Diagnostic Reflection

After reading my diagnostic essay, it made me realize how important outside resources are in order to strengthen my argument. I honestly don’t think that my diagnostic was necessarily bad, but rather not as strong as it could have been to support my thesis since I did not incorporate outside resources. I guess after reflecting on strengths and weaknesses of the diagnostic and comparing it to writing the final research paper, I realized that finding resources that are reliable and worth citing help strengthen my argument.

For my diagnostic, I relied on a few outside resources from websites as well as my own memory. But without any hardcore evidence supporting what I included in the essay, I realized that while reading the essay, it may have easily just been information pulled out of no where.

As far as improvement goes, I feel like I learned a lot about how to write a stronger essay but I still have a lot of room to improve even more. I still feel as though the essays I wrote following the diagnostic were not as strong as they could have been, probably due to lack of including strong supporting evidence from outside resources.

I am hoping that after writing my research paper and after getting back the critiques from my first draft, I learn more about what I lack in my essay and what are my strengths in order to write better essays in the future.