Reflection Towards A Greater Understanding

Essay writing requires writing skills as well as the open mindedness to improve as I progress in my writing skills.

Ideas and Content

With having the experience of writing not only the Alchemist essay, but the Julius Caesar one too, it has become clear to me as a writer that one of my strongest and yet weakest points is my ability to provide good ideas and content throughout the entire essay. In the Alchemist, I demonstrated a clear ability to provide the entire idea of my essay, within my theses statement: Santiago is beckoned by his destiny’s calling when he dreamed of treasure in Egypt, his adaptable nature, open minded views and faithful heart guiding him along the way. As the essay progressed however, I began to falter as my content became steadily less relevant to the thesis statement. I have improved since then and my Julius Caesar essay is the proof I have for my hard work and improvement strategies. For one of my main topic sentences I found a clear example of ideas and content: Throughout the play, Marc Antony will be constantly driven to avenge Caesar without mercy due to his revengeful spirit and unswayable loyalty, yet one question always remains: ‘Was Marc Antony’s goal worthy or noble of its cause?’ Still, I wish to persist with improving my ideas and content strength in my essay writing by maintaining a strong relevance towards my entire essay. I can also improve on my weakness within ideas and content by revising my writing before I publish it or revise it out-loud to give a well crafted essay with a solid A in ideas and content.

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Organization

In both of my essays, I have shown a good ability in organization throughout all of the paragraphs. However, my organization skills have shown improvement, my examples of my improvement would come from all of my thesis statements and conclusions drawn from my studies of the essay topic and application of them. To upgrade my writing to a superior form of organization, I would take action to plan out the guidelines of my essay for each paragraph thoroughly as well as check with the rubric to make sure I have included everything I needed to in the most effective and striking way possible.

Personal Growth

Yes, I have improved in my clarity and ideas/concepts involving the topic of the essay, especially from reflecting back on the Alchemist, I see a strong growth and a huge leap of learning that has been very beneficial. In my organization however, I do feel I could improve far more by staying more on topic.

SLR Reflection

In an essay, reasoning critically is vital in order to organize your paragraphs as clearly as possible and to achieve a clear understanding with your reader. Reasoning critically will obtain a guarantee of a good grade as well as a chance to use the full extent of your abilities by thinking in new and dynamic ways.