ESSAY 1 REFLECTION

For this essay, I mostly struggled with expletive construction throughout my essay, so I worked on fixing those errors and improving the sentence structures. I use “there is/there are” a lot in my essays when I can use more active voice rather than passive or expletive. I also revised the essay’s title by adding the works of literature that I was comparing to the title in order to let the reader know what would be discussed. Until I took this class, I always thought that source citations had to go at the end of a sentence. But, taking this class, I learned that if I have a quote or paraphrase with my analysis or ideas immediately after, I can put the citation after the quote or paraphrase and continue on with my ideas. This method of citing in the middle of a sentence was something that was hard for me to do because I was very set on citing my sources at the end of a sentence as I was taught in all of my prior English classes. The idea of change was uncomfortable in a sense, and I thought that it would somehow some way count as plagiarism even though I was told it was okay. I also removed the italics in the block quote. I could not remember if block quotes were supposed to be in italics or regular font because my last Rhetoric class, my professor told me to make my block quotes in italics. Through this essay, I hope my audience will be able to sense the power of motherhood.