Identity Narrative Essay: Self Reflection

                Developing an identity narrative essay at first wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The most difficult part was thinking of an idea to write about. I had to think so much and looked back at memories that impacted me and shaped the person I am today, which took me time to do. After I thought of the idea, I immediately wrote it down, and all my thoughts flowed through my writing. Writing the essay was more easier after gathered all my thoughts and ideas. Most of the time, I have trouble finding a way to write an idea or thought efficiently. For example: I found it tough to find the write words to explain how my experience of learning English as a second language changed my life. I tried to engage with the audience through my writing. Also, even though writing the essay was easier after I collected my thoughts, I still had to revise and edit it a couple of times to improve my writing.

                    In every piece of writing, there is rhetorical situation to be stated. Identity narrative essay is the genre of the assignment. The purpose of this essay was to present a memory or experience that changed our perspective in life and to explore how we have shaped ourselves to the person that we are today. Also it helped us identify who we are as an individual and for the readers to understand how certain experiences changed us as a person. The essay target was general audience. Immigrant people will probably relate to the topic of the essay more, because they can relate on how certain experiences can change us, is because I wrote about my learning experience of English as a second language and how my experience has made me confident. The context of the essay was addressing our identities and personal development from a specific time, place, or person.

               The course learning outcomes is what we are supposed to learn and benefit from writing the assignment. One of them was to explore a variety of genres in reading and writing. In class we read two different types of article which helped me during writing my identity narrative essay. We also developed strategies for drafting, reading, and editing with our essays. We had a reading that explained how to make a thesis statement in an essay, and another in how to revise an essay. They were helpful because it gave me better outlook in how to make my essay much more organized. We also did peer review in class and by doing peer review where my group member helped me to fix my problem with my commas. They also helped me with my grammatical mistake. I think peer review was beneficial because by doing this we all abled to exchanged our essay, read each one of them, and edited grammatical mistake. In this process we gave our input on each other essays, criticism, and suggestion to improve our essays which help each of us to make our essay better. I also went to writing center where they helped me organizing my essay and fixing my grammar. I designed my essay by writing with a significant moment and experience, which improved the organization and structure of my essay.