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Reflective Essay 2

Lidieth Gutierrez reflects on lessons learned from writing two essays. For the first essay, she improved her thesis statement but still included unnecessary personal stories. Her second essay had a clearer, more focused thesis without personal anecdotes. She also learned to perform a visual analysis by paying close attention to details, symbols, and the creator's purpose in the Edward Scissorhands movie poster. Feedback from her professor and peers helped strengthen her writing by pointing out weaknesses and structure. While challenging, writing the second essay improved Gutierrez's skills and confidence in analyzing different topics and styles.

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Reflective Essay 2

Lidieth Gutierrez reflects on lessons learned from writing two essays. For the first essay, she improved her thesis statement but still included unnecessary personal stories. Her second essay had a clearer, more focused thesis without personal anecdotes. She also learned to perform a visual analysis by paying close attention to details, symbols, and the creator's purpose in the Edward Scissorhands movie poster. Feedback from her professor and peers helped strengthen her writing by pointing out weaknesses and structure. While challenging, writing the second essay improved Gutierrez's skills and confidence in analyzing different topics and styles.

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Lidieth Gutierrez

English 1301-180

Julie Baker

October 22, 2023

Reflection Essay

Writing is an evolving process; each essay is an opportunity to learn and achieve new things. Some

lessons learned while writing Essay 1 influenced me to improve my writing skills and helped me identify

which writing techniques were appropriate for Essay 2. Additionally, the feedback from my instructor

and peers pointed out my strengths and weaknesses to achieve a better version of Essay 2.

One of the key elements I learned when writing Essay 1 is the importance of writing a solid thesis

statement, not only writing the main idea but directing the reader as if it were a map of where we are

going. In Essay 2, I applied what I learned to make a clear and concise thesis, guiding everything I wrote.

Unlike Essay 1, the Thesis in Essay 2 was more detailed and straight to the point, engaging the reader to

read more.

Essay 1 primary purpose is to inform the audience about the elements and testimonies of its vendors

that the farmers market in Laredo uses to attract their audience. However, in Essay 2, which was a visual

analysis of the Edward Scissorhands movie poster and their creators' purpose, personal stories did not

fit. Essay 2 needed a more severe and straightforward tone without personal stories.

Performing a visual analysis on the Edward Scissorhands movie poster taught me how visuals, like

pictures or designs, can communicate a lot with just the principles of design, like color, contrast, and
symbolism in their composition. Visual analysis helped me to pay more attention to little details in an

image and appreciate it better. It can help me in my Art major courses, like art history, where it will give

me a better understanding of the artist's purpose in each piece of art they created. In the future, I can

use this knowledge to express my ideas and attract an audience when creating my art. However, visually

analyzing is less helpful in classes like literature and math, where we mainly look at written words or

problems.

Mrs Baker and my classmates read my Essay 2 draft and kindly gave me feedback, pointing out my

weaknesses, like grammar mistakes and how to properly cite my source, and also receiving some tips

that helped to improve the structure of my essay, making it stronger and more detailed.

The most challenging part of this second essay was seeing beyond the obvious in the image; It needed a

careful eye for details. On the good side, I communicated my thoughts clearly, and I noticed an

improvement in how I structured my paragraphs in this second essay.

My view of myself as a writer changed with this essay. I see an improvement gradually and feel more

confident writing different themes and styles. My goal as a writer is to improve my vocabulary and

grammar. I am looking forward to my writing journey to learn more and improve. Meanwhile, I will keep

putting effort into my writing, using what I have learned and the feedback on both essays that my

professor and peers gave to keep improving and better communicate and express my ideas to the

audience.

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