12 December 2021

HR: None

Every piece of writing requires an author to alter his approach, and thus to reflect on this change. This is, after all, what the subject essay for this reflection was about; it is an outlier when compared to my works, as it was written in a way unlike any other. I began the making of this essay by pasting my reflections from the three others I wrote in chronological order; this allowed me to see how I responded to each and ended up constituting most of the final product. The first body paragraph revolved around the first assignment: a narrative of our literary development over time, in which I detailed how my upbringing affected how I write now. This was followed by the hot wash of the essay about the comparison of discourse communities. Last, but certainly not least, was the paper that traced a secondary article (or in my case two) to a source paper, detailing how different authors used facts in contrasting ways. With the whole paper being a lump sum reflective essay, it was not difficult to form an introduction and conclusion with a constant line of reasoning throughout. In the typical assigned essay, I begin by analyzing the prompt. It is after doing this that an idea for the topic emerges, often with little to no deep thinking necessary; with a subject in mind, I just fill a paper with thoughts that follow some line of logic. This process was far different in the case of the fourth essay, as it was built more on older works, and therefore did not require much originality of thought on my part. In writing it, I did not learn much about a shift in how I develop my essays or notice any change in strategy; contrarily, that remained very static, and instead this piece put into perspective how different prompt types affect the kind of paper my mind works to produce.