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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all of my papers, I stray way off track just to make a point that needed one sentence of explanation. During the time I sent on my final portfolio, I really tried to focus on getting the point across in much shorter detail and making sure I am staying on topic. The thing that has helped me the most is the feedback I am receiving from you and my classmates. I decided to begin with my original research paper, which is my text of choice, and follow with my final draft of my research paper. My main reasoning
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Kimberly Nunez Professor Shaver English 100S 20 July 2016 Journal 6 In the passage from “Reading Rhetorically” by John C. Bean, Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam, talks about the different ways/strategies a person can read. There are three type of readers, there is the “Fast”, “Slow to moderate” and the “Very slow” readers. According to text, I am considered a “Slow to moderate” reader. My strategy is to read slowly in order to understand the text well. I need time to process what I’m
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In English III the entire class got to read three different types of stories. All in the time frame of this Junior year of highschool. In this paper it will be talking about the society of each story and the society of today. Overall how society affects our lives in different ways. The time of each story has a big impact on the society times too. What was okay and what wasn’t okay. How people looked at each other. How society affected one another. The first story was called The Crucible. It was set
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Many Chicanx/Latinx students, including myself, never really learned our history in U.S. high schools. Growing up, I never really cared that my people were excluded from textbooks, maybe it was because I was always conditioned to think of U.S. history as the same thing we’ve always been told in every single textbook we looked at. For me, it was good enough to think that Cesar Chavez was included in a small section of my textbooks. It wasn’t until I started college and took my first Ethnic Studies
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audience calls an effective writing skills. In addition to this an effective writer must have an extensive vocabulary to be able express yourself. To be an effective writer means the reader will understand thoroughly everything you are writing on the paper. My personal experience in writing was challenging and valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical
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Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” is an excerpt from her book, Bird by Bird (1994), where she argues to let go of the anxieties and fears of creating a masterpiece paper right away by simply writing without question in order to get all of your thoughts out first. She refers to this style of writing to one of a child’s while also reminding the reader to just freely write knowing that no one else will be seeing this initial draft. It’s clear Lamott wants to connect with her readers and help ease
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In “Writing and Teaching for Surprise”, Donald M. Murray, writes about the true, raw writing process. He explains in the beginning of the essay that writing is all about the experience and the process of how you end up with the final paper. He says several times that the best work is that which stems from hours of jotting down random, seemingly illogical sentences. And that by the end of the piece, those unorganized sentences have been edited and are now a fluid flow of words coming together to create
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social stories on communication So this week was slow again because of the academic award ceremony. The first two periods were pretty empty of students so I mostly did research for the social stories. I honestly never knew how hard it was to find paper social stories. With everything being on line now it’s a nightmare. Looking at from a social worker perspective this is a barrier for the student. The student cant afford an I-pad and the school does not
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The annotated bibliography is an important section of the paper. Usually, a large amount of sources is positive, particularly in research paper where the writer chooses a thesis plus a focusing question to narrow his research and needs plenty of data and evidence that could support what is trying to demonstrate. The annotated bibliography “provides a brief summary of what the source says” where the writer should focus on the main points when talking about each of them (Ballenger, 2014, p. 72). For
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