Reflection On My Essay Writing

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‘Reflection on my essay writing’

Before engaging in the essay writing, I used to be terrified of writing. This was because I

wouldn’t understand how well the various components of a good essay can be combined in an

essay to enable the writer to effectively communicate his/her ideas. My major point of worry was

how I would keep the audience involved hence paying their attention to my piece of witting from

the introduction to the conclusion. To me writing was complicated than making a speech since a

speech involved direct audience who the speaker can gauge their feelings. I took writing as a

difficult task since it involved indirect audience and ensuring I meet the demands of such indirect

audience (who I was not physically seeing) brought more confusion. Though the case, the

semester’s writing activities have really transformed my writing, I have gained enough of the

confidence that would be required to make an effective written piece. Through the various

learning experiences such as individual’s readings, peer reviews, author’s feedback and many

others, I have been able to interact with diverse knowledge sources which have made me much

better by removing the confusion and the negative picture I had with regard to writing.

The first area of my improvement is on the organization skills which I have gained

enabling me to able to develop an excellent structure for my essays. In my first essays, I was

struggling had to build an introduction that would not only be clear to the readers but also would

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cultivate their interest to read the whole of the rest of the article. My introduction thus appeared

ambiguous and was very general as from the feedback I would regularly obtain from my

Instructor. Through engaging in regular essay writing, this has really changed. This is evident in

my cause and effect essay where I was able to introduce the easy with a personal history of the

perception of the people with regard to the water they took ‘At home, people subconsciously

believe that the water they drink, wash clothes with and bathe in is clean’ (Kulhahay 1, par. 1)

. I was able to place the audience to the issue I was addressing by giving their general view on

how they treat water contamination which was the subject of my writing. In this easy I was able

to introduce the readers to the controversy that had me to write the paper i.e. both leaving the

water untreated and treating it is a challenge as in treating various harmful chemicals e.g.

chlorides and fluorides contaminates the water. Through such an introduction, readers are

captivated to follow through the paper and understand how well the controversy can be

eliminated. In this essay I also included a thesis statement which would give the audience my

position regarding the issue I was discussing.

The second area of improvement is on the use of the transitions. This was through the

words like however, despite, consequently, in addition etc which I regularly used in my

argumentative essay on the immigration. Such use of transitions enables the reader to

differentiate between the various viewpoints of the author making hence increased unity and

coherence. Further transitions enabled my audience to easily follow through the article as they

would connect one idea to the next identifying where was making new points and the previous

points were ending. It is through such excellent use of the transitions I was able to build up

arguments and also portray the other counter arguments with the same reasoning For example

illustrating that immigrants would easily for lottery application but on the other hand, they had to

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know the government’s history which would be difficult for them (Kulhahay 2, par. 1) . Such

would make the readers view both sides of the argument in the argumentative essay on

immigration. Lastly the transition enabled me appropriately make a summative conclusion for the

ideas I had developed through the essay. For example in my cause and effect essay, I was able to

summarize by generalizing that ‘any city or region in was a victim to unsafe water supplies

behind closed doors (3, par 1). Such use of the transitions throughout my essay was very

important in emphasizing my aim of the writing the essay which was to sensitize people of the

increased rates of water contamination made my essay easy for the readers to follow.

The third area of my improvement was the ability to select and use the right vocabulary to

explain different themes in my different essays I was writing. This has excellently enabled me to

communicate my ides more vividly with a high command of knowledge. The essay writing

experience has enabled me to understand on which vocabularies and which areas I should apply

them to bring out the ideas I wish to communicate. In the essay on the child labors i.e. Live free

and starve, I was able to use vocabularies to bring out clearly the effect of the child labor to their

health conditions ‘their ribs sticking out..’ , also ‘They trailed after us begging for a few

paise’(Divakaruni 2, par 2). Such use of vocabularies helped me bring out clearly the desperation

and disillusionment state the children were in. Secondly the use of the vocabularies enabled me

emphasize my points. In the same essay, I was able to emphasize the negative impact that the

children would bring back to their families after going back for the families didn’t have the

financial ability to cater for them ‘…..the extra weight that capsized the already raft of their

family finances’ (2, par. 3). Such enabled me to show my mastery of the subject I was arguing

out i.e. the effect of child labor to families.

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Though I have made such great improvement in the three areas, I still require improving

on my use of the passive voice. I find myself regularly using passive voice in many of my essays

which may lead to loss of interest from the audience. Through the use of active voice, I ensured

that the readers are able to identify with the message I communicated as they viewed me as part

of the ideas I was recommending in my article. In addition, an active voice makes it easy for the

author to communicate his/her ideas with easy, in a direct and clear way. Through the use of

passive voice in my essays, I found myself using unnecessary words which would make it hard

for my audience to follow through my ideas. Thus such areas require me to improve to gain

clarity and make my essays direct to the point. To help improve on this, I will increase my

reading to review many of my essays and the feedback given to the essays written by my fellow

course mates and other authors. I will be taking more time to plan my work to ensure I tailor the

message direct to the audience which eliminates the use of passive voice. In addition, I will be

taking more time to reflect on my essays and review them after writing to include the active voice

in the areas where such is necessary. In general the essay writing experience was great and has

transformed me to a great writer. Such helped eliminate the fears I had in writing and can now

easily communicate my ideas to the different audience.

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Work cited

Divakaruni Chitra .Live Free and Starve, 2017

Kulhahay Mayhew. Argument Essay on Immigration, 2017. P. 1-5.

Kulhahay Mayhew. Cause and Effect of Flint, Michigan’s Water, 2017 p.1-4

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