Throughout this course, my professor had taught us various topics. Each new essay had something new being introduced and needed to make an essay, a good essay. For some topics, I struggled understanding how to use them at the right time, or when it’s necessary or how I could figure out how to make my essay, a good essay while adding everything that I needed to add. It was tough sometimes, but I made various drafts of my work to see if I included all the necessary topics into my essays.

        For our research essay, the students had to use an article or video that was taught in class or we had the option to pick our own research topic. In our spare time, the students had to do research regarding our topic and connect each evidence to our claim. We were taught how to linger to ideas, not any detail but the right ideas. It wasn’t just every minor detail, it was the one that made the reader wonder what if or ask questions. Tension was another very important technique taught to us. If there’s no tension in an article, story, or book, then the reader might not want to keep on reading because it doesn’t catch there attention, it loses it. It’s always best to catch the reader’s attention. For example, starting your introduction or first body paragraph with a story related to the topic of your essay. Everything your story had to connect to your overall essay. In addition, knowing when a source is a reliable source or an unreliable source. A research essay is based off reliable sources because it proves your essay is dependable. For my research essay, I chose to use a video called “The Dangers of the Internet” from The School of Life and demonstrate how the internet has a negative impact on society and what are some of the outcomes to that situation.

         For our analysis essay, the students used different parts of a story, or an satirical newspaper article and analyzed it. For instance, what the story was about, what caused something in the story to happen, what was going on in the story, why a person did a certain action, and etc. While analyzing the story, I learned that having humor in your writing can cause the reader to understand what you’re trying to put across but keep them entertained throughout the process. In addition, how to realize there is a juxtaposition throughout writing. For my analysis essay, I decided to choose the satirical newspaper article called “The Onion” and base off one of their article called “Chipotle Employee Just Gave Guy In Front Of You More Rice,” I analyze the situation that was going on.

         For our personal essay, the students had to choose a life changing event that happened in some period of their life. We had to use everything we had learned throughout the whole semester and apply it to our essay. Some people like me had a harder time than others picking out something life changing. A topic that could be life changing doesn’t have to be something negative in your life, it could be something positive as well. In my situation, I wrote about my cousin I didn’t know until a few years ago and the background story to it.

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