The learner profiles that I used when writing this essay was being knowledgeable and being a communicator. This is because I used what I learned and communicated those information to other people in the essay. A part of my essay was: “Solar energy uses the sun’s radiation. The sun is an energy source that is very powerful. The sun’s energy can be obtained by solar panels. One hour of the Sun’s energy can give one year of electricity globally (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018). The sun has an amount of 5 billion years of hydrogen fuel (CSIRO, 2018), meaning that people on earth still has 5 billion years of energy from the sun to use.”

Two things that I’m most proud of in my essay is the structure of it and the information that I included in the essay. Before I wrote the essay, I kind of laid out the layout of my essay. This helped me a lot when I was writing the essay. The information summary document also helped me when writing the essay because it helped me keep track of all the information and notes that I want to include. It helped me know which information would be best to be included in the essay. A part of my essay in which I used the information summary document to help me: “Solar energy can be used in different aspects, such as: making electricity and heating (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018). During the day time, the sun would come out and the solar panels would collect the light energy. The inverters of the solar energy system would transform the light energy into electrical energy. The electrical energy powers almost everything in the house. In the solar energy systems, the light energy would also be converted into thermal energy and helps heat the water in the house. Through the solar energy system, there wouldn’t be any greenhouse gas emitted to the air and wouldn’t cause the harm to the environment.”

Next time I write an essay I will try to have a stronger argument and use more vocabularies. I felt that my arguments could be stronger.I could improve this by adding more evidence or graphs that would support my argument. In my essay, I didn’t think that it had a lot of vocabularies. I could improve this by searching for more words that would help me communicate my ideas in a more advanced way. A part of my argument from the essay was: “Solar energy is a secure energy source (Shahan, 2018). The energy source comes from the sun and no one can buy the sun or destroy it, promising it to be a secure source of energy. With the use of fossil fuels, energy security is dropping. As the global population increases, the demand of energy also increase. People or countries can buy fossil fuels, resulting in conflict. If a country is larger, the people there would want to buy more fossil fuels with a greater amount of money. This makes the poorer countries in lack of energy source because they don’t have enough money to buy the fossil fuels (Globalissues.org, 2018). The demanding of fossil fuels makes people to find more oil, gas or coal, making global warming even more severe.”

The statement: “All forms of energy are related; using any energy resource has both positive and negative consequences” is true. All energy forms are related because plants makes light energy into chemical, then the chemical energy that we take in becomes kinetic energy and the kinetic energy would allow us to do other things. The energy is always going somewhere. Using any energy source can have both positive and negative consequences. In my research paper, I talked about both the positive and negative consequences of solar energy. I wrote: “Solar energy is a great solution to global warming because it is a renewable energy source (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018), a secure energy source (Shahan, 2018), can be used for different things (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018) and saves money for the society. However, there are some negatives about solar energy. Solar energy depends greatly on the weather (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018), needs a large, open space (Aster, 2018) and it indirectly contributes to the pollution (Greenmatch.co.uk, 2018).”