This week we've been given exercises on Introductions and Conclusions, Unity and Coherence and more on the essay stucture. These exercises have been really helpful for my essay especially Unity and Coherence as I realise I needed to cut a lot out of my essay. The They Say/I Say templates are also very handy as they introduce me to useful terms and keywords such as "I think that X is mistaken because___." and "My discussion of X is in fact addressing the larger matter of ____."
However, I do agree that class sessions should be allocated for lessons on how to improve our essay instead of time given to work on our essays as I do not really make use of the time and I don't really do much work in the given time. Instead, I would prefer learning or doing more exercises as it engages me. The past few exercises has prove handy as it enhanced my comprehension towards writing an academic essay more. Peer assessment has also been extremely helpful as my classmates gave really good advices and tips to improvise the essay. Peer assessment helped to shape my essay almost completely.
I'm excited to see my work progress on the essay and I hope that the efforts will show in the end product where I can proudly say later that I've written a good essay on Malcolm X by next week.
OK. Points noted.
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