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Itzel Jimenez

Dr. Christopher Wielgos

College Writing II

19 February 2019

Reflection Letter on Project 1

The overall progress of my paper is slowly improving. About my piece of writing, I was

motivated into writing my literary analysis synthesis because I am majoring in secondary

education. Also, I remember struggling in my math classes as a high schooler because I was in a

classroom with at least 30 people on average and it would frustrate teachers whenever someone

asked a question. I also have enjoyed working with students who struggle on the knowledge of

mathematics and the French and Spanish languages. The purpose of my writing is to evaluate on

the reliability of my two articles I found in the library database by the portraying of a variety of

data that depicts the differences of credibility. From this point, I want to inform the many

educators and educational developer that there should be less than 30 students within a

classroom. The reason is that there are many negative consequences for the student’s learning in

a crowded classroom in America. For my writing processes and strategies, I developed on my

transition phrases as well as indicating my evidence in a paraphrased form. From paraphrasing, I

felt like I understood my two articles better since I was able to reword the evidence pulled from

the articles instead of just splatting random quotes and proceed to the next quote. The

paraphrasing was a great process to grasp thanks to They Say/ I Say. I mostly used a lot of ethos

into my paper since I was attempting to prove statistically that having more than 30 or 40

students in a classroom can be a challenge. For example, from Sandy Cutshall’s, Is Smaller

Better, she claims that there are higher crime rates and drug usage in schools that have large class
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sizes than schools with small class sizes. I also sprinkled some pathos to remind the government

officials about their educational past as I portrayed some metaphors and analogies to clarify my

three criteria from both of the articles. An effective genre that would be appropriate for my paper

is just in essay format since it is just an evaluation of two articles mostly. My language is mostly

formal as possible because my audience are people who are mostly well-educated. Also, I was

presenting some scenarios that would connect to my criteria to allow better comprehension for

my audience. My grammar is overall okay, I visited the Writing Center once for this project and

it was helpful. The individual who helped me was Kaisa M-W and she helped me on citing my

sources in MLA format as well as explaining and further connecting my two articles better.

Outside of class, I would probably modify my assignment by transforming more into a proposal

since evaluating two articles sounds more of an assignment for an English class. However, it did

help my understanding about which sources are reliable or not based on the diverse content of

research and a balance of argument.