective of providing a strong argument onto why immigrants deserve a new immigration reform to be put into
place.