Reflective in Wr Essay Example

using a thesis statement.

By reading the thesis you will be able to point out that there are three subtopics that will make up the body of the paper: the long-term effects of physical abuse, psychological abuse, and emotional abuse of domestic violence towards women. Transitional paragraphs are used in this essay to maintain focus on the thesis and main topic. By creating a sentence outline, I was able to maintain focus and coherence for the cause and effect essay that is one-thousand words and has an ambitious thesis leading to great paragraph transitions, meeting outcome three.

This essay has a conclusion that briefly summarizes the significance of the paper including a call for action, a different approach I took in writing the concluding paragraph to give the reader something to think about. I demonstrated outcomes four, five, and six in the concept essay.

The introduction and conclusion paragraphs of my concept essay use in-text citations as supporting evidence to my writing. These citations have been strategically placed for better paragraph transition.

One citation in particular, “Ninety percent of all combat deaths occur on the battlefield before the casualty ever reaches a medical facility” (qtd. in Pooler “Principles” 3), was used to conclude my paper.

This was a critical piece of evidence in helping me summarize the importance of my concept essay, “Principles of TC3”, and meeting outcome four. I accomplished outcome five throughout all my assigned tasks with a variety of short and long sentence structure. I used complex sentences also in my assignments, but not as much. However, in class, sentence construction exercises were done to aid us in our writing assignments.

Demonstrate

editing skills to correct mechanical and grammatical errors in one’s own writing, outcome six, was present in all writing tasks to include global revisions. The first draft of my concept essay had to be completely re-written to meet the requirements for the assignment.

The second draft contained grammatical errors. Revising, editing, and rewriting this essay, led me to a final paper containing less than three errors. The execution of the remaining outcomes seven, eight, and nine were used in all my writing assignments.

All of my writing assignments exhibit outcomes seven and eight.

In outcome seven both essays establish awareness of audience, and show control of writing strategies to address those audiences and purposes. Take for example my concept essay. The audience would be Military Personnel; I use the word “soldier” instead of the word “you”. The reader does not know who “you” is; therefore I must use words that have clarification. These are more appropriate word choices for formal writing.

I demonstrated control of the writing process on all my assignments meeting outcome eight.

Generating ideas, I selected domestic violence as my topic then narrowed it down to domestic violence toward women, keeping the topic from being too broad. Writing ideas related to this topic helped narrow the paper down to specific subtopics that made the thesis easier to write. I then organized those ideas to make a logical progression that made sense. Next, I created a rough draft of my organization of ideas on paper, and had another student do the peer review.

The Peer review was a fresh perspective of another peer, to improve or correct any areas that may need clarification.