At the beginning of this semester, I thought to myself a few times that this would be just another English class that we read some books and write a response to how we think that book compares to our everyday lives. That is the easy route for English nowadays, assign a reading prompt, discuss it in class, write an essay. Simple, streamlined, efficient. For this course, however, I was slightly surprised just how we fit into the class over the past few months. We explored multiple topics of importance when it comes effectively communicating through an essay, and not just making a statement about a passage from a book no one has heard of. We focused heavily on something that we all use in our everyday lives, technology, and side effects that come along side of it. For each essay, we performed a pretty important step in groups of other writers, the peer review. This was an impactful final stage of each essay that allowed the original writer to see mistakes or praise from the viewpoint of someone who is also in the same boat of possibly being nervous that their work is not up to par, or someone who writes with ease and was able to find many good and bad things about the essay. From my original paper, it was very obvious where my background was from. I have been a part of some lab research teams for the past few years, so scientific writing was still very fresh on my mind. Integrating the information we collect is a key step to the success of the essay. If an essay has weak topics or data, then there is no solidified argument that could make it relevant and it would be even more difficult to propose further ideas in all information collected was hand selected, properly formatted and designated to the original owner, then and only then will you have your argument to build off of.

Some folks may not know the difference of why they need to be written the way they are, sometimes I also wonder why, but essentially, there are no I statements. I think this, and I conclude that, it can be seen where I did this part. Nope, if you are a part of a research team, it should be a collective. The team used this approach or writing about another person and the approaches taken by them. At the same time, you have to be wary of who you are talking about, the biggest theme is what you are talking about. A scientific paper is not just what you and your team found, but scientific writing has become a mass collection of resources all talking about the same items or topics, and your job as the writer is to pick and place certain bits of information and place them side by side to your findings. This style of writing will show the reader a direct path to any deviations or differences you may have found in your research. This was a challenge for me at the beginning of this semester. I had to move away from something I have been doing for a while and begin to create a narrative that shows comparison without being too heavily involved in any specific side that is being written about. Not having too many I’s, but making sure you own input is sufficient, accurate, and relatable to make a solid defense of your work. I may not be the best or most relatable writer, but there were definitely some improvements over the last few weeks.