Winnie Wong Writing 140 Maggie Flynn 4th October 2012 Assignment #2 Most Effective Essay: “SlutWalks and the Future of Feminism.” by Jessica Valenti Slut. This attention-grabbing noun is used throughout the world in the continuing feminist protest that has started since May 2011: Slutwalks. It all began when Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto police constable, made a statement on how women should not “dress like sluts” in order to be safe from being sexually assaulted at a safety forum
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Journal of Information Technology Education Volume 2, 2003 An Overview of Current Research on Automated Essay Grading Salvatore Valenti, Francesca Neri and Alessandro Cucchiarelli DIIGA - Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy valenti@inform.unian.it neri@inform.unian.it alex@inform.unian.it Executive Summary Essays are considered by many researchers as the most useful tool to assess learning outcomes, implying the ability to recall, organize and integrate ideas, the ability
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continued to occur in almost every assignment. However, the essays that truly contributed to my newer depth in writing were the Three-Source Synthesis Essay, Research Paper, and this final essay. To begin, I would like to say, the synthesis essay was one of the hardest essays I have ever written. Finding the comparisons between three similar yet completely different articles was not easy. I had spent around 70 hours on this particular essay and even turning it in was nerve wrecking. Yet, this paper
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this essay, the writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is writing to people during the time period 1782. The purpose for writing this article was to promote Americans as Europeans who have gone into another country because they weren’t happy with their current standing in their own country. While, reading this essay, the author’s inspirational tone would have persuaded anybody in 1782 that America is just as good if not better than European countries. Although Crevecoeur’s wrote this essay in 1782
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Center Writing a Compare/Contrast Essay As always, the instructor and the assignment sheet provide the definitive expectations and requirements for any essay. Here is some general information about the organization for this type of essay: • A comparison essay notes either similarities, or similarities and differences. • A contrast essay notes only differences. • The comparison or contrast should make a point or serve a purpose. Often such essays do one of the following: Clarify
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this journal entry is to select my favorite and least favorite of the 5 written essays in Chapter 13. My favorite sample essay in Chapter 13 is “Bad Dog” written by Rachel Mays. The reason I chose this sample essay is because I am a dog lover and it really sparked my interest. My least favorite sample essay in Chapter 13 is “Speaking Quiché in the Heart of Dixie” by Gabriel Thompson. The reason I chose this sample essay is because it was too boring to hold my interest. The details in Bad Dog were very
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discussed. In this essay, Hodgman aims to inform her readers about the inequality in different types of dog food, as well as to entertain and amuse. Hodgman is writing to a broad audience, one of dog lovers and owners, as well as those that may be curious as to what is really in dog food, or more generally the packaging and processing of mass-produced food of any kind. Language, description and humor are techniques Hodgman skillfully uses to create a strong, convincing essay. Within this essay, Hodgman continually
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AP USA Essay Writing Seven Steps of Essay Writing 1. Read and Analyze the question. • What is the question asking? • What is the question asking you to do? • What type of question is it? 2. Collect and sort the data needed to answer the question. • Brainstorm a list of factual information. • Create categories for this information. 3. Create your thesis statement. • The thesis is your answer to the question. It is the guiding
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The Intelligent Essay Assessor: Applications to Educational Technology Peter W. Foltz, New Mexico State University Darrell Laham, Knowledge Analysis Technologies Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado Abstract The Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) is a set of software tools for scoring the quality of essay content. The IEA uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), which is both a computational model of human knowledge representation and a method for extracting semantic similarity of words and
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attention is essential for achieving a strong essay. A successful essay stimulates the reader’s emotions through methods that influence him or her. Therefore, “Being a Chink,” written by Christine Leong, is an influential text that uses three different methods to effect the emotions of a reader. For instance, the use of cause and effect, in the essay, influences its reader through descriptive examples and demonstrations. In addition, “Being a Chink” uses comparison and contrast to affect the reader’s emotions
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