In my essays throughout the semester, I have learned how to address clearly state a thesis for a particular paper. For example, in my Libby Copeland essay “One key factor that I would like to address in the essay, how humans compare their lives with others on Facebook, making themselves lonely and sad.” This was my thesis statement I proved my thesis using some quotations and some of my experience. As a writer at first, I struggled with addressing a clear thesis and some ideas. For example, in my
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Throughout the course of the semester, my writing as drastically improved through analyzing and understanding the course goals, its objectives, the topics of the papers, and grading rubrics. Utilizing the syllabus allowed me to see what was expected of me as a writer, and how I would be critiqued in my writing, starting with the first paper which asked me to explain the moment or experience when I knew I was a part of a discourse community. At first, I did not understand what I was supposed to write
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found on the club’s website in along with the logo. After doing my process work I took the suggestions and I switched the logo and contact information around so that the flyer would be more effective. After revising my flyer, I started creating my essay with the introduction where I included Ann John’s definition of a community of practice and a description of my community. When I began describing the Genre convention and the social role I tried to include as much detail as possible while answering
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The real-world implications of writing extend far beyond what many in my generation realize. Writing well is a craft which separates one from the crowd. Writing today that is open to the public sphere has become extremely informal. I find social media partially to blame for this. My generation is in a rush to get every thought out into the world and we want to share everything instantly. When we quickly type out our thoughts and hit send, we hardly reflect on our words or consider the implications
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When I was reading “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, all I could think of was that it was exactly the way I write my papers. My first draft is always my draft to just get all of my ideas out on the paper, no matter how ugly the grammar or sentence fluency is. However, unlike Anne Lamott, but like Mercedes, I look at my first draft as a broad scope. I do not go into detail about specifics, I focus on getting the main points down. Since I write my papers like this, I also end up with around four
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My English Classes Journey Do you know anyone who was not a good writer and become an author after attending some writing classes? I born in Ethiopia, and I did not know how to write an essay before I came to The United States. When I was in my country, my English teachers gave me a good grade because I was one of the best writers according to my classmates. As soon as I came in U.S, I took a test at Montgomery college to get placed college level. the people who work in the test department placed
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I am tired but doing good this week. I am thankfully almost done with my midterms. This week has been busy, but I'm proud of myself and happy with the effort I have put into my studying. I have learned that I need to work on my time management skills a little bit, but overall everything has been going fine. My results for StrengthsQuest include the themes adaptability, responsibility, deliberative, relator, and harmony. I understood why I got responsibility, deliberative, relator, and harmony.
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better and well thought out. Additionally, the way you write leaves an impression on the reader. For example, if I had bad grammar all throughout this paragraph, what would you think of me? This is why I believe sentence structure is important. In this essay, I will explain what parts of the worksheet were particularly important, what parts I found difficult and what I can do to improve my sentences. The most important parts of the worksheet to me was commas and the semi colon. I have been taught some
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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
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Hello, I'm Efrain Gonzalez and I am a senior at Storm Lake High School. I was born and have lived in Storm Lake my whole life. I have two older brothers that are twenty one and twenty two years old and a younger sister that is a junior in High School. On my free time I like to play sports and just be physically active. The sport I put most of my focus on is soccer. Last year me and my team at Storm Lake were Runner-Ups at the State competition. I plan to go to College after High School but not sure
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