are no longer expected to write papers but type them up; Papers are no longer expected to be just writing but integrated with pictures and graphs; Projects have also changed from who can learn the most to who can make it look good. Computers have revolutionized education, but not without a cost. The cost is the quality of education some students receive. Computers take time students would normally use reading and researching so that they can make their project or paper more attractive. Time is taken
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Semester Final Reflective Essay At the beginning of this semester I felt this course would go smoothly and I could complete it with no difficulty. As the semester began I was expecting the similar English courses I had experienced through the past four years of high school, which is exactly what I got. We reviewed the same basic grammar skills and writing techniques. Although one thing seemed to be different compared to the other high school teachers, you were able to take interest into our work
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I can honestly say that I feel like I use my strengths every day. Before I started college at Bethel, though, that was not the case. I loved writing in high school and my first years of college. I enjoyed research, reading, and writing papers that presented an argument and moved the reader. At my current position, the only writing I get to do every day is in the form of short emails. I utilize strengths other than writing while at work, such as planning, prioritizing, teaching and developing
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desires and realizes that he wants to be a writer. In the first part of the story, Baker describes how writing interested him, but there were so many other unattractive things about English. He talked about how boring Grammar was and that writing papers were like a chore and robotic. He even said that reading the classics were “deadening as chloroform” (Baker, 1982). Baker touches on a good point in this section. School, for a lot of students, ends up being dull and repetitious due to boring
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The Bad and The Ugly I can recall a time when I had to write a paper for English Composition I. I was attending Ivy Tech Community College at that time. The professor asked the class to write a paper about our major, my major was Early Childhood Education. This experience I had at Ivy Tech was not my first when it came to writing a formal essay, but it was just as nerve wrecking as the first time. When I began writing formal essay papers, in high school, it was not easy for me. In the first part of
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English class by far was my least liked class in all my middle school and high school education and never would I have thought that what I once disliked as a student would be of such importance to my future career. Being able to write, read, and understand, simply becomes the basics to learning and getting through college, and I, myself am still acquiring the necessary skills to become a better writer. In fact, one of the goals I plan to accomplish through my college education is to become a better
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Effect of a Paper Plane’s different masses on its time on flight The following experiment (underneath) is to do with a paper plane and its mass and time of flight. Here is a chance to experiment with different masses of a paper plane to observe how it affects it’s time of flight. Research Question: How does the mass (g) of a paper plane affect the time (seconds) of its flight? Hypothesis: It is expected that, the more mass on the paper plane’s wings, the time of flight will decrease. This
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Chapter 1: Loser Me! In this book I am expressly only dwelling upon only those emotions that are needed to inspire you, my reader. Let me state here I was never the brightest, the most intelligent or the most beautiful in any phase of my life. I have always been cherubic plump since childhood giving other kids a lot of opportunity for creative name calling. I have never topped or scored above average. My upbringing was conservative middleclass with all its cultural limitations of a girl child growing
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know that because I have been challenged, and learned to overcome the challenge of writing rhetorical strategies, it is safe to say, that I am read to enter English 124. This paper will illustrate my understanding of English 120 and why I, Michelle Page, feel I am ready to move on to English 124. Let me start with the first paper we wrote in this class, it was an Argument Analysis Essay and I chose to write it on Carol
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writing process is the biggest thing that helped me in Composition class. There was only one essay where I did not use the writing process and because of that, I didn’t write to my fullest potential. After that learning experience, I started each paper with an outline. My outline consisted of splitting my information into paragraphs and from there figuring out the best way to put my ideas into words. Once I had a finished outline, I checked with Mrs. Gelwicks to ensure my essay would succeed. After
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