#15

I expected to achieve college level of writing that I could use the writing skill in my future academic life. As I was writing through the reflection essay for my portfolio, I felt I learned how to understand a rhetorical situation for reading and writing which is going to be very beneficial skill to use in future. For my other classes’ assignment, I could apply the skill and it will contribute my academic life such as getting better grades. I still work on writing concisely and clearly and context organization as well. I would like to continue develop to focus on the main idea as I write and I need to work on the grammar, too. I think I achieved more than I expected. Even though I have many weaknesses to improve, I struggled through the semester to become a better writer. Now I am able to understand the rhetorical principles such as targeting audiences, purpose of writing, stance, tone, and genre. I will study continuously and I will do my best to be a good writer.

#14

I chose to revise my ad analysis essay for my portfolio. The strengths of my ad analysis were that I described the advertisement efficiently and clearly stated my idea of the advertisement. The weaknesses were that my paper was not organized concisely and I put irrelevant statement in the concluding paragraph which wandered from the main topic.

I am going to work in better organization my paragraphs to effectively revise my essay. I believe the instructor’s comment on my paper will help to revise my ad analysis paper. As I go over each paragraph, I will consider how the paragraph focuses on my thesis and relates to the topic. Moreover, I will us summarize of my paragraphs, that I wrote in the class before, to check my main idea is stated logically and plausibly. I am going to ask myself as a skeptical reader, that each claim I made were reasonable, and effectively support. I will work on the organization effectively and avoid irrelevant sentence. I hope that this process will help me to revise my essay easily, effectively, and stick on my main idea throughout the essay.