In this blog post I express the several distresses of my AP essay. Before receiving feedback on this essay, I genuinely thought I did bad because I this was the most challenging essay I had written. Even if that was the case, I learned several skills and attempted to implement as many as I could into this essay. In this blog I touch on the aspects of the class that promoted growth. This reflection blog also helped start thinking about what I was going to include in my reflective essay. 

Zulema Cuevas

Prof. Fischer

Writing 39C

21 November 2015

Truthfully, this essay was a lot more difficult to organize than the HCP. This was mainly due to the fact that it was a lot of information to juggle around. Also, looking back I realize that I  was extremely repetitive in hopes that it would be able to communicate my arguments. My main struggle in the beginning of the writing process was convincing myself of the best solution. The research process was extensive and delayed my time from being able to attempt to perfect my essay. For this essay, i utilized the peer reviewing guideline a lot more. I do not think, I was able to peer review as many essays as I would have liked to but the few that I did  were beneficial. As a scholar, I believe that this essay was able to demonstrate that I am able to analyze my research to create an argument. However, I have yet to work on repetition.

At the beginning of the quarter my overall struggles were being able to collect and organize all of the research I made. Also I struggle on being able to make arguments rather than being descriptive. I believe that I have grown in my use of transition words. In my HCP I practice the use of them but became a lot more confident in incorporating them into my essay. This is mainly due to the outside of class reading. My greatest challenge in the writing process has definitely being able to organize all of the research I made and being able to make arguments out of this research. Because of this class, I was able to learn organization for research essays and being able to write introductions that do not just jump into the argument. This was achieved through going to office hours with the professor and reading other people’s essays. My favorite approach to an introduction paragraph was Connie’s because I was able to learn of an alternative approach to an introduction. A lot of times in this class I was taught to break the “guidelines” that I learned in my previous high school english classes. Having more than 1 paragraph as an introduction is one of them. Another time my “guideline” was challenged was when I began to start sentences with the word “because”.

The book Better changed my perspective on Doctors. My favorite thought of the book was when the author discussed the challenges of the social expectation of a doctor. I had never thought of the burden Doctors have that they must be perfect. If something happens to a patient, mistakes are not forgiven in these situations. Even if it is common knowledge that mistakes are part of human nature, I mean there are even mistakes that happen when translating our DNA, why should we punish a doctor for doing so. But realistically, this “perfection” is necessary when a doctor has a life on their hands.