...Throughout my life I have jumped from wanting one career to wanting another. When I was younger, I wanted to be things like a singer, an actress, and even an astronaut. Achievable for some people, but unrealistic for me. I didn't know that I actually wanted to be a writer until 2013. In 2013, I started writing stories because I had all of these different ideas that I wanted to write about. That’s where my love of writing really began, but I believe that I had always liked writing. A career as a writer obviously entails writing. It also entails doing research for your writing and editing the things that you write unless you have an editor. Writers can write for magazines, newspapers, websites, etc. They can also write books which is what I plan on doing. Most full-time positions as a writer require a degree in English, Journalism, or Communications. Writing experience can be gained by doing internships or any form of writing that improves your writing skills. Seeing that as a writer, your job is to write, you must have good writing skills. You have to be able to capture a reader’s interest because if your writing is boring and bland, no one will read what you write. People don't read things that don't interest them....
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...the future. For example, a student can set up a success plan such as academic goals to ensure having a certain G.P.A and maintaining it throughout the school year. By doing this he/she has to be motivated to get good grades in assignments, quizzes, and tests. As for me, becoming a better writer means to have my point clear enough so that a reader can comprehend what is written. In order for me to become a better writer motivation is important in order to improve my weaknesses. My main weaknesses in writing are making sure my sentence structure is correct and putting my thoughts together so that they flow. Having motivation to improve will help me look at my sentences and take a step back so that I can make sure they are right. Also, so I can see where my mistakes are being made. It will also help me to do brainstorming exercise when writing papers so that I can make sure my thoughts are executed on paper as well as they are in my head. The first step in becoming a better writer is knowing what needs work and understanding that even our strengths can use some improvement as well. My strengths include good thoughts and understating what I am writing about. My thought process is good when writing and I can easily put together a good essay with good thoughts....
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...Writer Autobiography When it comes to writing, it may be captivating and enjoyable for some while being threatening and intimidating for others. Throughout my academic career, I have learned a great deal about writing. Starting from grade school all the way up until college, writing has been a fundamental part of my life. I have come to learn that from all my experiences and influences, I have been shaped into a descriptive writer. My strength in writing has always come from describing a situation in as much detail as I can. This shaping of mine has been characterized by certain events and certain people in my life, and it has helped give an identity of what type of writer I am and what type of student I am. In order to develop into an adequate writer with an identity for yourself, one must have been educated a certain way. For me, there was one person in particular that helped turn me into a comfortable descriptive writer. In my sophomore year of high school, my English 2 teachers’ name was Jeannette Maldonado. She, like many of her other peers, was a first year teacher, and I did not expect to get an adequate grasp of writing and literature because of her inexperience. However, Ms Maldonado turned out to be a major turning point in my writing life, as she would not only challenge her students on assignments, but would give constructive criticism and work with you to help develop your ideas. Up until that point, I had been just an average writer and really did not give much...
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...be the choice for potential careers. With a finger on the pulse of what I want my legacy to be, I decided the potential careers that could suit me would be that of a clinical psychologist, a ghost writer, and an English teacher. Each of these jobs would allow me to place my thumbprint on the world in a way that would leave the people who encounter me forever changed in a positive way. When factoring what would comprise the weight criteria I decided that distance, pay, life’s work, enjoyment, and ability would all be items that would be the be the deciding factors as to which career would suit me best. I anticipated that the scores would be either vastly different or all pooled to one side. The oddity here was that the scores seemingly balanced out. The level of enjoyment and potential for life’s work were all around the same percentage wise for each career. However, the actual rating caused the numbers to look vastly different. For example, enjoyment for work as a ghost writer was high 95, while work as an English teacher was rated at simply a 75. According to www. freelance.com, “A ghost writer is hired for his or her quality of work, and not necessarily for his or her "name" as a book writer.” This would allow for a high enjoyment rate. No pressure to be blocked into one genre of writing. (Cole, 2014) According to http://platorubric.stanford.edu/ , protocols required for an English teacher are rigid and fixed. This would consistently stifle my creativity. (Protocols for...
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...becoming a writer, there are many things you can be a writer for. Writers have subgenres of job types that a person can prepare, with some being more beneficial than others. Being a writer is very diverse and can be really laid back and you have more freedom than most types of jobs. With this career, it's more important to gather information relating to what a person is writing about, to have legitimacy to what their stories or articles are going over. To get this point, it's pretty much certain that to be successful as a writer, before you have to go get a college education in certain areas of study that correlate with becoming a writer. Someone who are...
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...Content Writer Interview Questions and Tips Planning to take up a fulfilling job as online content writer or taking up writing as a career? Well as with all creative pursuits’ content writing also demands a fair bit of creativity apart from consistent quality. But when you have both, writing can be a fulfilling calling indeed. This small content/copy writing interview guide lists the interview questions common to all jobs apart from focusing on the questions more likely to be asked in any interview for a content or Web copy writer. While I was planning to write a small content writing interview guide for a long time what finally made me put my fingers to the keyboard was the truly vast experience gained after giving 11 interviews in 14 days! Persistence does pay at the end of the day. The Getup: As content writing is a relatively informal job, even an informal getup with a semi-formal shirt should do fine. No need for any tie or suit. Punctuality: This is a must irrespective of the job you apply for. Make sure you reach the venue at least 15-20 minutes before the appointed time and put your documents or reference of past work in order and do remember to have an attractive resume in hand. 1) Tell me something about yourself. This is the most common interview question which will almost certainly be asked to any candidate. While it seems a pretty straightforward question many find it the toughest as it’s quite open ended and people fumble when required to speak...
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...Kidd Adv. Comp/ 3rd Hr Ms. Huter 30 November 2011 Strengths and Weaknesses Writing is the dominant foundation upon which most communication is based. Efficient writing is used to convey distinct information or ideas. Great care is essential to ensure that a message is interpreted correctly by the intended audience. Timing, grammar, vocabulary, and other writing skills are vital techniques to master. Planning for college and a career demands consideration of these skills. Advanced composition will assist in reaching my goals of utilizing current strengths, overcoming specific weaknesses, and preparing for a college career. Writers often develop personal strengths. Personally, it is easy to be creative, persuasive, informative, and precise. Creative writing is used to express the writer’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Persuasive writing may be expressed by convincing readers of the writer’s viewpoint. Informative writings are used to familiarize the reader with the topic at hand. Various people often face the challenge of remaining focused when writing. Generally it is easy for me to stay focused and proceed with the correct topic. Writers often cultivate weaknesses when writing. Individually, it is difficult to grasp the concept of proper punctuation, extended vocabulary, unwanted repetitiveness, and accurate grammar. Proper punctuation is very important...
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...The journey of my writing Writing is a beautiful thing. There are like rainbows rare majestic and transparent. Good writing is rare and majestic because the reader understands exactly the point of view that the writer is trying to convey. They are also transparent because the writers meaning can be hidden through symbolism, irony or even syntax. However good writing is a process just like anything else. It takes time to tone your skills and develop your writing. My writing is no exception. There are many things I need to develop. It has considerably grown from when I first started writing in 4th grade till now. My first writing was a fictional story we had to come up with. IU wrote about being trapped on an island that was surrounded by sharks. It sounds pretty easy however it was not. My story did not flow throughout for example as I crashed down and swam towards the island there were sharks. There is no transition from the crash to sharks. For a 4th grader trying to write a simple story was hard.I was a beginner in wrting. Many teachers were surprised at my writing skill. I was a bookworm and was well above my reading level. Being able to read high level was suppose to increase your writing skills or that’s what I believed. But that did not happen to me. The teachers and myself kept asking how can I be such a good reader but not a good writer. That question used to mistify me, I could not figure out the answer for that. I kept reading higher level books and still that...
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...prepositional phrases, essays, etc. are terms that haunted me throughout my childhood. I just think of all the hours that I spent staring at a blank sheet of paper and trying to figure out what to write. I remember looking around and seeing everyone else just writing away. I thought to myself, “Why can’t I write like them, what is wrong with me?” I made it though, I don’t know how but I did. Now that I am older and more mature I realize that I made it because of my motivation to pass my class. It’s motivation that I will use to have success in my English class and become a better writer. In order to succeed I know I have to find my weaknesses in my writing abilities and improve on them. I will need these writing abilities to become a better writer and advance in my career. If I had to define motivation I would say it’s when your mind won’t let you give up and you will do things out of the normal or do extra to succeed. If you would have told me two months ago that I will be learning what a prepositional phrase was, I would have laughed at you. I do know what it is today, however, that is because I have a goal and that is to become a better writer. My motivation has me studying after a long day of work, when I would be going to the gym or just watching television from bed. I been doing things out of the norm because I am so focused. My weaknesses, when it comes to writing, is coming up with ideas and my grammar skills. In the past I have always had this problem because I never...
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...growth spurt in my writing in one day and just magically turn into an award-winning writer overnight, but huge growth spurts in writing never happen overnight so that thought is probably unrealistic. Growing as a writer happens over time and through many trial-and-error pieces of work. No good writer has started out at their best, but instead, they grow into it because they learn new things in the course of their writing career. Over the course of this semester, I have grown more as a writer than I did in the first three years of high school combined, so yes, I did have a growth spurt as a writer, but it didn’t happen all at once and I am not finished growing. This semester, I have had to write...
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...The primary purpose of my research paper is to present a cross-section of the current conversations taking place around the way memoirs affect the writers who publish them. Based on my research, it appears that the effects tend to involve emotional and psychological consequences, as well as legal troubles in some instances. The discovery of this conversation helped me to refine my research topic into the question, “Do the benefits of publishing a memoir outweigh the risks of their effects for writers?” This research explores the positive and negative effects of memoirs on their writers to determine whether or not the risks are worth the rewards. Although writing a memoir can result in lawsuits and family discord, it more often proves to be therapeutic and can be the starting point of a nonfiction writer's career. What if I told you that memoirs are incredibly important to our society, because they document the human experience in such an honest way? Although they are valuable, they can also be risky. One key issue is that a memoir’s admissions risk causing major drama for writers, including legal trouble. In addition, they can be a catalyst for burning bridges with former employees. They can also potentially destroy long-term personal relationships. In this paper, I work to discover if it is worth all the drama to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As I began my research, I initially uncovered several negative aspects of writing a memoir. One such risk...
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...Unit 2 Assignment CM107 Julie Loder Writing is defined as the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text. As part of any organization writing is an extremely vital way of communicating with your contacts; be it co-workers or customers. With the technology today, much of our communication is done through writing on some sort of device. With that taken into consideration writing skills are essential in achieving career goals. Aside from work, writing is used in many other areas as well. Writing being of the importance that it is in today’s professional world, I would like to become more fluent in writing professionally. As a current student enrolled in Business Administration writing will be even more important in my career than it is now. There is always room for improvement. I would like to expand my knowledge of professional and/or formal writing. The more I am aware of the better I will become at writing. The better I am at writing the better I will be at my job. In grade schools you learn about punctuation and such. I would like to take that basic knowledge and expand it. Ideally, I would like to leave this class being able to place sentences and punctuations together in such a way that it is intriguing. Intriguing in such a way that my point is understood and persuasive if necessary. Given the career field I have chosen, it will be paramount that I can take a stand and make a difference. Any one person is able to take a stand. However...
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...My College Composition class will help me exceed in my future career. I want to understand how to compose a correspondence. My current position as an executive assistant requires me to understand and compose correspondences. I will not making my own papers but correcting and proof reading. This writing class is going to give me the knowledge I will need to know how to complete my papers. My goals as a writer are to understand the writing better and to get a sense of direction. I don’t understand the format of writing, or the concept of making it formal. My writing skills are not that great, but I do try and make sense of what I am writing. I want to better my self in this class, so I can understand the concept of writing. I want to be able to get the concept of writing out of this class and learn how to structure my writing to make it sound formal and professional. I lack the professionalism of writing and making it sound professional. Hopefully this class will help me understand how to make my writings better and more interesting. I also want to learn a little bit on grammar and the structure of a sentence. I am not going to be writing a book or anything but I will need to be original and kind of creative in my papers. My goals in this class will to be able to learn from it and to move on to composition 2 and combine both of them together and move on with my writings. I know these classes will help me in my future job employment; it will even help me...
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...Reflection – “My Journey as a Writer” * Assignment 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...
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...My Knowledge of Writing My experience with writing is minimal and has been composed of mostly operational and personal levels. I am excited about taking EN105 and expanding upon the writing skills I learned during my military career. Writing has only recently become a favorite subject for me. I attribute to this to my experience with how different people communicate and how each culture has differentiated itself from the others. Communication is important to me, but more important are the subtleties of different dialects and how each society communicates through its own unique rhetoric. I feel as if no one was able to articulate the importance of English during my high school years. This is why I am leaning strongly toward a degree in English. Maybe one day, I can be the individual who helps others like myself understand the importance of English and communicating through writing. For me, the process of learning to write has mostly involved the use of military rules, guidelines, and standards. I have learned that writing in the military is quite different from writing as an EN105 student. The biggest difference between the two is the use of verbiage and rules when writing. This is why, in my previous introduction to the class, I stated that as an EN105 student, I am like a salmon. A salmon will travel a great distance and encounter what seem to be unconquerable obstacles, but in the end, it reaches its goal. I feel that this class will be challenging, and some of my obstacles...
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