Chapter
3
A lot stuck out to me
when I read chapter three. I learned about really how to make an essay. I
learned a lot about transitions. They gave some great examples to me. I was
surprised to learn that I haven’t been taught a lot of what I just learned in
chapter 3. I didn’t know that it’s not
usually appropriate to start an essay by saying “in this paper I will…” I just find it fascinating that this was
never taught me. It actually angers me in a way! I have spent all my middle
school and high school career learning how to make an "good written" essay and I can honestly
say that I am not good at it. The fact that a chapter in a book taught me more
than I have ever been taught by any teacher scares me. I’m looking back into my
past, and wondering what did I really learn. I feel like not only myself but my
peers around me should be worried as much as I am.
Since I am a student, it
is appropriate that I should give an educational response. There are a lot of
ways how to go about writing an essay. Writing a decent essay is definitely not
the easiest thing in the world to accomplish. Good at writing is something that
is not taught in a day nor can it be achieved in the same amount of time. So
personally, I think that the skills to writing an essay are very good to have
and if you have them you should be very proud. I think the most important part of
this reading was how to transition to a new paragraph properly. I think that a
lot of students have a hard time achieving this. Finding good transition words
and other methods of transitioning to a new idea of the same essay is not what
it’s cracked up to be. I think that when students learn about essay writing, the
teacher or professor should spend as much time on transitioning and making
every part of your essay as good as it can be. I think that in this day and
age, we lost that and I’d like to see it come back.
Preston Allen
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