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This was my crytical Essay from my english class regarding a article i had rfead. i was given 225pts out of 225pts....

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Selena Castillo Instructor Leah Marable English 122 20 October 2019

Critical Analysis Essay After reading, and analyzing the article titled “Some Lessons from The Assembly Line” written by Andrew Braaksma I gathered that Andrew wanted his audience to know why his personal experiences of hard work taught him to value his education.The author explained how the transition from school to work was not easy for himself. Braaksma then continues his article by giving details about what he experienced at his factory job and explains how the lessons he learned from his job made him appreciate and be grateful to have an education. I believe the articles main claim of valuing education and work is well stated because the author compares the difficult transition between his factory job and college life, he describes his experiences at his factory job and what he has come to realize about work, and lastly he explains why the lessons he learned from his job taught him to value his education.

Body Paragraphs Andrew wrote about his personal transition from his last spring semester in college to his summer working in an automotive plant. He wrote “I thought about how different my life had been just a few weeks earlier. Then, I was writing an essay about French literature to complete my last exam of the spring semester at college. Now I stood in an automotive plant in Southwest Michigan, making subassemblies for a car manufacturer”. The author here is explaining how different his life was a few weeks ago in college to now having to work in a factory job for the

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summer. He explains that at his job he was making parts for a car manufacturer and how it was different to working on an essay in college. This shows that he wanted his readers to know what transitioning from school to work was like for himself, and how different it was for him. The author then gives detail about what his factory job was like he wrote “My time is spent stamping, cutting, welding, moving or assembling parts”. Here the author explains what he was responsible for doing at his job. He states that he was assembling parts by stamping, cutting and welding those parts. This shows what he had to do at his job and how doing this for twelve consecutive hours was tiring work but not like the work he had to do in college. By giving this detail I am able to see that he is explaining the differences of work he was taught. He was also shown how important education was to him, and not only him but others who have the opportunity of education. He says “ Factory life has shown me what my future might have been like had I never gone to college in the first place.'' Andrew Braaksma really persuades his audience that education is very important by saying “The things that factory work has taught me temporary Frankie-- how lucky I am to get an education, how to work hard, how easy it is to lose that work when you have it-- are by no means earth-shattering. everyone has to come to grips with them at some point. how and when I learned these lessons, however, has inspired me to make the most of my college years before I enter the real world for good”. By giving these two statements I able to see that the author learned about what the real world was like, he realized that some people who do not have education available to them what their life is like working in a factory. He realizes that he just does this job for the summer and some people without higher education is their career to work in the factories for a lifetime not just a summer.

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Conclusion After reading this article and evaluating what the author has written, I can now say that I better understand that the author was trying to show why he valued his education so much and how he had come to that realization of why his education mean so much to him. Summarizing and evaluating the article helped me better understand the real reason Andrew Braaksma wrote this article. I realized that even a little revision can help improve a person's writing. In my future Writing activities whether it is academic or professional I believe that summarizing, evaluating and revising my writing will overall help my audience better understand my writing, keep my audience entertained, and prove that I have learned certain writing techniques and skills.

Works Cited Braaksma, Andrew “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line” Newsweek. 09/12/2005, Vol.146 Issue 11, p17-17. 1p. 1Color Photograph...