Reflective Essay: Me As A Writer

This semester has been a whirlwind of information and learning. I feel that I have learned so much, about my classmates, my writing, and even the English language. However, I feel that I have learned the most about myself as a writer; what I’m good at, and proudest about, what I could improve on and challenges me, and just about my writing style in general. The essay that best reflects me as a writer is the argumentative essay that we recently finished because it accurately reflects what I am proudest about in my writing, what challenges me, and what I have improved on and learned throughout the class. One of the main reasons the argumentative essay best represents me as a writer is because it most accurately reflects what I am proudest about in my writing. For example, throughout the class I was told that my transitions were strong, and this essay features many strong transitions. For example, the first sentence of the second body paragraph says: “In addition to being inaccurate, animal testing is incredibly expensive, considerably more so than other methods”, which connects my first body paragraph about the inaccuracy of traditional animal testing to

Before this class, I had a lot of difficulty organizing my essays in a coherent manner. However, this essay is very organized; each of my main points has a paragraph devoted to itself and flows nicely with transitions in a logical manner. There are also a lot of little things I learned over the course of the semester that are reflected in my essay, like the proper placement of “only” and that a period goes outside of quotation marks. Despite being small, these things have really helped me improve my writing and myself as a writer. I feel much more confident when I’m writing now because of what I have learned, and I think my writing accurately reflects