Diego Torres

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Diego Torres
Melissa Castro
ENGL 1302 – 281
18 April 2024
Reflection Essay #3
Going into English Composition 2 felt like an entire new world of writing. A complete
change of prompts and organization was something I wasn’t ready for. For the first essay I
struggled a lot with time management and being able to find a bunch of peer reviewed sources
due to last semester we’d only need to look for one, analyze and write about it. The first essay
required 10 peer reviewed sources which took a while since my topic, which was nature vs.
Nurture, didn’t have many sources to begin with, so I had to resort to online sources. For the
second essay I didn’t struggle as much, it was only time consuming due to personal reasons but
overall, it went well. I figured out how to search up specific keywords to find more sources that
relate close to my topic. Everything that I learned from the previous essays I applied to the third
essay, there wasn’t anything left out because it was a learning experience throughout the whole
way.
As I’ve said before, the research and analysis on peer reviewed journals is a critical and
useful skill that I’ve acquired, so I can apply the same skills to my psychology and criminal
justice courses since they fall under the same umbrella. Another category that was incredibly
useful to gain some experience is the peer review workshop. In the work place it is common to
have a paper analyzed by another set of eyes, or by multiple people before it is published, so
going through this process I had each first draft reviewed by my partner, and she responded with
good constructive feedback which helped develop my second and final draft.
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The creation of an argument helped me improve my writing because throughout the
process I had to research both sides of the argument. After some time of developing my
knowledge upon both sides, I overcame writers’ block and wrote with a flow. For example, with
my main topic, Nature vs. Nurture, both sides are critical to be deeply researched to understand
what side I would agree on, and how I would enforce my facts and evidence. Following this
sequence would help me approach writing tasks in a much more efficient way since the
profession I want to enter is psychology, a part of the job would be writing tasks with supporting
and counter arguing ongoing debates.
One of my best writing strengths that was commented on are my introductions and
closing statements. I’ve never really liked writing a summary on what I’m going to write about
or what I already wrote, so instead I drift away with the words into a different world of deep
connection and hidden messages. For example, my closing statement on my third essay referred
to a hidden message at the end stating “...thus beginning with the guidance of a hand.” makes a
direct connection to the topic in hand, which is Nature vs. Nurture. A major writing weakness
that was brought up multiple times was staying on topic in the middle paragraphs. I’ve always
struggled with long essays, especially in the thousands to stay on topic since I would at times
start to ramble about different segments of the topic. These strengths and weaknesses stayed
consistent throughout the three essays, but over time it did get slightly better with an increase of
positive feedback for the third essay.
The most challenging aspect of the third essay was rolling it out on time. This was more
of a personal challenge to me since I have a heavy workload with two different jobs and a
business to run, I only had time to write out the introduction for the first draft so my partner can
have something to criticize. Later when I found time to start analyzing my sources to build a
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supporting argument to a side, I started to realize how many sections I had to bring up to build a
strong connection to the main topic. But at the end it all went smoothly since I finished analyzing
the sources, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about and how I was going to roll it out. At
the end of the day, it’s all about completing the aspect of research to make the writing portion
easier. It’s a skill I still need to develop but with all of the english classes I’ve taken throughout
my school career, it will slowly start coming together at the end when I start to pursue my
profession of psychology.

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ENGL 1302 – 281

The creation of an argument helped me improve my writing because throughout the

and counter arguing ongoing debates.

positive feedback for the third essay.

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