...Proofreading and Editing is really important to make an essay strong and not difficult to understand. Proofreading always comes last when editing an essay to catch errors and to take of any unnecessary parts. Grammar and punctuations is really important when it comes to re reading an essay. It is very easy to make a silly mistake while typing in a hurry. At times when typing an essay it might sound correctly, but when re reading you catch many errors. I have learned that grammar and punctuation is really important not just for writing essays, but also for job applications, job resumes, job requirements, etc. You can avoid misunderstand your reader if the essay is confusing because of grammar mistakes. It is very easy to miss a mistake that...
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...myself as a pretty good writer when I am writing something I am interested in or intrigues me. Although it is not my favorite thing to do, when I get into what I am writing about I like to continue and prove my point. I think my strengths are having good points and proving them, and also having good transitions and having it flow really well. My weaknesses are probably that it takes me a while to gather my thoughts and put them on paper. Also I am never really into sitting down and having to write for long periods of time. What characterizes my writing I think is that I can get really into the topic and be able to prove it really well. When it is something I like and enjoy writing about I tend to get really emotional about it and I think that it shows in my writing. Also, I think I have great quotes and that I can explain them after and introduce them well. What I like best about my writing is that I can be a pretty good writer and get my point across without having to be super serious. I don’t like when peoples essays are really serious because it doesn't sound like it is coming from them and that it was copied from the internet. I think people should put their personality into it and I believe I do that really well. That is one of my favorite things about my writing because it can be hard to show who you are through your writing sometimes and it can come really easily to me. I think that my writing has changed over this semester. In the beginning I was really self conscious...
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...Woosh. Woosh. Woosh. The fan spins in my excessively hot room. Sweat is dripping off my forehead and I feel like I might pass outtttttttttttttttttttt. Sorry just did right there. Oh fuck! I have to finish this essay tonight and what do I have? Zero inspiration to write something that’s all about me. It seems really easy but damn, my writer’s block is really kicking in. The heat is killing me. I’m sitting in my my room with a refreshing glass of water with two ice cubes, not crushed ice, I hate that shit. I mean why would you want crushed? The pieces are so small you’ll just start to swallow ice. I also have some bad for you poisonous shit chips to my left, but they taste soooo good. I’m listening and singing to some of Coldplay’s great hits on my small little amp. The most notable songs that catch my attention at the moment are: Viva La Vida, Lovers In Japan and Strawberry Swing. Sometimes I try to imagine that there is a strawberry swing on a rolling green hill with the markings of a strawberry on the wood seat of the swing. I love to put myself in the image of what the singer is describing. The lyrics are paint on the canvas of my mind. Thinking about being in someone’s song comforts me. Songs help me get through writing this difficult essay that I wish I weren’t doing at the moment. Wow! I’m almost at two pages. Don’t quit now. Damn. Game of Thrones is on my television. I have to resist! It’s so cool though; I can’t. I get up and turn my television off in an upset manner....
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...Wobegon Holiday Dinner “ A Wobegon Holiday Dinner is an essay, that Garrison Keillor shared a memorable Thanksgiving that he had with his family. Which he recalled after calling his cousin “Duke” (Mary Ann) of an embarrassing episode that she had in thanks giving years ago, when she vomited at that thanksgiving. This essay takes back years ago, when I had to witnessed an event that is really similar which happened to Keillor’s cousin. We were taking dinner with my sister, we were eating grilled steak. But there’s was something really weird in her grilled steak, which had a big piece of fat on it , and my sister ate it , and she puked all over her plate. It was really disgusting, and disturbing. Since then I hate grilled steak. Questions 1-4 A Wobegon Holiday Dinner 1- Keillor clearly chose a particularly memorable Thanksgiving to share in this essay. What does the vomit episode contribute to the larger story about how his family celebrated Thanksgiving? The vomit episode 2- Celebrating holidays together is often viewed as one way communities – including families – stay strong. Yet, in what respects is Keillor’s essay a response to the assumption ‘ communities provide us with a sense of stability’ Keillor’s family Thanksgiving tradition were unchanging to promote a sense of stability. But his Thanksgiving tradition with his family aren’t always like it looks like to be. His essay brings out the worst of his family which not creates family...
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...sending texts to my children, I had always had a hard time collecting my thoughts and writing them down. I did not think I learned very much from this class, yet I was expecting it to be very difficult for me. Because of my origin, my native language is not English. When I speak, my thoughts usually come to me in Amharic, my native language. It used to be so challenging for me to speak English because I would mix up the two languages, but because of all the writing exercises and assignments, we’d had to do this semester, I don’t struggle with that anymore. ENG 101 completely changed the way I see the English language and writing. The first class I took at Shelton State was Basic English. Taking that class significantly improved the way I spoke English, but it did not do a lot to help my writing skills. This semester I signed up for ENG 101 hoping to improve my reading and writing skills. When I started the class, my expectations were pretty high. I wanted all A’s and to be a great writer, but most of...
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...needed! That’s what my tutors say about my essays. I’m not really sure what they mean.” “I thought I had written a really good assignment this time. I did so much reading and preparation for it, but my tutor’s feedback is ‘not enough argument.’ I’m not sure what to do now. I mean, I’m not an argumentative person - and I don’t really want to be.” One of the most important skills you will need to learn as a student, whatever your discipline is the ability to think critically and objectively about an issue and to present a well-constructed argument. Critical and analytical-thinking skills such as these will be essential to most aspects of your study, whether you are listening to lectures, contributing to seminars, or reading about your subject. Here, we will be focusing mainly on critical analysis for written work, as nothing gains or loses marks more for most student assignments than the quality of your written argument. Argument here doesn’t mean disagreement or unpleasantness. It simply means presenting a strong case to support a point of view. You don’t have to be an argumentative person to do this: on the contrary, good critical writing means using reasons and evidence to support your stand point. The first rule is: Identify the focus of the assignment Good critical analysis isn’t simply about writing. Before you start any assignment, you need to be clear about your focus. At university, this usually means thinking critically about the requirements of the essay, report, or of...
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... Dear Reader The past few years of my life was spent in search looking for the gateway of dreams, I was lost for a good bit of time not knowing what to do with my life and even more lost on how to go about finding it. I found the path to the gateway of dreams with the help of my brother and the rest of my family. Po Bronson says "We are all writing the story of our life. It's not a story of conquest. It's a story of discovery. Through trial and error, we learn what gifts we have to offer the world and are pushed to greater recognition about what we really need." And the question that follows this had me thinking about my future, that question was “What Should I Do with My Life?” I really know how important it is for the introduction to any paper is. I want to make my essay introduction good by giving the reader something to think about as they read my story for epic technology, I want the reader be able to connect there thinking to the following paragraph, giving the reader something to think about is also a good way to get there attention-maybe some my readers can connect to (Every one at some point gets lost looking for there dream and some never find it) and this will lead into my next paragraph. Starting with the title of my story (The journey For Epic Technology) I will tell the reader about my journey and how I ended up on it and the places it will take me. I will also be telling my readers what I should be doing with my life, and the gifts I have to offer the...
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...Charlotte Evans My name is Charlotte Evans I am thirty-two years old. I am a mother of two beautiful girls that are six and seven years old. They are my inspiration for going to get my G.E.D. and go on to college. I am also holding up to a promise that I made. When I younger my parents moved us to Jacksonville, Florida this was a big change for me. I had a lot of bad things go on, things that no child should have to go through. So in result of that I was taken out of public school and was homeschooled. I never really had a teacher. I was home by myself and had no one to teach me. In result, I never got to graduate and get a diploma. I had gone to school to be a dog groomer, and became a certified groomer and ran my own grooming shop. So I had never worried about getting my G.E.D. As for writing I never really had to write I always talked face to face with my clients. I had never written an essay before I started college in the September of 2010. I never liked writing because I was not experienced in doing so. Honestly I was scared of having to take Communications. Now I am starting to enjoy writing still not the best at it, but I am getting a lot better compared to what I was. The essay This I Believe I really enjoyed it was my favorite one. Overall I have made a major improvement in my writing capabilities. I have tried the different techniques of brainstorming. I have tried free writing and I didn’t like this technique, because it had no order to...
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... September 30, 2015- ENTRY 1: ME, A WRITER? Attitude: I do not write a lot since I got out of high school. I do text my parents with full paragraphs without using abbreviations. I really do not like writing, but if I have to then I will. With this class, I know I have to write and I’m willing to, but I might take longer writing in third person then first person with a topic I’m not familiar with. I am great at looking at a picture and can write a story based it. I feel comfortable writing in the English class as long as I have the time to write and think about my steps needed to write the paper. Inventory: When I took that quiz, I felt that is was accurate based on who I am. I was between being independent and social. I usually am social when I need to be but mostly independent. I was closely related to creative but was also close to pragmatic. Spatial had a five for a score. I am usually looking at the data and using it the way I think it works. I had a score of six for rational, I also had a score of five for concrete. My rational skills are high, and I think I would work on being more emotional about things that need it for writing. I believe that being concrete is good but being abstract is also a good thing. It gives the writer the big picture of their writing for a reader. September...
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...Ashley Eller December 12, 2011 UCWR110-022 Final Reflective Essay On Writing My favorite author and literary genius, Stephen King, in his memoir On Writing wrote, “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” This is possibly the best piece of advice I could ever think to give to a struggling student with a paper to write. Your first draft is always for yourself and your own personal reflection. In your second draft, “open up the doors” and write for everyone else who will be reading it. Without this solid piece of advice, I don’t think I could have ever expanded on my writing at all. Over the years, my writing career has hit its peak in junior year, and I have plateaued from there. Since being a UCWR student, I have had the chance to expand my range in my writing skills. From this course, I have learned to expand my writing ability to subjects I would never have broached before, allowing myself to heighten my awareness of the world around me as well as hinder my procrastination. In the beginning of the year, I was very disappointed I would have to take this course. From my previous experience with accelerated English and rhetoric courses, I felt I would be bored and disappointed with the classroom experience. Over the course of the semester, I have learned I was wrong. While in the beginning my engagement level was poor, I was still interested by the current events brought up in class. Some of the biggest topics we discussed (Occupy Wallstreet, Penn State...
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...When I wrote my essay Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God I had some good parts and bad parts of the essay. I believe everyone can improve their writing in a certain way. No one is a “perfect” writer, and no one “never” makes mistakes. I could improve in two areas I noticed are my thesis in this essay and my visual pictures. Two things I did well on are the usage of rhetorical devices and introductory sentences. Pros and cons are what most people have in their essays or poems. My cons with my Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God are my thesis and my visual pictures. In my thesis I could improve them by just getting to the point in my essay and always referring back to it. The three main things that I need to work on to make a perfect thesis may be clearly identifies the subject of the paper, makes an assertion about that subject, one that allows for a range of discussion; and predicts the logical order you will follow in your discussion. With my visual pictures I need to create more enthusiasm and descriptive words. Or when giving quotes from the story I need to tie it back to the thesis or how they create visuals throughout the story. For my pros in my essay it was rhetorical devices and introductory sentences. For my rhetorical devices I scored high in this essay because I tied them into the story or back to the story really good. Also I identified them good; I can easily spot these rhetorical devices in a poem. My introductory sentences are also very good I believe, they...
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...Cheng Cai Sheila Knight EH100 04/04/12 My English learning experience I was born in a non-English family. I started to learn English when I was in primary school in China. After that, I became gradually interested in this new language and, nowadays, my English level is continuing to improve. From my English learning experience, I have really learned many valuable things. First, it helps me realize not to give up halfway when facing difficulties. Also, it helps me know that I must take everything seriously. Thus, English actually has a significant effect on my life. Studying in the primary school was happy and easy for most of the pupils. For me, it was different. When I heard that I had to learn English in primary school, I was surprised and a little frightened. I was just a Chinese boy and I did not know the knowledge of reading and writing in Chinese very well. How could I learn a new foreign language? I still remember my first English class, and it was really a great challenge for me. In the class, the teacher taught us to say "Good morning" and "Good afternoon." At first, the teacher read the words slowly, and I knew how to pronounce them. Then the teacher asked us to read the sentences one by one, but I suddenly felt nervous and forgot how to read them. When it was my turn, I just read them ambiguously. After class, I felt ashamed, and I did not have confidence to learn English anymore. When I came home and told my mother what had happened,she encouraged me and...
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...vacation Traveling for vacation is really fun. You can travel in different ways in car, air plane, cruiser, and bike too. Traveling for vacation is good time to relax your self, and spend family time. For example last year my family and I going to Sebring, for vacation. This essay would be describes traveling for vacation is really fun. Everybody going to travel a need one schedule. This is make your travel in distances, because when you driver long ways you feel tire and bored. For example in my last vacation I drove for 6 hours, when I finished I felt tired and lost all morning on my first day in Sebring. Become and made my schedule this time, I think my time is much better in this vacation. Cost for travels sometime is really expensive. The cost total is all money you and need for your travel in food, gas, tickets, and also you always a need extra money in your wallet. For example I was once a travel a North Carolina and my car was broke on the way, by caring put extra money to fix it and continue the journey without further problems. This essay would be describe good planning that is needed to the cost of a trip. In my trip I have many activity per day . Activities that I do these days vacation is to visit places and never seem them. For example I want to go to Rock City, Helem, and also the Down Town of Atlanta. In this essay describe the places on my vacation times I want to see. What would I bring for my travel luggage? For my luggage is not only clothing, is...
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...seminar my expectations were that I would only have to write my college essays. Even more, I came into the class expecting to make my college essay the best it could be and that was it. I didn’t expect to have write any other essays, but in the end it worked out for the better. Throughout the semester, I was able to develop and nurture my writing skills. Not only was I writing to get into college, but also to prepare for college. However, my overall approach to writing has changed for the better since first beginning Writing Seminar. At first, I based my writing on the basic 5 paragraph technique, but as I progressed through the year, I realized that writing doesn’t really have a specific technique, but instead revolves around the idea of being able to flow. After basing my writing on flow instead of...
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...Miss Wheeler, I’m really looking forward to taking this class this semester, I feel like I’m going to be learning a lot and I feel as if I can get closer then you then I could to most of my past English teachers due to all of the students that they had. I don’t think that I should be in this class, but I understand why I’m in it. I didn’t do too well on my placement test because I rushed through it during orientation but I’m looking forward to taking this course so I can better my writing skills. In this letter I will be discussing my background, my past English class and my writing skills. I was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio and have been going to school there for the past 12 years. I’m 18 years of age, lived with my sister father and mother until parents got divorced. My mom remarried about 2 years ago, so before I left for school I lived with my mother and step dad. My sister is 20 and attends The University of Cincinnati. I’m more of a friends person then a family person, I’m just not really close to family that much. I don’t really have a special talent, I played softball and tennis in high school, and was in a couple of clubs one that I cared for a lot was called SGORR. Student Group On Race Relations, we met up after school and talked about racism and went into 4th-7th grade class rooms and did activities with the students that dealt with discrimination, and racism and that was really fun to do. I like kids and I like to travel haven’t really had the chance to...
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