...skills up. My skills have gotten better in the aspect of morale, explaining, and focus. My last writing class was over a year ago and that was more of a research paper more than an actual focus on my writing skills. What I mean by that is I wasn’t just writing down just an explanation from a book but instead I was using this chance to experience a different in writing assignments. My first week back in writing wasn’t my best week due to my lack in practicing my skills but with just a week or two it came back to me. I started to remember to write out the end plan instead of writing what just comes to mind; which usually got me lost halfway through. The class was also a...
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...in my synthesis essay and social justice speech. The thesis of my synthesis essay states “Sexual assault is an issue that is constantly faced in the workplace, at school, on the streets and even in the comfort of home. The society as a whole must not accept this as normal and must take actions towards fixing this problem; but, in order for this to happen, they must...
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...quote this early in the essay? Explain (1)I feel that Emerson’s quote “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to its own string,” Is implying, whatever you set your mind too you can accomplish. “Every heart vibrates to its own Iron string,” Is implying that everyone is different; we go about doing things in different ways, but it doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. (2) I feel he placed this quote so early in the essay because; he wanted to attract the reader’s attention with such a unique passage. He tried grabbing their attention, early in the passage. 2. In paragraph 4, Emerson says, “it is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own” (as cited in Langan, 2014). What does he mean by this quote? What is his purpose in making this statement? Explain. (1) “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion”, basically it’s saying that it is easy for other people to justify your life, doing what’s good in the eyes of society. Letting what other people think, affect the way you live your life. “It’s is easy in solitude to live after our own,” Is saying to live in solitude, you can easily live, doing the things that you want to do. (2) To shed light on the situation, of people caring, what other people think. Live by your own path; don’t let people influence what you do. It would be easy living in both situation, but living for your own self-interest, would be easier. 4. At the end of the essay, Gregory shifts his focus...
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...Dr. Syrjanen, I must admit, I have enjoyed every aspect of EH 1010. The information for each unit was very informative. Also, looking and listening to your feedback on various videos throughout the units explaining the lesson in depth was remarkable. However, Dr. Syrjanen, one of the questioned you asked was what do I feel was my best essay in EH 1010. According to my grade and your feedback thus far, it would most definitely be the comparative essay. Although each essay has a significate meaning and they were all written from my experience on each topic, this made my writing process more gratifying. Additionally, even though I had some knowledge of each subject before starting my writing process, this also assisted me in gathering the...
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...Writing Essays 1. Getting started The worst part about writing an essay can be starting the process. Before you rush into doing a pile of reading, you need to be very clear what your essay is about and what you are actually being asked to do. Typical essay questions: a) How do organizations typically manage stress? Critically evaluate the evidence for the effectiveness of stress management. b) Critically assess the extent to which a Conceptual Framework may guide the accounting standard-setting process. c) Identify and analyse significant developments in technology impacting on IMC. Discuss how such developments might affect international marketers and notions of the audience. The important thing to do when you approach an essay is carefully unpacking the essay question. For example, in question (a) above, you are being asked to do two things. First, to describe how organizations manage stress, and then to examine the evidence regarding the effectiveness of stress management. The first part of the essay, therefore, will be fairly descriptive, and you will be looking to read books and journal articles that discuss the ways that organizations manage stress. Don’t rely too heavily on one book or one particular journal article. Try to read as widely possible and make notes as you do so (see handout on reading and note-taking). The second part of the essay is rather more difficult, and it is here that many students fall down and lose marks. The key...
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...explain how things work or it can give the directions to accomplish any task given. One wants to assume that ones audience will be able to follow the directions given to them in ones writing. The essay will also have to be clear so the reader will not get lost. Writers have to specify the materials that ones own readers will need so that they can be ready before starting the process. Making extra comments in the essay will help the audience visualize the process. One also needs to include what to not do like caution the readers. Kahn uses the rhetorical appeals, her story is also in process writing, and lastly she created a multimodal essay. Kahns’ purpose of “Stripped for Parts” was informative, because Kahn is explaining the process of an organ transplant happening in front of her eyes. Kahn uses the ethos appeal as in this example, “Someday, I’m convinced, transporting organs in coolers will seem as strange and outdated as putting a patient in an iron lung. I get on the plane with the heart and the kidneys”. She uses these sentences to show credibility to herself. Kahn also uses the pathos appeal in her essay saying, “To me, he looks fine. His face...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...student has to write an essay. I learned this situation when I decided to come in the US for education. Before I come to the US, I had to take a preparation course for English in Turkey. That’s why my writing history started like that spontaneously. I really don’t like to write as my personality; however, this is a necessity for enhancing the ability to write an essay. Particularly, academic writing is the most important part of the studying in university, and my earlier writing experience is related just academic writing which is some type of essay such as, process essay, cause and effect essay and compare-contrast essay. One of the types of essay that I wrote first is process essay. That was really important experience because I had never written this type of essay. A process essay explains a process by either defining it, explaining the steps for completing the process oneself or by showing how a thing works. My process topic was “Things to Do in Case of Hurricane”. I explained the processes such as before the hurricane, during the hurricane and after the hurricane. The second type of the essay that I dealt is the cause and effect essay. That was one of the useful types of the essay because everybody can learn...
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...While writing this rhetorical analysis essay I have gained a significant amount of confidence in my rhetorical analysis writing ability. The main reason that I felt more confident was the experience I had from the Chipped Beef essay. I was able to go back and learn from my mistakes on that essay and correct those. That allowed me to be more confident in my writing ability and write a essay without questioning myself and knowing that I knew the correct way to do it. Many areas contributed to my success in this essay, but my most successful area in this essay was the ability to provide quality examples and to have strong analysis of those examples and how they relate to my thesis statement. In my opinion the main reasons I was able to find such successes in this area was because I knew what I did...
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...Dakota Stephens Professor Baker English 1301 9/13/13 Our Generation on Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking Reading and writing are things that I am very well at. The difference is, I’m stronger in my writing skills than my reading skills. The reason for this is that when I’m writing I get so into my words and imagination to where my hand with the magical pencil does the talking. My skills in reading only depend on one thing, if it catches my attention or not. Stories have to get me involved with the story somehow in order for me to get interest. If it’s not catching my attention, I’m not reading it. But most importantly, critical thinking is what ties reading and writing together. I am very picky about the books and articles I read. Stories for me have to have a mystery or even sometimes a sappy love story. Of course I’m going to love romantic books because I’m a girl, right? Yet again, some love stories bore the living hell out of me because it’s a “typical” love story. Reading books just all depends on how the author grabs his reader’s attention and how he plays the story throughout the book. When I find a book that I’m interested in, I will read the entire novel. Or even something that is scary will keep hooked on the story. Scary stories are my favorites because the story just keeps my suspense in play. Celebrity gossip is definitely something that I get into reading. There is always something new with these celebrities. Since these celebrities are well...
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...Throughout my life, writing was always a challenging subject to me. Although I may not be able to write as well as others, I have enhanced my writing skills. As I was assigned to write a great amount of essays in this English course, I realized that my writing has improved immensely. This course has taught me how to write various types of essays, for example, rhetorical analysis, review, report, and reader responses. Every essay has different requirements and different components to include. By using these skills to compose an essay, I am capable of improving my writing and noticing my strengths and weaknesses. Every year, my writing skills improve little by little due to the amount of practice from writing essays. In every essay, there was...
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... * Does each paragraph have an effective closing that reinforces the main point? * Is the essay coherent? Does it flow from beginning to end? * Is the order of the support logical and effective? * Does the essay provide strong evidence to support any opinions? * Does the essay reflect on the evidence and explain its importance? * Does the essay use strong transitions between sentences and between paragraphs? When it comes to revising your essay there are key questions that you want to ask yourself and make sure that they are answered. You want to make sure that the topic sentence of each paragraph addresses your thesis statement; such as different types of weight loss methods, each paragraphs’ topic sentence should be a different method. You want to make sure that each paragraph has an effective closing statement that reinforces that main point of the essay; like saying that a specific method will help to contribute to the weight loss. When writing an essay you want to make sure that you grab your readers’ attention and keep it throughout the entire paper. You do not want to talk about how a banana is yellow, then say how high the ball can bounce, then back to describing the banana for example. To keep your readers’ attention it is important to make sure you keep your details in order like you would need a cooking recipe to do. People who read your essay are going to have their own opinions about the topic you are writing about. You want to be sure...
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...I have always had a grasp on this concept, but for most essays I have writing in my life; the intended audience was always the instructor. Therefore, coming into this class I lacked experience when it came to writing to other audiences and properly constructing my paper for them. The problem paper gave me a chance to do that. There were a few times that I lost sight of the audience throughout the paper. Professor Kissinger said I had good moments of audience awareness and community oriented appeals. This gave me confidence that I was heading in the right direction, but it told me there is still lots of room for improvement. My goal is to have good audience awareness throughout the essay not just moments. Knowing and understanding your audience is important in writing and if you lose sight of it your writing loses its effectiveness. With my community oriented appeals I was also able to tie in some political rhetoric along in my essay, by explaining the consequences if the problem was not fixed. Even though it would have been easier for me to go with assignment 1 for my portfolio I feel like my problem paper help me grow more out of the two...
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...10 mistakes to avoid in essay writing 1. Using colloquial, informal/slang, for example, ‘can’t’/’won’t, or using the ‘I’ form too often. Make sure that you use correct English and proof-read your essay through before submission (using a spell-check facility if necessary). 2. Not reading academic sources widely enough to inform your essay and support your points, or using websites too often at the expense of more academic material. Please make sure that all of the sources you use are referenced in the text and at the end. 3. Not answering directly the essay question or only partially answering it. 4. Using subheadings and bullet points and diagrams which disrupt the flow. 5. Making unsupported, very general statements, such as ‘Many CEOs suffer from stress’. Instead you should use research/literature sources to support your statements and give specific, detailed examples. 6. Not including the full title and page numbers on your essay. 7. Using very long quotations or using them inappropriately . They should be used as a starting point for discussion, or as an illustration, because they encapsulate the points you are making well. Please remember always to give the page numbers of sources when you use quotations/direct words. 8. Having no clear structure/development of thought and not explaining any structure to the reader in the introduction. This is why an essay plan is so important. 9. Starting each paragraph with very repetitive phrases, e.g., ‘My next point...
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...My essay provides a clear and thorough refutation of Vliet’s arguments that follow the specific “defend the status quo” refutation strategy. Throughout my argument I used specific strategies that helped defend the current policy. I believe that my essay clearly refutes Vliet’s argument by providing counter examples from reliable sources to help counter her claims. Another strategy that I used in my essay was the identification of logical fallacies that Vliet stated in her argument. While searching for sources I searched for credible sources that provided reliable facts and evidence. I tried to locate sources that were void of any biases. Also, I did a thorough job explaining why the current policy needs to stay as is and not be changed, due...
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