Reflective Essay: Growing As A Writer

Growing as a Writer
Since English is my second language, my writing is growing slow. I took many ISL classes in Jefferson Community and Technical College to improve my English and writing. I took English 101, and 102. I leaned how to write MLA format essays. I learned how to in English (W 290) class. In this course I learned how to write APA format essays. During this class, I took this year I have not only grown as a student and a writer, but as a person as well. I feel that my experience of all these English courses I took, I grown my knowledge and became more confident. I realized that my writing skills in English courses extremely beneficial to me. Before I hate writing because I have hard time to write correct sentences and I had hard

time to get the rite vocabulary to match my sentences. Now, my writhing changed over the course of this semester and became much better after writing many essays.
We had many assignments in this semester. These assignments included research papers, shape of the essay, rhetorical and analysis, rhetorical, annotated bibliographies, and peer review, literature review, research papers, persuasive essays, learned how to do outline papers for persuasive essay, and write it in APA format essay. The essay parts are introduction, body, and conclusion. The body parts are background, description, rhetorical situation, discussion of genre, and rhetorical stance.
I learned to be a critical thinker to come up with my own unique observations of the visual.

I translated the writing essay to the visual essay. I used visual rhetoric when I watched a Big Cats video multiple times and I wrote an essay about it. In Big Cats essay, I summarized the video and discussed how the creator defined the rhetorical situation, I Supported my argument and the purpose of it. I explained why this genre is appropriate to the message and how affect it.
I learned how I could apply ethos, pathos, and logos to my essay assignment. Also, in on line class we write about persuasive essay. In this class, I learned about rhetorical appeals and this first time heard about it. Now I know rhetorical appeals are parts of writing such as rhetorical appeals of pathos, ethos, and logos. The most difficult part when writing is collaboration the different parts of the writing and making them work. The meaning of ethos is credibility of the persuader. The speaker
can make the message believe and be clear about the topic. Pathos is the way of persuasive the audience when use argument essay by creating an emotional response. In the essay the writer will understand the audience and knows what their beliefs are and what their needs or wants. Logos is facts and the way of persuading the audience by reason. We can use just the facts and we can use the quotes

experts.
Now, I know that persuasive essay should be completed in three parts, which are outline, peer reviewed first drafts, and a final drafts. All the rhetorical appeals can be use throughout a piece of writing to influence the reader. I can explain how I can support my points and opinion when I write my essays special arguments essays. Absolutely, my teacher was amazing and encouraged us to be good writers by reach our goals.
Conclusion
The writing course has been a great help in preparing me for my future facing with writing. My writing improved a lot than before, special the beginning of this semester. I hope that by knowing my weaknesses I will be able to improve my writing to succeed in future assignments. As general studies major, I understand that writing is going to become a large part of my career special when I get my master degree. With many of the goals in my life the things that I have learned should help me out a great deal.