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Yohei Sparks
Professor Moore
COMP 1302
1 May, 2017
In any profession, whether it is business related or a blue collar job, we all need to have
good communication skills. Writing an essay has the same idea as having a communication skill,
we all need to know how to write an essay on a professional level, one of them being when to
use the word I and when not to use it. Throughout the semester and this year as a whole, I have
Throughout the semester, Professor Moore has punched us in the face with knowledge
about never using the word I in our essays. Her reasoning was that it was not fire enough for
us to use it in any given situation in her class. However, there were times where she finally
surrendered and allowed us to use the word I in our Short Academic Response. In my Short
Academic Response number 2, I said Although there were plenty of other songs that I could
have analyzed but this was the only one that was within the appropriate line. This would not be
appropriate for an academic essay because putting the word I will automatically make your
paper bias and opinioned rather than simply distributing the facts and analyzing it.
There are ways to express your thoughts and analysis without using the word I. One of
the method is simply analyzing and giving inputs without using the word I. For example, In
the speech, President Reagan points out, But in the West today, we see a free world that has
achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the
even want of the most basic kindtoo little food (Lines 50-53). The Western side indeed had a
better technology because they had the support from the western world which had a better
technology than the east and also advanced quicker than eastern European nations. This
rhetorical analysis method was done as follows, first I quoted a line of a speech made by former
U.S. President Ronald Regan, and then I analyzed it by mentioning that the Western world had
greater advance in technology than the Warsaw Pact countries. It did take me eternity to
completely master this method of analysis and in my opinion, it was worth it with a capital W.
There will be many instances where we will be allowed to use the word I in a paper,
but like someone once told me You need to know the law to break the law. To make a paper
professional we cannot use the word I in papers as that would make it bias and unprofessional.
By learning to this, I have improved myself as a writer and doing this also saved my grade from
getting an zero or less on my essays that I have done for this class.