Process Writing Showcase
1 / "This I Believe" Essay
Written originally my sophomore year, this is probably the only essay a teacher's ever complimented me on. It was so good, in fact, that I submitted it again my junior year, 'cause if my English teacher can recycle assignments I see no fault in recycling solutions.
2 / My Personal Statement Essay
This one's pretty personal to me. Not going to lie, I didn't feel great about this essay when I first started writing it- you see all these people online talking about how they wrote about "how they hate the letter s" or "how they love the color pink" or some other "profound" metaphor ad nauseam, but honestly? That's just not me, not my kinda writing. Not to say I didn't throw an overarching theme in there to spice it up, but you can see I didn't go for Hemingway here.
3 / Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis Essay
Now, if I'm being honest, I wasn't the hugest fan of Metamorphosis- the book is great, don't get me wrong, but the whole time it just felt like it was kinda insisting on itself- like, wow, your main character turns into a giant insect and his whole family start to hate him? Kinda on the nose, no? I dunno. Anyways, here's the essay I wrote on it.
This was my first attempt at an expository essay since my Biology 3 professor made me write a five-page summary on his cancer research publications (very boring). JPL was much more interesting to read up on, and I hope that's reflected in this essay.
We wrote this "formal" reflection letter after the JPL invention challenge qualifiers. This was mostly comprised things we liked/disliked about the project, work habits, teammates' work habits, etc. Not going to lie, I didn't have the biggest blast writing this essay, but I think I summed up my feelings about the JPL project pretty well. Maybe.
This one's pretty basic, just a couple hundred words on whether or not you believe artificial intelligence is useful for humanity, that is, if its benefits outweigh any possible risks. Personally? I think it's purely beneficial, but read the essay and see if you agree.
Another simple but interesting essay- in this one, we had to choose a Supreme Court case which impacted the civil rights of some marginalized group in US history. I chose a pretty well-known one-- Brown v. Board, which ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional. I then delved a bit deeper into the ramifications of the case and how it pertains to our current-day society.