While writing this recent compare and contrast essay I found it very difficult on how I was going to write in third person between two career fields that I was interested in. After contemplating, I figured out how to overcome this obstacle.
Since I chose to write my essay over two career fields that interested me, I decided to write about the two fields that I am currently studying. My major here at Wichita State University is dental hygiene and my minor is exercise science. Since I was extremely interested in talking about those two career paths, I thought writing this essay would have been fairly easy for me.
First of all, I found it extremely difficult to come up with a thesis statement that was arguable. I have never liked writing thesis statements because they were difficult for me to do. Practicing writing thesis statements in class helped, but not enough for this essay. After I had my introduction completed, I knew how the rest of my essay was going to flow. Since I was familiar with both topics, I had plenty of knowledge to compare and contrast the two.
Another area I found difficult while writing this essay was repetition. It is extremely difficult to find synonyms for the subject one. The word one can become very boring when used over and over throughout an academic essay. After thinking about other words to use during this essay, I came up with simple synonyms such as: the student, person, he or she. I think this strategy worked well for me because in my last narrative essay I was docked significant amount of points due to repetition even though I worked a significant amount of time and put in an abundance amount of effort towards that essay.
Today while we were work shopping with a partner I found it very helpful knowing there was another pair of eyes reading my essay. Tanner Gonzales was my partner and he pointed out some errors on my essay that I overlooked. He also told me to change some things in my essay that included revising a certain paragraph of mine because he thought the paragraph seemed weak and boring to read. I really appreciated his input and I will use his suggestions so I may receive a better grade this time around.
Thankfully I have people who are close to me who have English background experience that can revise my papers before I turn them in. The more people who read my essays, the more feedback I will receive. I think everyone should take into consideration to have their friends and family read their essays before submitting because you never know when someone else might catch an error throughout the paper that you may have missed.
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