Reflective Essay

ERH-102

Maj. Garriott

Harrison Robinson

A Journey from Wrong to Right

By Harrison Robinson

  For me, writing has always been a subject that was a weakness. I always found writing to be a very hard subject for me to get a handle on, I have trouble understanding the writing process and all the technics used in ERH 102.  Coming into this semester I was not expecting ERH 102 to be as hard as it would turn out to be, for ERH 101 I had this bad habit of not being able to organize my thots for my arguments to support my thesis. Instead I would just state my thesis and write down all my ideas in the essay instead of organizing and clarifying, to help the reader. This is a bad habit that has carried over into ERH 102 is shown in both of my essays. However, with these latest papers in ERH I have been able to correct my mistakes and have come to understand what I have been doing wrong.  The other most notable problem that I have had is my grammar in my papers. This is mostly due to my dyslexia which I have had since I was a little kid, it most often affects the reader because they have a hard time understanding what I am saying in a certain sentence. It is a lot better than it used to be and has improved greatly this year especially since if affects my grade more with new teachers.

When I started ERH 102, we were give a prompt on arguing for a law that you politically were against and that we would spend most of the semester arguing about the law or topic that you choose.  The topic I choose was Background Checkson Criminals Applying for Jobs, a topic I felt like I knew a lot about and would be able to have interesting research. I approached my first paper like I did all my papers before it doing a lot of research on a topic and just throwing it into an essay with no flow or organization. Hoeing that the reader would be able to understand my train of thought, instead of me simplifying it so that anyone could understand the topic I was arguing.