Ideas and Content
Throughout my Julius Caesar essay I had to find ways in order to show what characteristics best suited Brutus. In my essay I thought I did fairly well with using my ideas to make my essay sound good and make sense. I used my ideas and back them up with explanations in order to get the message across of how Brutus acted towards the people and Caesar. I knew what I was meant to write about, and that helped me get my message across, plus I was able to write a lot about the topic. Another thing that I did well was that I explained how my quotations related to the main topic. This was probably because I planned before the in class essay and I also understood the play extremely well. I believe I could have worked more on including interesting and relevant details to some of my assumptions about Brutus. This could have proved my point and could also bring my reader in. I should have focused mainly on writing the topic sentence or the beginning of my essay because that would have helped the reader understand completely what I was writing about.
Organization
The organization in my essay was quite well put together (I believe). I was able to begin with an interesting hook to grab my reader's attention and my body paragraphs closed with good summarizing and transition sentences. This got my reader into my essay and it made them want to read more. The transition sentences helped my essay flow and it made sure the reader didn't get lost. The organization of my essay was the thing that kept it all together and made sure it didn't fall apart and turn into a terrible essay. I could have improved on having good lead in's to both my paragraphs and quotations. I should have had some relation to the past paragraph and I could have had some form of context before all my quotations. Being able to add context to my quotations was hard because I didn't mark my quotations, so I wasn't able to discover what happened before.
Personal Growth
The difference between my Alchemist essay and my Julius Caesar essay was huge. I was way more prepared for my Julius Caesar essay than for my Alchemist essay. This was probably because I knew I wouldn't get much help and I needed to write it up by myself so I tried to do as much as I could at home. I thought that my explanations for my ideas in my Caesar essay had much more detail than the ones in the Alchemist essay. My organization in my Caesar essay was also better which kept the essay together and in my Alchemist essay I got away from the topic and started to talk about other things which didn't relate much to the topic. This gets the reader less interested and it can drop down your grade if the reader just wants to finish reading your essay.
SLR Reflection
Whenever I write my essays I believe that communicating effectively is the key to a well written essay. This is because you need to get your ideas across well to the reader so that they understand what your essay is about and so that they don't get tired of reading it earlier than they should. Without communicating effectively the reader will get lost during your essay. Communicating is the key to an essay because it keeps it together and it keeps the reader interested in what they are reading.
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