Star Fish Rhetorical Analysis

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March 12, 2024

Dear Ms. Clark and Miss Groulx.

Today, in class, during our Starfish Retrospective activity, I colored my starfish in beautiful hues of scarlet, carmine, and vermilion, blending them to create a stunning, gradient appearance. More importantly, though, I assessed what I was struggling with in terms of synthesis essay writing.

The primary error that I noticed myself making was poor, lengthy planning of my essay. Though my plan wasn’t exactly terrible, it wasn’t great either. In an attempt to add nuance to my essay and potentially earn the sophistication point, I made my thesis statement conditional but difficult to argue for. In my jot outline for this essay, I organized the body paragraphs and main points but didn’t actually …show more content…
This element of my writing is very similar to a pattern that I detected back in the first trimester and made a goal to improve my writing during the second trimester of AP Lang. Previously, I had noticed that my commentary/analysis was not brief enough, yet did not thoroughly analyze the text and its rhetorical devices. I then made a goal in my trimester 1 reflection to write concise analyses that dig deeper into the text and flow well with smooth transitions. Now, in my timed essays, I do not write too much in my commentary. However, the commentary has other flaws. While writing my essay last Wednesday, I felt that I “blanked” multiple times while writing my commentary. Part of this feeling could be attributed to poor selection of evidence but, nevertheless, you could tell from my writing that I wasn’t exactly sure what to say and I felt that I was repeating some of the information that had already been stated in my evidence. Although my timed essays do not have too much commentary, I noticed that my social issues synthesis essay did. My first confirmation paragraph was well over a page long and, though well-written, was not concise and could have been shortened to be clearer. Though I have gotten closer to that goal, I still have yet to reach it and will be continuing to pursue the goal before the AP exam in
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