Reflect on your experiences with essay writing. What aspects of writing essays do you find most engaging or challenging? Discuss your personal strengths as a writer as well as specific areas where you experience difficulty or would like to improve. Support your reflection with clear examples from your own writing experiences.

 writing prompt: One aspect I find most engaging when writing an essay is really thinking about how I want the essay to be. Brainstorming how I want things to be and exactly what sentence has to be there. In addition, I really love to enjoy writing big words, it makes my writing sound mature and understandable.  Some people do underestimate me in the sense of them thinking I'm using AI or when I try to revise their work, they think I'm trying to hard to fix it. I always thought writing should be unique. 

Example: Explain why apples are better than bananas.

Apple are better than bananas because they contain fiber that is critical for your health. It is an important factor of our well-being and should be more consumed. 

If I could, I would just say because their good. However, I just wrote that sentence like if it came from an ad. I make sure my writing and explanations show I care and I am really getting from point A to B in a way a reader can understand.

One thing I find challenging is making my writing make sense. For example, if I am writing about bananas they are better than apple. I tend to go off topic or have my whole essay rebuttal. Another issue is if I have an 1 to write an essay, I do not start until 15-20 minutes in, it can be longer. I don't know why I do this, I am not even brainstorming or sorting out how I'm going to write the essay, I just sit there. I thought it was a bad habit however I realize iv'e been doing that for my whole life. I want to be able to break out of that and take lots of time to get my essays done in time so I can be able to review it before turning it in. 


Summary: Today in class we talked about how to write claims.

Reflection: Today I learned How to write a strong claim and the difference between a claim and a thesis. 




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