For the Javascript node exercise I decided to pull from two essays I wrote last year. One of them was an essay on self-reflection in fencing and the other essay was from my advanced standing proposal. As James Pennebaker mentioned in his TED talk, if we are writing to those who are above us, we’ll tend to use I more. Though both were mostly self-centered I wanted to see how much I used I before certain words in both essays. I decided to pull out how much I used ‘I’ and ‘my’ in both of these essays. ‘My’ showed up 13 times and ‘I’ showed up 24 times. ‘My’ was mainly followed by words in regards to my art, while ‘I’ came up mostly when I discussed what I was intending to do. In the fencing essay ‘I’ showed up 94 times and my showed up 46 times. ‘I’ came up when discussing what I did when describing those moments and when I was writing about ways I could improve. ‘My’ came up when reflecting on what fencing meant to me as a fencer and what it meant to me in my daily life.
I think both of these essays are good representations of how common self-reflection words are used when trying to discuss one’s own current situation and looking ahead at the future. I see it the most when I’m discussing parts of who I am and what makes me who I am.
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