Reflective essay reply
Hi Xueqing Zhang,
I hope you are doing great and elegant at this difficult time. You have a great post concerning your reflective essay of weeks seven through week 12. First, I loved reading your essay since it has great flow and tone. I would like to appreciate that your personal experiences were relevant to the course outline. You have provided a well-structured essay with an introduction, body content, and an interesting conclusion, which is recommendable. Your essay has incorporated the most key concepts that we learned. Besides, your opening paragraph addresses the purpose of the assignment, your interpretations, and the topics you discuss in your essay. The use of your personal experience has composed the essay. It has communicated the content of your essay in the most efficient way. However, you have opened your essay with too general statements. Try to make them as close to the essay as possible.
You have correctly used the rhetorical questions in your essay, which is recommendable. Rhetorical questions make the reader of your essay be more active and encourage them to think about the subject in question from their own perspective. It is great since it made me more dynamic in your essay and was excited about reading it. Personally, as I came across them, I was overwhelmed by them that I was eager to find more of the answers, which enhanced my knowledge and experience. In your second paragraph, you ought to have pointed out some of the problems relating to the cultural assumptions about knowledge, value, and virtues. This would make the reader understand the problems that you meant. Besides, your citations in the second paragraph were incomplete. You should have included the page numbers or the years of publications of Nussbaum, Chinnery, Bai, Eisner, Apple, and Rasmussen’s works that you had used, as you have indicated in paragraph three.
The opening statement of your third paragraph actually predicts what you are going to entail in the paragraph. This is very great. You have indicated that the statements are your perspectives that the reader needs to do more research about them. You have correctly quoted and cited the works of your sources. However, you need to proofread your citations and to reference. For example, you ought to have written Apple (1993) instead of Applie (1993), which may lead to plagiarism. You have given appropriate examples in your essays, which gives more light to the essay.
Lastly, your referencing and citation are great. You have followed the APA format that the course outline directed us to use. However, in your fourth paragraph, you have given an insight that Nussbaum and Chinnery have disagreed on the fundamental aspects of learning but have not clearly indicated the disagreement. Generally, you have done a great reflection of the bi-units according to instructions given. Congratulations, and I wish you well in your endeavors.