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Steve Chale
Professor Ditch
English 115
9 May 8, 2018
Reflection Essay
Through the semster writing in this class was challenging but in a good way as it helped
me improve my writing. This class helped my writing as I needed to use more evidence and use
certain things I would have not before such as more reliance on evidence and needing to research
as much. However, because of what the professor required from us it made us students find more
evidence to back arguments in our argumentative essays. This can be seen in the second essay
when we had to use outside sources to back our argument. In the second essay I had to use an
article by BBC called “Did the Blitz really unify Britain” which talks about World War II and
how it affected Britain which in result connected to my essay. These requirements for us too
write made it more challenging to write a paper because it asked more and to be smart with what
we use, such as using the evidence as even that will be question for credibility.
However, in the start finding and using the right grammar, evidence, and creating the
right argument was challenging as before I would not fully use the right grammar which in turn
would make my writing not very clear which would result in me not making the right argument.
Furthermore, the disorganization in my essays would make it hard to fully address the prompt
and it would make my argument weak and in turn it made my work weak with many plot holes.
In addition, in past essays there was a lack of evidence which made my argument have no
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credibility and weak but with Professor Ditch teaching and requirements for essays it made sure
To help address my issues in writing Professor Ditch teachings and guidelines for writing
an essay helped me improve my writing. Furthermore, visiting the LRC helped my writing
because of someone else revising my work and catching my mistakes helped me learn from my
mistakes. Such improvement can be seen in the grades received for my essay as my first grade
The skill that improved more in each essay was the use of evidence as I made sure to
check the source was credible and making sure to use it correctly in my essay. To make sure of
this I would look for connection between the source and my argument. An example is in my
essay Happiness in Guernsey” when I use a quote from the article “The Source of Happiness” in
the book Pursuing Happiness in which it talks about a person outlook. This connects to my essay
as I wrote about the environment the characters of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society lived in. This helped my argument of how the environment the characters lived in World
War II and how it affected them. This showed how using the right evidence could make my
Overall, I feel as my writing has improved greatly as I felt my writing before felt like the
bare bones of an essay while currently my writing is now full, and I am able to defend my
argument. In addition, the help received made me a better writer as I know what to do when
needing to defend my writing. My writing has improved greatly from my first essay to my
second essay which is shown with the grade received as also I am more confident in my writing