Reflection

Today in class we discussed how to write our email etiquette essay. We went over an outline that went over the steps on how to go about doing so. This was very informative for the fact that I haven't been to school in about seven years and have not written anything since. I had forgotten many important steps in writing an essay such as the thesis statement. The thesis statement was something I always had trouble with during my high school years. I also had a lot of trouble just starting off the essay but the outline gave me a better veiw on how to go about both. The essay was to be in a email format. I have written many emails before but to my friends who really didn't care about the formating. In the email we are supposed to pretend that we are writing a professor about reconsidering a grade that was given to us. This is something that was very new to me because I have never written to a professor about anything. Each student in the class had to take turns reading two lines from the outline. I think this gave us a chance to ask the teacher about certain points we didn't understand. If questions didn't come up, the teacher would stop us anyway to go over topics she thought we would need closure on just to make sure we knew what was going on. It was difficult to comprehend that all these steps were nessessary to write something as simple as an email. Once we got more than halfway through the outline everything started to come together and make more sense. In the end I learned that all the points of the outline, although many, were and are very crucial to getting the point across to the person reading the email/essay.