process is made up of several stages. Not everyone agrees on what part is the most important. Some believe that prewriting is the key to producing a good paper, others think that revising is the most important step. My teachers emphasized all areas. Pointing out that prewriting techniques could be used at any time during the writing of a paper and showing me that revising also occurred constantly as I wrote my rough drafts. Coming up with a good idea to write about is almost always difficult, however
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essay formats help writers organize their thoughts and separate any unnecessary information. Educators insist that student’s practice writing in formats, so that their papers could be presentable to the readers. Writers such as Paul Prior, Nancy Sommers, and Anne Lamott gave readers a discrete amount of suggestions on how to prepare a paper. Paul Prior has a ‘go with the flow’ type of mindset, while following the guidelines for essay organizations. When, it comes to writing Prior suggested that students
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the essay completed early. To begin the writing process, I looked back at my freewrite to create a clear thesis for my paper: Tolkien fills his writings with many eurocentric themes to emphasize the distinction between good and evil within the story, distracting audiences from understanding the rationalities and reasonings behind the villains. I felt this was a good basis for a paper as it was narrow enough to have specific talking points, while not being too specific. At the same time it was also not
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I do not have a much experience writing a rhetorical analysis. The last time I practiced with writing a rhetorical analysis was in High School but it did not consist of writing a 6 page paper. In High School we analysed short speeches but did not go in dept on writing multiple analysis. So when writing a rhetorical analysis on a blog for this semester I had to do more research on how to write a rhetorical analysis. The activities that were helpful were the outside assignment and class workshop.
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writing a “college level” paper was last year in my AP Language and Composition class. I quickly realized that the papers we wrote in that class were nothing close to the papers we wrote in this class. All the papers written in this class had to be much more detailed and required more components than the past papers I have wrote. The most challenging part of the transition from high school papers to college papers is the length of them. I was not used to writing 3-5 page papers and it was hard for me
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writing. From the beginning of this class, I’ve been drenched in work online and in class. From doing reflections on the class everyday to the more recent research paper the class has been working on. The most helpful things that I learned in this class that can possibly be used in the future are the vocabulary words, the research paper, and the class reflections. The more helpful out of the things learned in this class was the vocabulary that we have done. Vocabulary is a key component in communication
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“Beating” is a piece of art created in 2012 by Corrine Cushman, a student who graduated from Western Illinois University later that year. The artwork is an etching, which is an intaglio type of printmaking. Intaglio processes involve using acids to etch away depressions in the material. The piece is an average size; it is not overwhelming large, but it is big enough to clearly understand the image. This etching has been loaned to Olson Hall by the WIU Printmaking Department. It hangs in the hallway
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to write at a college level. I had only written one big paper in High School and I had no idea how to do research. It was a hard experience and I had to push myself to a point that allowed me to present data in the best way possible. Thankfully, friends and the Writing Center were there at every step of my development into a confident writer. Aside from that, some of the most rewarding projects at Carleton were surprisingly assigned papers. They allowed me to express myself in a way that I had not
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One challenge that I have faced was preparing for the 7th grade United States Constitution test. I knew that this was an important test and imagined that it was going to be a very difficult one. I was worried and nervous that I wouldn’t be able to pass the test even if I studied as hard as I could. I was afraid of having to answer 150 questions all at one time and my biggest worry was that I wasn’t taking good notes. I would get very upset with myself whenever I would read over my notes then look
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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
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