...1-1 Do you like to spend time by yourself? When I was in middle school and high school, I got the impression that being alone meant you were a social outcast. At lunch, for example, only the "losers" or "nerds" ate alone; if you were surrounded by friends, you were popular. As a result, I was always anxious about being alone. Like a lot of young people, I worried about having enough friends and going out on the weekends instead of staying home like a "loner." I have to admit, though, that I spent more weekends at home than I did out on the town with my friends. As I've grown older, though, I think I've come to appreciate more and more having some time to be alone. Maybe it's the constant noise and demands of three children that helps me appreciate some quiet time to myself. In fact, some of my favorite time during the day is the time I spend driving to and from work (I live about twenty minutes from where I work). I often listen to the radio, so I don't know if I'm technically alone, but it's time where I can think and reflect on things that have happened during the day. It's often during this time that I have some of my best ideas, too. If we ought to be familiar with anyone, it should be ourselves. And spending time alone can help us come to know ourselves better. In this lesson, you will read some pieces that show the authors learning about themselves. You will see through the readings how the experiences we go through often teach us things about ourselves that we didn't...
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...the woman they both loved. This love triangle became the main plot in his novel “A Tale of Two Cities” where Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton both loved Lucie Manette. The pair of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay may also bear importance on Dickens' personal life. They look exactly alike that Carton saved him twice from being sentenced to death. It is implied that Carton and Darnay don’t only look alike, but also have the same genetic attributes. Though, many argued that the pair of Carton and Darnay is a doppelgänger; a pair that typically represents evil in which Darnay is worthy but dull and Carton is dishonorable but fascinating. Analysis The level of formality in writing should be suited by the expectations of the intended audience and the objective of the writer. Since I knew the type of people my English teacher and classmates were, I wrote this in a semi-formal style. This assignment was the epilogue to the novel our class was assigned to. As far as complexity goes, this was fairy a simple piece. Though I was in an honor class, I wrote this when I was in 10th grade; just after passing the NYSESLAT. Therefore, I couldn’t really make this more of a complex piece. Regarding...
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...Starting my writing process can be hard, through this semester of taking composition 1 I have learned that there it is always better taking your time reading your papers to revise them better, also I have learned to just get what I am trying to write on to the paper even though I may not make sense at first. There are many different ways for me at becoming better at revising my papers. One of the ways that I learned was though the this course, is by looking at each sentience indevisionully. This will help make sure that the sentience I am writing goes good with the paragraph and make sense for when people read it. One thing that I also have to work on when writing my papers is that, is being able to find my grammar mistakes. When I find...
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...Unit 11 Exercise 1: Reflection Essay Over the course of these last eleven weeks I have discovered more about my writing skills than I thought I had. In the beginning I had neutral feelings about how well I would do in this course. I’ve always known that I had good writing techniques, but have been out of school for over 10 years and wasn’t sure if I could still write like how I used to. When I was in high school I remember writing essays, research papers, and even memoirs but was only the basics of how to properly write. It gave me practice on my vocabulary as well as sentence and paragraph structure. It also allowed my imagination and thoughts to come out on paper and let the reader indulge in my stories. But how good of a writer was I? After taking a course called Composition 1 in college, I found that my writing skills; even though pretty good, had to be improved. I feel that my writing has improved due to learning how to properly brainstorm ideas and set up my research findings before I put them on my final paper. I also learned how to cite my findings which is a skill they don’t stress about in High School. Writing Essays, or Research Papers aren’t difficult for me, however I must say that writing a Memoir would have to be the most difficult because I don’t like talking about myself let alone have people know personal details of my life. Now that I’m at the end of my course in Composition 1 My attitude and feelings toward writing now has changed. I feel more...
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... |a plan of action to obtain them. While each student learns | | |differently, there are certain characteristics one should | | |possess. Some of the traits of an academically ready student | | |include responsibility and competency, self-direction, and | | |creativity as well as the desire to learn. | |What concerns, if any, do you have with academic writing and | I have very little concerns with the academic reading portion,| |reading? |though I do have a few with the writing. Due to my lack of | | |persistence and desire to know how to do this, I didn’t know | |...
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...the thought in my head that I was quiter proficient at writing essays. In high school I winged most of my essays and still received high grades, but I was taught in this class that just writing the essay wasn’t all that I needed to do. In the beginning of the class with essay 1 I just wrote it in one sequence, never stopping to try and reorganizing it. My organization skills were off balance and I had trouble with mistaking my corrections for revising. As I made my way to essay 2 and received an 81% I realized that writing in sequential order and not paying attention to the organization of my essay wasn’t going to cut it. I took the criticism on essay 2 and applied it to my essay 3. I wrote essay 3 from start to finish like I normally did because writing out of order still confuses my train of thought. After I finished writing it though, I took it to peer review and really tried to gain something out of it. By participating in the peer review, I got to get constructive feedback that actually helped me revise my essay once I revisited it. Peer review was a positive experience that truly helped me. By the time I finished essay 3, my writing process had become more thorough,...
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...Example Writing Answers for the ieltshelpnow.com Academic Practice Tests Below you will find example writing answers for all the writing questions in the ieltshelpnow.com Academic Practice Tests. Some of these example essays were written by IELTS students and some were written by an IELTS examiner in order to give an example of a good answer. Please refer to the question papers while you are reading these answers so that you understand the question that is being answered. After each of the example answers, an IELTS examiner has written a short commentary analysing the good and bad points of the answer. We hope this will give you an insight into how the writing answers should be written for IELTS Academic module. Academic Writing Practice Test 1 Task 1 In this report I will describe a bar chart that shows the estimated world illiteracy rates by gender and region for the year 2000. First I will look at male illiteracy for the 6 areas shown. The lowest rates were in Developed Countries, Latin America/Caribbean and East Asia/Oceania with rates of 1% (approximately), 10% and 8% (approximately) respectively. The rates for the next three areas were much higher and quite similar to each other. Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab States and South Asia had rates of approximately 31%, 29% and 34%. Female illiteracy was much higher relatively in each area except Latin America/Caribbean where it was only slightly higher. The lowest rates for female illiteracy were again Developed Countries,...
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...Autumn Chumley September 19, 2013 Writing The duties of a Publicist Since I was a young girl I have always been very outgoing, and I was never scared to mingle with the people around me. Often my mother would tell me that we are complete opposites being that my mom is very shy around those that she does not know. Throughout middle school to college this trait has continuously stood by me. In high school I was never afraid to speak in front of the class. While in the first semester of my first year of college I had to take a public speaking course. It seems as though everyone around me was always very nervous to perform their speech, yet I always remained relaxed and at ease. My public speaking professor told me that I had a natural gift. I have not always been interested in any courses regarding math or science, so I decided to follow a career path along the line of communications. Randomly, I decided that I want to pursue a career of being a publicist for a celebrity or very well-known business. I had confidence that I could handle the writing and oral tasks asked of me. “Individuals interested in becoming a celebrity publicist typically attend a 4-year university and major in public relations (PR), communications, journalism or a related field.”(Vault) “Coursework often includes writing and editing for mass media, public relations fundamentals, PR ethics and professionalism, media organization and communications in the information age. Publicists often have started...
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...Forrester learns to share his trust with a boy named Jamal when they connect through writing. Forrester is closed off and mean at first, but slowly opens up to Jamal throughout the movie. When he finally lets Jamal in, he starts to teach him how to write and talks to him about his life before Jamal. When Forrester is able to do this, they form a trust and friendship that stays strong even when they are separated. Whether that is by distance, as they go their separate ways or in death, or when Forrester leaves this earth at the end of the movie. Due to the strong sense of trust they have, when Forrester dies he is able to leave...
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...Device B. Thesis Statement People should have the liberty to write fanfiction, because it is an opportunity for enthusiastic writers to develop their writing abilities, it is an outlet for writers to explore endless possibilities in creating derived compositions, and lastly it is an activity to simply enjoy oneself considering it is a non-profit activity that brings forth intercommunication within a certain fandom, though sometimes fanfiction may affect an author’s capability to produce their own stories. II. Background A. Morrison (2012) states in The Guardian that fanfiction officially started, in the modern times, during the mid 50’s and 60’s with the growth of television expanding, more people wanted to create what-if stories with their favourite characters through writing. B. According to Schaffner (2009), fanfiction are stories ripped off from other people's work, so fanfiction is a free form, innovatory or derivative textual work that fanfiction practitioners publish online. C. Alter (2012) writes in her article that fan fiction is still a sensitive subject for writers and publishers; while some see it as free marketing and others regard it as a derivative dreck at best and copyright infringement at worst. III. Body A. Writing fanfiction is an opportunity for enthusiastic writers to develop their writing abilities. 1.) Buroker (2013) an official indie fantasy author, who herself started off with a fascination with the Star Trek series began to write at a young age...
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...Christopher Munson Professor Nick Beishline English 202 1 September 2014 As a college student, I walk into classes striving to gain the most possible out of each and every one of my classes. This is simply a subconscious duty that I believe most college students have. However, as we know, there are some students that walk into class on the first day trying to figure out what the least possible amount of work in their course can be, and still be able to slide by with a passing grade. My question to this is—why? As a student we all should be committed to doing the best that we possibly can. This is about the only negative feeling that I have when in any class on a regular basis. I believe that I need to improve in all areas of my writing, there is always room for improvement. Improvement in sentence structure specifically would be something I need to work on. Additionally, I am excited to learn how to write research papers by the end of the semester. This is something that I have not done since the eighth grade, and I do not remember much about it. In my past college English classes, 101 and 121, we mostly participated in short readings and then a paper to follow the reading. This was very annoying, doing the same thing every class. However, I did enjoy the discussion portions of these classes; seeing the viewpoints from many different people was very thought provoking at times. I had the same professor for both of these classes, she was excellent and fun...
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...Good reviews matter more to me than sales figures.” His books, In a Safe Town (https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Town-Garrett-Hutson-ebook/dp/B01MDQDN1P/ref=la_B01M4ORNHT_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525107637&sr=1-2#customerReviews ) and The Jade Dragon (https://www.amazon.com/Jade-Dragon-Death-Shanghai-Book-ebook/dp/B071ZYG9D5/ref=la_B01M4ORNHT_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525107637&sr=1-1#customerReviews ) are both recipients of five-star reviews. Interviewer: What in your personal life have you included in one of your stories? Hutson: I write a lot of characters with difficult familial relationships, and I draw inspiration from real life for much of this—though I carefully avoid inserting specific situations from real life, choosing instead to make things up that feel the same or share the same basis. Interviewer: Do you think your writing has improved since your first book and what would you change about that book if you...
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...Eric McCambridge ENG 360 Paper #1 September 30, 2014 The Differing Modes of Writing Used to Describe Winter in Night and None of Us Will Return The onset of winter was a particularly troubling time for prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps. Prisoners were offered few pieces of clothing and, coupled with the fact that they were often working outside, were subject to the harsh and unforgiving conditions of winter. Because of their poor protection from the cold, it was during winter that the most prisoners perished. Elie Wiesel and Charlotte Delbo, both survivors of the concentration camps, describe their lives within the concentration camps during the winter season in their books, Night and None of Us Will Return, respectively. Though they are both describing the same season and similar living conditions, their written accounts of the winter months differ greatly. When recounting his evacuation from Buna in the winter of 1944, Wiesel takes a decidedly more reportorial approach to his story. Delbo, on the other hand, focuses more on reflection when writing about the same winter in Auschwitz. While both are writing about the same period of time in relatively the same area in Europe, each author manages to evoke different emotions from the reader when describing their personal experience with winter. During the winter of 1944 in Auschwitz, Charlotte Delbo is clinging to life. She is malnourished and exhausted, yet she still finds beauty in her surroundings and...
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...Though feminism in the 'Third World' has simultaneously contributed to and occasionally benefited from the progress of nationalism, these two movements and ideologies often find themselves at odds with each other. Secular state-sponsored nationalisms mobilize sexualized images of the nation, usually presented as a 'modern' woman eager to serve the international capitalist economy. By contrast, 'ethnic' and religious nationalisms make use of images of the ideal 'pure' woman, filled with traditional values and untainted by the foreign, mainly Western, world. Within these gendered conceptualizations of nationhood, individual women are identified as highly valuable, though dangerous, guardians of national culture, thus leaving them more open to state control and vulnerable to abuse by outside 'invaders'. Power over women's bodies and behaviour becomes central to discourses of national identity, simultaneously justifying this control by the state while potentially leaving women with the ultimate ability to shape images of nationhood through their agency. As a part of their popular resistance to colonialism, many national liberation movements expressed their (generally sincere) commitment to women's social and political causes. Though women contributed greatly to independence struggles throughout the formerly colonized world, the process of constructing the new nation was a highly gendered one that saw the often quite sudden marginalization of feminist issues and women themselves...
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...Running Head: Children's Literature Task 1 1 Children;s Literature Task 1 Arthur Carroll Western Governor's University Children's Literature Task 1 2 Children's Literature Task 1 It is well known that the world is filled to the brim with a rich history in athletics, education, science, politics, and the arts. What is not common knowledge is the history and richness of children's literature and how it eventually became what it is today. Just like most things, what we now know as children's literature is nothing like what it was originally, it has transformed into something else entirely. Nonetheless, it has as colorful a history as it does some of it's own books. Before children's literature was ever even written down it was given to children in a less tangible way; orally. Prior to publishers like Scholastic and Golden Books existence, the technology to write books was long and tedious, especially if the author was trying to make many copies. So instead, children's literature was told out loud where many could hear it at once and the time factor for preparation was at a minimum. Once authors had better technology to help simplify the process of physical writing, oral literature transformed into written literature. It wasn't always computers or even typewriters though, written used to literally mean written. Like the transformation from mouth to pen, pen evolved to computer...
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