...Write a 1-2 page essay in which you: 1. Address why you decided to go to college at this time in your life. 2. State the reasons behind the decision. Your assignment must: * Be at least 250 words minimum or up to 500 words maximum. * Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. * Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: * Write paragraphs and essays, and other assigned work with a clearly defined main idea, introduction, body, and conclusion. * Revise written pieces to improve clarity and organization Consider how the prewriting, writing, and revising processes can help you write the essay. Think about the topic, how to write supporting sentences, and how to organize the essay. 1. Audience, Purpose, and Subject * Each time you write, you should think about the audience, purpose, and subject for your piece of writing (Chapter 1 of Evergreen: A Guide for Writers). * The audience for this writing is your teacher and peers. * The purpose is to explain to your readers your reasons for going to college. * The subject is about your decision to go to college. 2. Prewriting * As noted in Chapter 2 of Evergreen:...
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...3.3: Topic of Your Choice Essay “A Book With Nostalgic Flavor” – Final Version * Assignment 2.3: Changing Our Lives Essay “Changing Our Lives” – Final Version * Assignment 1.3: Experiences as a Writer Paragraphs “Conquering My Fear of Writing” – Final Version “My Journey as a Writer” Aura Valdes ENG090 Prof. Rachel Hays December 15, 2012 “My Journey as a Writer” I have accomplished a great deal in the past three months. As the semester ends I find myself reflecting not only on how I have survived the first semester but also what I have learned. Writing is hard work. There is so much more to it than just writing an interesting story. I also learned another important lesson; just because I worked hard on an essay before presenting it and reviewed the daylights out of it did not mean it was ready for submission. Every time I went back to read it I found new changes, typos and other mistakes I had missed before. Reviewing and revising an essay is an essential part of writing. Reviewing allows me to rewrite and make changes in the essay’s content, organization and sentence structures. It allows me to add, remove, move or substitute words to make sure it communicates effectively the purpose of the essay. The task of reviewing the essays I wrote for this course allowed me to learn and improve my writing skills; as a result my essays have evolved into more stylish and fluent pieces of writing. Out of all the essays I wrote in this course, “A Book...
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...writing an essay, or comprehending the given passages, or even summarizing the given texts, here are some ways at which could definitely help you improve your English results. 1. Understand that Oral constitutes a large part of the entire O level English score Paper 1, composition, and paper 2, comprehension, both take up 40% of the entire result respectively. This means that the leftover 20% is attributed to the Oral component. This is one-fifth and is a large percentage. Ignore at your own risk. Here are some ways in which you can do well for your Oral component: * Use your own accent to read the passage, and do not fake an accent. If you fake a British accent, and the examiner himself knows that you are faking it, he may deliberately penalize you. * Discuss about the picture and not describe the picture. Talk about the pictures, and then talk on them. For instance, if there is a long queue at the barber, perhaps talk about whether you think that the barber might be having a promotion, or that it may be the start of the school term and students are getting ready for school. Discuss about the picture, don't describe * For the conversation topic, make sure you allow the examiner to talk! This is a conversation, and not a one-sided affair. Ask the examiner questions so that the conversation is maintained. 2. Spend time learning to write good narratives If you are still contemplating which essay type to write, my suggestion is to go for the narrative essay. Why? Simply...
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...Throughout all of high school, students are taught in minimal ways to produce “perfect” essays and present them so that when they get to college they can pass their classes. This means that high school teachers only teach them to write so specifically and in such a hard structured manner, that many students hardly ever learn to write papers that flow. In high school, I always wrote really nice papers that my teachers enjoyed grading, however, I always hated writing them because if I did not use the cookie cutter format that they gave us, my teachers would not accept the work. The format that I am referring to goes as follows: hook, introduction, and thesis for paragraph one, three body paragraphs with two examples to support your thesis in each paragraph, and finally a conclusion ("Essay Template"). In total, there were five paragraphs, never any more, and never any less. The hook was always supposed to be a quote related to the topic or a factual piece of information...
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...horrible at essays! Throughout my education career I have had a difficult time writing papers, whether it was a creative writing story or a research paper. But as I struggled through every essay in English class I was able to learn a great deal of tips to help me through every mistake I made along the way, which helped me some but still, I felt lost. I have always dreaded having to write essays in English classes because I knew it would most likely only hurt my grade, but all of that changed once I found a teacher who I could open up to and who genuinely cared about me succeeding in her class. I then went from having no confidence in any of my essays, to having a smile on my face when I received them back with an A on the front. I may have struggled when it came to how to construct an essay and how to make it flow, but by the time I finished Mrs. Wiley’s class my junior year all of that changed for me. All right so now I guess the secrets out! Although I may be a good writer now, lets start back at the beginning. As I use to sit there at my desk while the teacher was handing out the rubric for the next writing assignment my hands would start to sweat and the nerves would start to kick in. All I could do was stare at my laptop not knowing where to even start. The only thing that had ever stuck with me is to use the correct punctuation that everyone had learned in the 2nd grade and always, always, always make sure you use MLA format. From there I would just start typing whatever...
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...Writing an essay is not as much about the end product as it is the journey to get there. You may possess the most expansive vocabulary, but the one variable that shows through your writing is time. Time is the one factor that shows improvement, effort, and persistence. Without time, the journey would not exist. Step one in the journey is throwing ideas on to paper. Throwing refers to the chaos of that first step. In my case, the throwing of ideas was evident in the lack of cohesion and argument. This action of throwing is only able to happen if the topic is of meaning to the writer. The topic I chose, the benefits of immersion programs to help learn a language, is something I am very passionate about. I've been lucky enough to experience it...
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...flexibility, environment, and length of class makes online a better decision. Looking further within the variables of flexibility, traditional education is considered to be very structured. The classes are set for specific times and days of the week without change. Undoubtedly, this can be very helpful when scheduling your everyday activities or goals. In addition, you know when you have to attend classes. In fact, attendance is a requirement; to receive an adequate lecture of course materials and information you need to be there to receive the appropriate knowledge to pass the class. Of course, disciplining yourself with your attendance, travel time to school, and organization of your life and education will guide you on a path to achieve a good traditional education. However, if a strict schedule through traditional education is more demanding of you, and you would prefer having a more flexible schedule, the convenience of online education would be the way to go. In fact, all class materials are obtainable online 7 days a week 24 hours a day. Therefore, students can access any reading materials, discussions, explanations, and comments whenever they need to. Moreover, from anywhere across the glob that has Internet access can students attend class any time. Therefore, students can attend to personal...
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...27 AUG 14 English 106 1700 The Indians are Coming for America In the essay “While I was Sleeping” by Thomas L. Friedman, he made a very strong argument (figuratively) that the world is becoming flat. After reading this essay, one really has no choice but to agree. The essay was written fairly recently due to the fact that he mentions very current technology in this essay. Mr. Friedman said “I just want to understand why Indians were taking Americans work and why they have become such an important pool for outsourcing Americans work” (626). It is obvious that he is somewhat warning the American culture, young and middle aged. The world really is flat in regards to technology, the economy, and our ever changing cultures. Thomas L. Friedman’s argument in this essay is that the world is flattening. He starts with the setting on a golf course in Bangalore, India. Bangalore is the home of the modern world’s most advanced technology. The author kept comparing his journey to Bangalore, to the journeys of Christopher Columbus. As we all know Christopher Columbus set out to find a more direct way to India and to prove that the world was round. The author of this essay uses the modern world of technology and its recent advances to prove that the world is in fact flat and that everyone needs to be ready to except significant changes to our culture and power as we know it. Through the help of interviews with the CEO of Infosys Technologies Limited, he supports the fact that...
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...Academic Journal #1 Stacey Cayetano June 24, 2012 ENGL1035 Composing Process 1. What is the purpose of the subheading winter gardens, what is so significant about talking about God in a story named Making Babies? The purpose of the section of the story talking about God is to show the innocence of a child, how a child imagination can run wild and bring up questions that leave the parents wondering or trying to formulate how to answer in a way that doesn’t hurt their feelings or make them believe that what they think is correct. It also shows the difficulties of being parents how you as a human being doesn’t have the answers for everything but you should know how to answers your children doubts and curiosity. This part of the story also shows how religion has an influence on a child life and no matter how much you try to hide it the questions of supernatural being will always arise. 2. What is the significance of an entire community being involved with the birth and development of a child and why? From reading the story it is stated that the entire community is not involved in the birth and development of a child. It is just the parents and grandparents of the child that are involved with the birth. The community needs to help and being involved for the days that the mother and child are in isolation. With the help from the community, the child will have a variety of people that will help him or her during their development and help with the discipline...
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...Unit 11: Reflection Essay At the start of this semester my feelings towards writing altogether was extremely negative, whether it was writing a short one paragraph letter or a five page essay I wanted nothing to do with it. Never seeing the point, I have always had a hard time just starting the essay. I could not find the inspiration to write what was needed to create the work of literature my teacher expected of me. With that being said, I can honestly admit that I have never actually completed any writing assignments out of class and next to none of the assignments done in class. Needless to say I have probably failed all but one year in English classes, and the one I passed was because the teacher received a death threat from a student and left the school. Most of the teachers simply spent his/her time keeping me in line so as not to distract the other students. This semester, however, I definitely feel my writing has improved. I have a better understanding of how to structure my entire paper, whether its sentence structure or paragraph layout, what parts of speech should not be used in a paper and to limit my use of contractions. This class has also taught me to spend more time outside of school working on perfecting my work which I plan to take into later classes. All of these changes were made possible because for the first time I had a teacher who was able to make the subject enjoyable and fun. I definitely had the easiest time with the assignments that allowed me to...
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...that, Harvard Medical School Professor Charles A. Czeisler states that “many educators think that adolescents learn best in the morning and the reason why some adolescents are weary and irritable is that they stay up too late, or they are too lazy to wake up early in the morning.” (Czeisler, 52) The conventional belief these educators maintain is that if adolescents can cultivate the habit of going to sleep earlier, it would help them learn better in school and improve their performance in class. As a result, although there is no research calculating the exact average start time of middle school in China and the start time vary from province to province, many of the middle schools starts at around 07:20 according to numerous studies reporting timetables which educators in certain local middle schools...
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...Home School vs. Public School Please use the style handbook to see how to correctly format your essay. The title should be in the same font as the rest of the essay. Rough Draft When children become of age and it is time for them to start school, many parents question what is best for their child’s education, home schooling or public school. With home schooling and public schooling have their pros and cons, but many parents often question which one is actually better for their child. Though public schools are effective in helping a child develop social skills, home schooling is a more direct and focused on your education. Home schooling can be good for a child in many ways. They have a more direct and focused method of learning because the class size is not as large as a public school class. Children as well as parents are able to have a more flexible schedule because it is up to them to set a schedule that will work out for them time wise. Home school gives parents an opportunity to be flexible. Parents feel that with home school, learning at home is the safest, most secure environment in which their child can learn. It makes sense that children would thrive in the comfort of their own homes, wearing whatever they want, with the restroom and kitchen close by for breaks. With the absence of diversions for home students, they tend to be more focused on the lessons being taught and complete the work they are expected to do. Without having to meet the pace of other students...
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...Going to business school would help you advance in that field. It's important to remember that B-Schools see themselves as a means to an end, not an end in themselves. They want students who are ambitious and plan to use business school to get them ahead in their chosen fields. They DO NOT want students who are applying to business school because they want the credential on their record, or because they don't know what they want to do and need more time to figure it out. That being said, B-School is full of those kind of people (who have no idea what they want to do yet), but all of them managed to tell a compelling story on their applications about how business school was the right place for them and how it would help them in their careers. Try to display initiative and become a leader in an area that interests you. Try to become the head of a club, the captain of a sports team, the editor of a magazine, or the director of a movie. B-schools will look for that kind of engagement and "management" experience. They want to know that you are good at interacting with people, that you have some "leadership" skills, and that you are invested enough in what you do to want to take ownership of it. Now, about work experience. It used to be the case that very few students came straight from undergrad programs into Business School. Although schools now seem to be admitting more and more students straight out of college, it is still rare and you may find yourself struggling...
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...Changing Our Lives Essay The reason I decided to go back to school is to make a better life for my daughter and myself. I know it is going to be a struggle but my daughter is worth the struggle. When I graduated from high school I went to college but I didn’t like doing cosmetology so I stopped. I started working and felt making money was more important. I started out with just one job then started working another one. I was eighteen or nineteen working two jobs with just a high school education. I felt like I wasn’t getting anywhere so I enrolled back in school but couldn’t stay focus so I stopped again. A year later I got pregnant with my daughter. I kept working and didn’t seem to get anywhere. I enrolled back in school online this time but didn’t get the concept. I kept working and also thought about going into the military but I didn’t meet the requirements. By this time my daughter was going on a year old I still haven’t figured out what I wanted to do. I took a year or so off and kept working. Later I enrolled into Miller-Motte, stayed a semester and left. I found out the program I was in wasn’t credited. I started looking at different online schools. I called and talked to their advisors to see how there online program worked. I found Strayer University and got a lot of good information about the school. I told myself before my daughter starts school, I want to at least have my associate degree in Criminal Justice. My daughter is the main reason I am back...
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...Essay Writing 2: Planning & Structuring Your Essays Effective Learning Service Essay Writing 2: Planning & Structuring Your Essays University of Bradford, School of Management Essay Writing (2): Planning & Structuring Your Essays ESSAY WRITING (2): PLANNING & STRUCTURING YOUR ESSAYS WHY WRITE ESSAYS? Look for the word ‘essay’ in the dictionary and you will find one meaning listed is ‘to attempt’. An essay is an attempt by you to communicate your arguments or knowledge of a subject to the reader, usually your tutor. The mark awarded is a reflection, not on your intellect generally, but on your ability to communicate your ideas on the subject in question. Many tutors – and students – believe essays help in four ways: Ø They can be a good way to learn. The process of writing will help you clarify your thoughts on a subject or topic Ø They show your tutors that you understand key ideas on any particular subject Ø They are useful as a means of gaining feedback on your academic progress Ø Essays are usually an important part of overall assessment. Essay writing can therefore be viewed in a positive way. However, essays can cause be a source of anxiety to many students, particularly at the start of their academic careers. Many students feel vulnerable when they write and submit essays and feel their intellect generally is subject to official scrutiny. They have plenty of thoughts and ideas inside their heads – but how to get these out in a readable form? This is the challenge...
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