Reflection on writing WA2

The process of writing of WA2 is not easy due to some reasons. The reasons are the convincingness of my argument to support my thesis statement; the requirement of using very recently published sources as references for writing the essay; and most importantly the grammatical and sentence structuring issues.

Firstly, since I was writing on the promotion of very-high-temperature-reactor (VHTR) as the next generation nuclear reactor, I was not totally sure whether the readers will be totally convinced by my argument and support using the VHTR. This is because, as writers are unable to lift whole sentences exactly from any source, the actual fundamental explanation from the source may be lost through the explanation by their own words. Also, I may not have rebutted the counter-arguments as sufficiently due to time constraints and the rarity of matching sources to use.

Secondly, the requirement of using very recently published sources as references for writing the essay greatly reduces the quantity of matching sources to use. Although some sources may be dated five or six years ago, like the article “Nuclear power’s new dawn” by Delcan Butler, some information in it may be still useful up to the present time. However, the fact of being a year 2004 article, writing the essay based on those information may still raise doubts on whether it is really up-to-date. To reduce the doubts, I encouraged myself not to use too much of information from these article greatly.

Last but not least, I have carelessly made some grammatical mistakes occasionally throughout the whole essay and my drafts consist of lots of run-on sentences and issues on subject-verb agreement and parallelism as well. However with the help of my module tutor, I am able to reduce such errors to the minimum for my final WA2 essay.