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Andrew Barnes 2A **Reflection Paper ** I’ve learned a lot this year in English. I am more confident in my ability to write. I am better at punctuation. I have a ton of strengths and weaknesses; but, I have more strengths then weaknesses. There is a lot to English. Being meticulous and reviewing my work is the key to being a stronger student. Writing a persuasive essay is one of many necessities in English. Persuasive essays grab the reader’s attention. They provide an argument for and against a given subject matter. It is important to make the beginning of a story noticeable and to quickly catch the reader’s attention. It is a good idea to include statistics an essay to give the reader more information about the topic. Narrative essays are another type of essay that I learned to write in English. It gives you a chance to write about your opinion on a given topic. Trying to get the readers involved is one purpose of a Narrative essay. This type of essay also allows you to write about a personal experience. Narrative essays are all about expressing your opinion but you have to make it interesting for the reader as well. The Extended Metaphor poem was something new to me. We had to compare two unlike things and put it in a poem. It goes on throughout the poem and doesn’t stop. In our Extended Metaphor poem has a lot of different figures of speech in it also. We had to include two figures of speech such as, Imagery, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Simile, or Personification. Cover Letters is something I learned about for getting a job. It makes you stand out amongst the other people applying for the job. Writing a cover letter for a job show that you are professional and want that job more than other people do. Cover Letters is very important and will help me out a lot when looking for a job. Not many teens probably know what a cover letter even is so it is a deal breaker. Punctuation was something that I wasn’t very good at in the beginning of the year. I have gotten better since then though. I have used commas more then I used too. I learned that a semi colon is used to connect two phrases together in a sentence. Putting regular colons in places where a list of things is. I have learned so much since the beginning of the year and plan to keep learning more about English. It is such an important thing to learn and know about because it shows how educated you are. I’m looking forward to next year in English too. I’m getting used to all the new things I have learned and am picking up on new things a lot faster as well. This is only the beginning of my English experience as a student. up storys