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My Most Descriptive Essay: I Lean On Me

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The Definition Essay had to be my most inexperienced essay I had ever written. This essay was the very first essay we ever did in intermediate composition. My skills as a writer were very minimal. Along with being one of the first essays we wrote in this class, it was also one of the hardest. Structuring paragraphs based on a top ten list of anything is very difficult. After writing this paper I had realized and mastered what is called as last minute work. I knew barely nothing about the paper I was doing and winged 90 percent of it. Although I waited until the last minute, I still do not think that it would of made a huge different to use my time writing this paper. It was a very confusing and difficult paper. I am still having problems …show more content…

It is hard to write an argument to something that you believe so strongly in. For example, I did racism within the movie Lean on Me and explained how bad it was and how discrimination is ruining our society. It was hard to describe a reason as to why people may think racism is a right thing to do, since I feel so strongly about it. I believe this was probably one of my worst essays written, not because that it was a hard essay to do, but rather because it made me oppose to my own viewpoint on a subject that makes a huge difference in this world today. While going through the struggles of creating an argumentative essay on this tough subject, I feel like I have nearly mastered it. Sure, I am definitely not the best but I can tell that there is always an opposing viewpoint of any subject, and once you find it, it will be easy to write about. One thing I need to improve is my word choice. You can’t expect to persuade someone with horrible word choice. It’s a lot better to sound professional and know exactly what you’re talking about. You must convince the read that you are right. I’m not someone who persuades someone to agree with my idea. I let them choose their own side, which is what makes these type of essays, one of my

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