Reflect on your experiences with essay writing. What aspects of writing essays do you find most engaging or challenging? Discuss your personal strengths as a writer as well as specific areas where you experience difficulty or would like to improve. Support your reflection with clear examples from your own writing experiences.

 Prompt Response: My experiences with essay writing were often horrible or just straight up bad because of the fact of the lack of preparedness for them and also because I only know on how to create a normal essay instead of an outstanding one. The things I find most engaging when writing essays is most likely the thesis or introductory paragraph in the essay since it's roughly easy to do compared to the body paragraph and confusion. The thing I find often most challenging when writing each and every single essay that I've done up till now will always be the conclusion paragraph due to the fact that even though I know how to start it, the question is what do I include in it if I'm just restarting what I addressed in my body paragraph's or the ideas in my thesis. Another challenge or difficulty I face is my body paragraph's because usually it's one sentence addressing the idea, then your evidence, and then a sentence or three explaining how it connects to your claim or main objective. But that way of writing feels too boring without spice, I want my writing to feel alive. Some personal strengths of mine is that I can talk a lot which helps when writing an essay, and also have a bit of creativity in me to create pieces of work if I put my mind into it. Some experiences that tie to this is when for a English class (I don't quite remember the name); However during that time I had written to what felt like my best essay yet using my own effort and brain back in 9th grade. The only flaws that it had was on grammar and on the refinement process of executing it which I often struggle with even if the idea is there, like creating poetry for example. 

Summary: Today in class we went over the structure of a literacy argumentative essay and then wrote a couple of claims on the book Wild on Cheryl Strayed's relationship with her mother. 

Reflection: Today I learned that to create good evidence, it often involves keeping it short and concise in one to two sentences which I didn't do before when creating essays. This impacted me by making me feel a sense of clarity as if my mind opened to new possibilities but also a bit down as I learned that sometimes the best evidence is not the longest one, but one that is short and meaningful. In the future I will use this to help me write my essay's better whether in class or in my writing.