...|Title of Unit: Narrative writing - (Controlled Assessment 7.5%) | |Term: 1 | |Year: 10 | |Duration: 3/4 weeks | |Overview: | |WJEC provides a list of narrative tasks from which the candidates must choose one. These tasks are replaced each year. The tasks for 2015 are: | | | |(a) Write a story beginning: ‘I’m not coming and that’s the end of it.’ | | | |(b) Happy Days | | ...
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...not using pronouns such as I, me, and myself. I have learned that writing is not as easy as I thought it was. Writing takes time and planning. To have a nice, well written paper, I have to take time to go though it a few times to check for mistakes and errors. The biggest challenge for me so far has been time management. I am in high school and I tend to remember homework for my physical classes better than this one. I also have a part-time job and volunteer two to three times a week. Both of these things tend to get in my way when...
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...For me, writing has always been something I do to get my crazy busy mind organized. Writing ultimately is my way of setting my personal game plan. I love to write out my daily and weekly schedule, meal plan, set goals, make lists of every kind, plan and record trips, and even write essays! Writing always helps me unwind and feel more relaxed because my brain doesn’t have to remember everything on its own. Often times I find myself wanting to include every single little detail about everything even when it is not necessary or wanted. I wrote a grant last year in my English class and found that you cannot include every detail in that type of writing or it will come off as unprofessional. I found myself constantly rewriting paragraph after paragraph...
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...I have, in the past, been called a perfectionist. My experience with writing revolves mostly around me trying my hardest to write something I'm happy with and then pretty quickly deleting it when I decide it’s not good enough. For example, this is my fourth time trying to write an opening paragraph, my third time writing just this sentence, and I only settled on the words “opening paragraph” after writing both “first paragraph” and “the beginning of this paper.” It’s not that I have an issue finding the words, I just can’t seem to put them in an order i like. Which is why I stay on the other side of writing. I’ve been reading since a really young age. My first books were mostly science based due to my parents trying to raise me to be as...
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...was stronger in some aspects of my academic abilities than others, writing, not being one of those strengths. Due to past high school experiences confidence in my writing abilities dwindled as a result of four years of poor mentoring. Developing a strong passion for the sciences and acquiring an acute fear of any English reading or writing course. My fight with comma confusion and run on sentences stunted my excitement to be enrolled in a purely writing and comprehension focused course. Within the first few weeks we were introduced to an assignment that focused on defining a word or phrase, I chose to define the word “perfection”. Unfortunately, sending myself into a self-loathing downward spiral due to the unknown degree of difficulty of this word. I struggled with the direction I wanted to go with this paper, then ran into the time engulfing task of trying to capture the ideas that I had accumulated in my head into four pages. The job of capturing these ideas and organizing them into a comprehendible paper was no easy feat, battling between my free writing thoughts and my high school English essay rules, this took me 5 days, 4 long nights, and many calls for help to...
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...was hoping that I would get a teacher that would help me improve my writing skills and help me improve my SAT score and I received my wish. I ended up getting Mrs. Miles as a my English teacher and I was very excited to get her as a teacher because I wanted to see how fun she makes English and it was a lot of fun.Writing is like cooking you can only have a few ingredients but, you can make something actually mouth-watering out of it. Overall, I have greatly improved my writing skills for the future. The first essay that I would like to talk about is my Romanticism Fictional Narrative that I made in my 10th grade English class. The reason why I chose to talk about this essay is because it shows how creative I can without an outline. What I liked about this essay is how creative and descriptive it is. I made this essay by basically going off what my brain imagined. What I learned from this essay is when I do not use an an outline my ideas are more artistic....
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...I have never been an awful writer. I have also never been an amazing writer. Over the course of this semester, I have watched my writing evolve a bit. Although I do not see a drastic change in my writing I do see some which is good. Throughout elementary school, I always felt like I was a bad writer. I thought that the most when we all took the writing TAKS test and I received a two out of four. This score convinced me that I would never be a good writer. From then until the sixth grade I believed that. In the sixth grade, I had a wonderful writing teacher who loved my work. She loved my work and thought I was an extraordinary writer. She gave me the confidence to write more and more. When seventh grade came my writing had gotten even better....
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...Writing has always been an outlet me. I find comfort in writing to getting my feelings and emotions down on paper. Once I get into thought about a topic the words just flow and I maintain a good rhythm. I really enjoy writing, however, critiquing my own writing, as well as correcting can be a struggle for me at times, but I have come a long way from where I first started, when my first semester in college. As I began to look through my grades for my writing in human behavior and the social environment, I found they were pretty good grades. Out of the five assignments that I compared my average grade was an 86. which breaks down to two 90’s and two 83’s and one 84. I am satisfied with these grades and they seem fair. This semester was the first time I have used APA formatting. Using APA format has...
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...I really wish I could start this assignment by expressing nothing but my passions for writing, however writing has never been my strong suit, with that being said I honestly only write when it is assigned or absolutely necessary to be completely honest. I have to say that yes, writing, to me is very scary, Mostly, when I have to put anything I write out there for others to read. More so if I do not know the person or persons who will be reading. Therefore I always work best with a deadline to which I set myself up with a couple hours of uninterrupted time to complete an assigned task. The best place for me to do such is at a nice clear desk free of debris and anything distracting. I also have found I can only write in silence, music, television, others talking around me. If not I am gone away from the task at hand thinking of everything but. When I begin writing, personally, I have always been a fan of thought bubbles, or trees, something basic and simple that ties my early lessons in writing with my current writing. With just a quick spree of words...
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...Throughout this semester, I have developed my professional and academic writing, making use of the writing tools introduced in assessment one (Prowritingaid, Grammarly and PaperRater) and sharing the tools with my work colleagues. Although this has been valuable as the errors identified continue to reduce, I am concerned that I have solely relied on the tools to critique my work as I have not planned time for seeking feedback and critiquing my work using multiple sources - something I had identified would improve my writing confidence and academic literacy. Although not fluent, I can identify and correct when I am writing in a passive voice and gain reinforcing feedback from the writing tools that I am improving. I am on the way to improving...
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...One major thing I learnt from this class was to primarily focus on what other people said about my certain topic first, rather than coming up with an argument that doesn’t have strong roots. I used to focus more on what `I wanted` to say, and ignore what other scholars have already established. My inclination towards being a selfish writer caused me to struggle through the writing process. Since I did not listen to what other scholars have said in the past most of the time, finding sources that supported my specific argument was a rough thing to accomplish. Throughout the semester, “They Say, I Say” oriented discussion taught me that listening to other people is as important as speaking clearly. In fact, in a field like psychology, one cannot...
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...Entering into Cal State Channel Islands was a winning victory. I was aware of the fact I was going to improve my writing skills abandoned the old skills I was previously been taught in high school. It was like “killing two birds with one stone.” The stone was abolishing the five sentence per paragraph policy. The two birds represented writing techniques and understanding how to express myself into a paper. Unfortunately, the only English classes I have ever taken in my higher education were English 102 and English 103. From what I can recall, I was intellectually thinking and writing constantly about my opinions on certain topics. The implementation of doing self-evaluations through writing assignments help me drastically. I was conscious about making sense instead of writing remarkably. Is the...
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...As an avid writer with previous writing experience, I personally know what my strengths and weakness are. My strengths are being creative and being able to overcome writer’s block. My shortcomings are my lack of punctuation and my awful handwriting in certain cases. Though the hardest obstacle for me to overcome is trying to convey the tone from my head onto paper. This is where a more sophisticated vocabulary comes in handy as it allows me to properly convey my feelings or opinions to others. There is a multitude of strategies and methods to improve my writing skills. The easiest and most effective way to improve is to read a dictionary and highlight words that can be incorporated into your vocabulary. Though the oldest and perhaps the best...
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...If I am writing a paper, work e-mail, or discussion post for an online course I tend to use the same writing process. I would say it is a mix of both Anne Lamott’s described process in “Shitty First Drafts” and the 3x3 writing process in Guffey. My writing is usually done in 3 stages but sometimes only 2, when the prewriting and drafting stage blend together or if I am preparing something like and e-mail that does not need as much prewriting as a paper or discussion post might need. The first thing I do when preparing to write it get out a piece of paper and take notes. I scribble down the questions that needed answered or my thoughts on the topic of the e-mail I am preparing. Once I have those thoughts on paper I try and began to organize...
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...Thinking about my individual writing process has caused me to forget how I begin a paper. It’s strange to think about the concept of what writing is before you actually write something. After reading over the assigned pages to give me the help I need to discover what my individual writing process is I “skimmed” over freewriting. I tend to just start writing and let my thoughts flow and I feel like it’s what best suits my writing style. So here we go. My individual writing process includes freewriting, lists, and looping. I like to use freewriting because I enjoy continually writing and letting my ideas flow out. Sometimes when I get stuck, it helps me to have a list of the things that I want to include in my writing so I can elaborate and expand on them. After I get to a certain point, I use the process of looping. Looping can be considered a side effect of freewriting. I loop by rereading what I have written and decide if I like the order and the theme of my...
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