...Writing Styles Pauline Gilmore June 20, 2011 EDU 623 Dr. Norman Rose My writing style has been describe by my family and friends as middle school level. I have tried very hard to work on it. It has been one of the reasons it took me so long to pursue my graduate degree. I knew my writing was not up to par for a graduate student. I tend to write the way I speak and my grammar is worst than my eight year old sons. I can use the fact that english is not my first language, but I honestly think, I have been so used to speaking and writing in slang so much it is hard for me not to now. I knew I had to start correcting myself and be more mindful of my grammar and language once I started teaching. It is still a work in progress, I try to usually keep my messages to the parents short and simple. I also write in cursive, that way when I misspell a word it is harder to see. My research skills has not been any better. I am still learning how to cite my citations. I cannot tell the difference between MLA and APA format. I tend to have a hard time putting what I need into my own words and summarizing. I do not like writing papers, but it is unavoidable in graduate school. After reviewing the research guides and completing the avoiding plagiarism tutorial I now have a little bit of a guide to follow. My strength has always been my ability to take notes. I love to write, I tend to have a hard time summarizing, so I write everything done. When I am doing a research...
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...These are very good step to take on writing. As in step one, I do believe the writer need to be passionate about the subject they are writing about. It makes it easier to write. You have be careful not to ramble because you have so much to say. I find this hard sometime in writing. Keeping writing simple will help the reader see what you are meaning to say. As I am writing a paper I find it is hard to cut things out because I have a certain way I am going with the paper. If I can’t see how to keep going that way and cut stuff out it is hard. Sometime I have to cut everything out but the subject and really think about what I want to say. I slowly add things in. Therefore this is where step 6 comes in, say what you mean. This is sometimes...
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...the essential characteristics and functions of language, especially in relation to the English language Define the Caribbean community and identify language-related issues that affect communication in one or more language communities in the Caribbean (READ) Distinguish academic writing from other kinds of writing Decode meaning in samples of academic writing Respond critically to a variety of texts, identifying the rhetorical context and evaluating rhetorical strategies (WRITE) Assess the needs of their audience and summarise material appropriately Engage in various stages of the writing process and write an effective documented expository essay Consult the Internet, library databases and other information sources for research and use information appropriately in assignments Use approved citation and documentation techniques to incorporate information from credible sources (SPEAK) Present ideas individually and in groups Discuss and critically evaluate oral presentations and written passages RECOMMENDED MATERIALS: (All books listed are available at the University Bookshop except where otherwise indicated.) Hodge, M. (1997). The knots in English. Wellesley, MA: Calaloux. (Available in The Writing Centre) Kirszner, L., & Mandell, S. (2010). The brief Wadsworth handbook (6th ed.). Boston: Wadsworth. Lalla, B. (1998). English for academic purposes study guide. St. Augustine (Trinidad): UWIDEC. Simmons-McDonald, H., Fields,...
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...My attitude towards writing is both positive and negative. I enjoy writing for many positive reasons. One reason is being able to effectively communicate with disabled people. Werther someone is death or blind using braille writing is a way we all can communicate with each other. Another positive reason is using free writing which is a good way to relax your mind. Writing gives you a outlet on paper when you don't have someone to speak with. Writing essays can be used to learn more about ones self. When you apply to a university or company you get a chance to write and show your abilities and what you can contribute to. Writing your answers essay form will let you state your case more fully than other sections of an application. It can provide the evaluator with better insight about you and how you differ from other applicants. What I like most about writing is that it is another good way to communicate. Negatively speaking on writing I have a hard time writing essays. I try to hard to remember what I have read about a topic. My essays usually end up sounding cliché from what I have read. I have a hard time putting what I have read into my own words. It's my good idea to read my essay's out loud when I'm done with it. I try to pick up some pattern or neat idea that i hadn't noticed hoping to change my cliché words around. Other times if I don't like the topic I end up losing focus and going off topic. Maintaining the status quo from other great literature works of art is...
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...I have positive experiences with writing because I read a lot and I think that reflects in my writing and makes it writing easier. One thing I have learned from reading many books is to have my writing authentic and unique because those are the writings that stick with you. I have written a research paper, persuasive essays, book reports, and a reflection paper. One of my mistakes in writing is that I don’t know how to stop. I used to write very long stories in elementary school and my teacher had told my parents that I ramble a lot in my writing. Ever since, I’ve tried to control that and I try to write clearly and concisely without making it too repetitive or redundant. I like when I can essentially “hear my voice” when I read my writing, which is why as much as I do respect and appreciate criticism on my papers, sometimes I find it hard to change my writing because I want it to sound the most like me....
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...Most academics, including administrators, spend much of our time writing. But we aren't as good at it as we should be. I have never understood why our trade values, but rarely teaches, nonfiction writing. In my nearly 30 years at universities, I have seen a lot of very talented people fail because they couldn't, or didn't, write. And some much less talented people (I see one in the mirror every morning) have done OK because they learned how to write. It starts in graduate school. There is a real transformation, approaching an inversion, as people switch from taking courses to writing. Many of the graduate students who were stars in the classroom during the first two years—the people everyone admired and looked up to—suddenly aren't so stellar anymore. And a few of the marginal students—the ones who didn't care that much about pleasing the professors by reading every page of every assignment—are suddenly sending their own papers off to journals, getting published, and transforming themselves into professional scholars. The difference is not complicated. It's writing. Rachel Toor and other writers on these pages have talked about how hard it is to write well, and of course that's true. Fortunately, the standards of writing in most disciplines are so low that you don't need to write well. What I have tried to produce below are 10 tips on scholarly nonfiction writing that might help people write less badly. 1. Writing is an exercise. You get better and faster with practice. If you...
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...“ why essay writing is hard ?” For many people writing is frustrating and many students have trouble writing anything. Sometimes students take extra lessons to just be a good. We all know how boring writing an essay can be and how hard to make a good one. In this essay I will talk about the difficulties we face while writing essays. The main reason that makes writing hard is that we focus on the external rewards like getting A or just to get the professor’s approval , and when you focus on getting these things your brain stops being creative and come up with ideas so that’s why it becomes boring . However that means when you are trying to write a perfect essay but in the same time thinking of getting an A , that will make you stop being creative in writing . Another good reason is lack of focus. Many students when they start writing ,their mind starts thinking about a lot of information . After that they forget about writing and start to think about their life or something happened to them in the past , so when they go back to writing they forget everything and they delete what they wrote to start again. Beside its being lack of focus it’s a waste of time too. The last reason is a bad environment. Some people love writing in a specific place in their room , they think their creative ideas are born there , and some people can’t just bring a pen and a paper to write because they are used to write in their computer . Others can write when its quiet, loud, or at any time of...
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...Freeman Bailey Freeman Hensley English 11/ Fourth Period 05 March 2018 Part 14: Rough Draft #2 In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” she writes, “If you would pray,’ the old lady said, ‘Jesus would help you.’ This particular quote shows how Flannery O’Connor combined two themes into one concept, by taking the theme of God and Religion and Good vs. Evil and adding that into one character’s personality. O’Connor also shows, in this quote, the theme Good vs. Evil for how the grandmother attempted to convert the misfit to her religion instead of going through with his evil scheme. O’Connor’s writing style was very unique and one of a kind. She carefully drew out every character and theme to match perfection. Flannery O’Connor adds a major affect to her writing by using Themes, Literary devices, and a specific style in her fiction. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, she perfectly includes her religion into her writing always making it a key point in her stories. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Red Sammy’s wife said “It isn’t a soul in this green world of God’s that you can trust,”(O’Connor 142). In this...
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...Before I took the class ENG 101, I struggled so much with writing. From sending simple emails to people, to sending texts to my children, I had always had a hard time collecting my thoughts and writing them down. I did not think I learned very much from this class, yet I was expecting it to be very difficult for me. Because of my origin, my native language is not English. When I speak, my thoughts usually come to me in Amharic, my native language. It used to be so challenging for me to speak English because I would mix up the two languages, but because of all the writing exercises and assignments, we’d had to do this semester, I don’t struggle with that anymore. ENG 101 completely changed the way I see the English language and writing. The first class I took at Shelton State was Basic English. Taking that class significantly improved the way I spoke English, but it did not do a lot to help my writing skills. This semester I signed up for ENG 101 hoping to improve my reading and writing skills. When I started the class, my expectations were pretty high. I wanted all A’s and to be a great writer, but most of...
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...trying to read and write. I was never really the best at reading or even comprehension. When writing I would always stray off topic and not even answer the prompt. Because of these obstacles, I had to work hard to overcome them achieve success. In fifth grade I was one of the brightest and most advanced students in math. However, I never really focused on English Language Arts, as I was so enthralled with math. One day, my teacher put up a prompt asking about my Thanksgiving experience. When I had raised my hand to...
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...Final Draft Arabic language is harder than English. What makes a language to be difficult to learn? It is possibly very popular question examined by linguists. To define difficulties of a language, it can be meant by hard grammar, difficult technique of writing, pronunciations and it also depends on a person's native language etc. In comparison of difficulties in learning, Arabic language is harder than English because it has hard grammar and vocabulary, complex pronunciations and difficult writing system. Firstly, Arabic is harder to learn than English because it needs to learn new script, new consonant sounds, different syntax and also vocabulary with some cognates. Arabic grammar is harder than English because Arabic verb conjugations are very involved and there are lots of forms for everything. Arabic has many inconsonant roots, so rare possible to understand which words are related with which meaning. For example, The starting and the ending of words change depending on who is telling and what the speaker are referring to and whether they are asking question or not. The results of these complications that the alphabets do not replicate what they speak and what they mean. Complexities of Arabic grammar and vocabulary are much more than English grammar and vocabulary. This apparently makes English is easier than Arabic. Secondly, Arabic language sound system is completely different. Arabic pronunciation contains a good range of individual throaty sounds which are formed...
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...What do you think about cursive writing? There has been a lot of discussion about cursive writing. We will consider both sides of this debate. There are many people who support cursive writing. The people who support cursive writing claim that in a study psychologists found it is better to learn if you hard write instead of type. They also state that writing in crusive helps with motor-skills and stimulates both sides of the brain. Another point the mention is writing in cursive helps make your brain stronger and reduce having brain injury or weakness. These are valid concerns. On the contrary, there are many people who disagree with cursive writing. Opponents of cursive writing believe that a survey revealed that only thirty...
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...Title: My Attitude Towards Writing By: Richard Bill Magee Date: 03/ 31/2010 My attitude towards writing is both positive and negative. I enjoy writing for many positive reasons. One reason is being able to effectively communicate with disabled people. Werther someone is death or blind using braille writing is a way we all can communicate with each other. Another positive reason is using free writing which is a good way to relax your mind. Writing gives you a outlet on paper when you don't have someone to speak with. Writing essays can be used to learn more about ones self. When you apply to a university or company you get a chance to write and show your abilities and what you can contribute to. Writing your answers essay form will let you state your case more fully than other sections of an application. It can provide the evaluator with better insight about you and how you differ from other applicants. What I like most about writing is that it is another good way to communicate. Negatively speaking on writing I have a hard time writing essays. I try to hard to remember what I have read about a topic. My essays usually end up sounding cliché from what I have read. I have a hard time putting what I have read into my own words. It's my good idea to read my essay's out loud when I'm done with it. I try to pick up some pattern or neat idea that i hadn't noticed hoping to change my cliché words around. Other times if I don't like the topic I end up losing focus and going off...
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...While writing “Bermudas,” this proved to be an especially big problem due to the fact that poems are filled with hidden meanings that would normally go unnoticed unless it was analyzed on a deeper level. Another weakness I had showed itself while I was writing “The Tempest and Source Material” and “Heart of Darkness and Postcolonial Criticism”. While writing these two essays I had to find effective ways to use quotations from both the text and source material to make my point. This was hard because I found it a tad hard to fully utilize the quote in a way that it supported or complimented my claims. It was when you taught us to take a section or quote from the work and break it down line by line paying attention to the individual words and language that the author used that helped me to choose quotes and analyze them in ways that could more fully support my claims and make my argument stronger. This method helped to make my argumentative writing much stronger and ultimately my analytical essays as...
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...interview. I called upon Marques for an interview and he agreed. Although Marques was a very busy man, he fit me into his schedule. He was in Atlanta on a business trip for the Honda Battle of the Bands and he arranged an interview for October 17th at two p.m. at Starbucks. I wanted to give a good impression so I was at Starbucks fifteen minutes before two shortly before Marques arrived. Marques walked in as if he had just left a business meeting. He was wearing a black suit, white shirt, black dress shoes, purple tie, and a pair of Calvin Klein spectacles that gave him a look that was hard to top. When I saw him, that’s what I imagined myself to be in a couple years. We both greeted each other. We got up and ordered caramel frappes and immediately got this interview started. “When did your love for writing begin,” I asked him. Marques begin to tell me that his love for writing didn’t just start. Marques stated sarcastically, “I think I was born to write. I learned to write before I learned to walk.” After saying this, I couldn’t do anything but laugh, which lightened the mood up...
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