1. Looking back on the past year, my best essays range from Revised Prose Timed Writing to my Hamlet Research essay. In addition to those two essays, my other best works include my Dystopian Novel Final Essay and Coffeehouse Essays. I chose these essays because I consider each one of them to be very distinct from each other. These essays perfectly exemplify my academic growth throughout the year.
Firstly, in my Revised Prose Essay titled, An Itch to Declare Disdain, I reflected on my original prose timed writing and fixed the errors I felt I had in my essay. Therefor, this essay represents the way I would edit and rewrite in the very beginning of the year. In this essay, I analyze the narrator’s attitude in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and argue that through the appeal to emotions and strong word choice emphasize the treatment of the soldiers in the Vietnam War. I think this essay exemplifies the skill of me utilizing basic figurative language. I relied on the most common figurative language…show more content… I believe my strongest timed writing had to have been my the prose passage. This timed writing always happened to be my strongest because I could always understand the prompt. The prompt relied on my interpretation of my passage, and the prose passages tended to always be easier to understand than the poetry passage. The open-ended response was not my strongest because we only practiced that once, thus, there was no chance for me to excel and practice with them. The prose timed writings were ones we tended to practice, thus I had the time to practice my writing process and execution of the prompt. However, my weakest timed writing was definitely the poetry passage. The poems were difficult to comprehend and write about, and I felt I always utilized the same rhetoric devices. My poetry timed writings were unorganized, unsophistication, and difficult to understand. Therefor, it will always be my weakest because it tended to score very low since they were
