For this exercise, I used the first writing prompt that we did that was about metaphors.  I found that I use “for example” and “for instance” regularly because these phrases appear in almost every paragraph that I have written for this particular piece. Also, when I am writing for other classes like biology, when we have to write lab reports these phrases are almost always in my writing. In one of my paragraphs from this last essay we wrote on metaphors, I found that I used the word “also”, and pointer words like “this”, often to connect my thoughts together as well. I feel that I use these specific phrases often because they help me get my point across simply and allow me to supply examples to support my claims in an easy way. One of the passages that were hard to follow in my essay was the concluding paragraph. It feels like I didn’t thoroughly connect my thoughts and that they are just random sentences placed next to each other. To make it easier to read, instead of mentioning the word “metaphor” in almost every sentence, I could have made it easier to read by relating the sentences to each other and building off of them to construct a better conclusion. Also, adding words like “therefore” or more pointer words like “these” and “this” could have helped connect the concepts that were discussed better.