Unit 4 Reflection

I really had a hard time with this assignment because I couldn’t get it short and I couldn’t make it informal in the beginning. My argumentative essay was a struggle to not go over word count so shrinking it down to only 500 words was even harder. I have so much that I’d love to say about street art and Banksy himself so only writing a little bit about them both was so hard. I had to choose the information that to me was the most likely to draw a reader in and make them read the whole article and to me everything about this topic is important so it was a struggle. I’ve gotten so used to writing in formal settings only so I kept putting in the big words and long sentences that work really well for formal papers but not so much for an Op-Ed. I had to make it easy to read and easy to bring the reader in and that was hard because I’ve only written research papers and argumentative essays on this topic so making it informal for an Op-Ed was hard.