Andy Nguyen English 122-05A 31 July 2013 Dear English 122 Students, First and foremost, I’d like to thank you for reading my letter. The purpose of this letter is to inform you on what to expect in English 122. For those who have taken English 121, you know that this class teaches the basics of informal writings. English 122 teaches several different forms of writings which include analysis, synthesis, and research papers. One of the main keys to succeed in this class is to come with an
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Writing Activities: Telling a Story in your English class This is an activity you can do if you're talking about interesting experiences, achievements, or telling stories. Give the students a few minutes to write about something that they've experienced in the past. The examples I give them are: paragliding or bungee jumping, meeting their girlfriend or boyfriend, a special vacation, eating an interesting food, etc. When the students are finished writing, have them put their names on the paper
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Mary Annamer C. Dela Cruz I – 1 S 8-12 AM I. Forrester says “do you know what people are most afraid of to what they don’t understand. And when we don’t understand, we turn to our assumptions.” What are some of the assumptions that adults make about Jamal? - Some assumptions that adults make of Jamal are, they think that he is not smart enough to write as well as he does, that a 16 year old black basketball player from the Bronx couldn’t possibly write like he did, they said it was too good
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“A Call To Write” Assignment I remember a situation that made me feel I had to respond in writing. Last summer I went to Japan for summer vocation. When the plane arrived at the airport, I tried to pick up my belonging at the baggage carousel. With so many bags at the carousel, I patiently waited my luggage to come out. As passengers started to pick up their bags, my luggages are nowhere in sight. Therefore, I reported the situation to the airport staff right away. I gave him an
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schedule, and rubric. In the end, Idecided to create a cupcake brochure for my potential business. Lastly, we had to write arecommendation report to a client for potential career.I think my personal project was my best work because I was able to be more creative and do somethingthat interested me. But I feel like every project could use a few revisions. On my cupcake brochure Iwould like to edit some of the colors I used on the inside to match the tone on the outside. I would alsolike to add more information
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Many college students face a great difficulty in writing and reading in an academic setting. However, if college students follow the right approach to this, they can overcome the problems of academic writing and reading. Stuart Greene, a composition scholar and an author of “Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument”, claims that academic writing and conversation share some similarities. Mike Rose, another expert in academic writing and an author of “The Politics
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pre-writing process. This is the first step in the writing process which involves the gathering information about the topic in concern. This include brainstorming, thinking, taking, freewriting and questions. Brainstorming is a process of generating creative ideas through intensive and freewheeling group discussion. Brown (2001) argues that brainstorming is a essential technique in writing which permits one to have an open
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What if you could only write with a pen, what if you would never erase what you have wrote. Those “what if’s” could all be solved with two inventions. These inventions are the pencil and the eraser. The pencil and the eraser are some inventions that have changed the world. But what was life before the pencil and eraser was invented? Life, before the pencil, was a period of time when people only used pen and ink. This way of writing is the writing style before the pencil. To go even further in the
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We write for a number of reasons. We write to get our ideas out, to get our imagination and what we want to say from our minds into pen and unto paper, we write to express ourselves. We write so we would be able to relate to others exactly what we want them to hear, and what may be going through our minds. There are persons who if you speak with them directly would not be able to say what they want accurately and writing helps get the message across just the way you want it to be heard from the
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Writing every day, taking my time, asking for help and proofreading are great ways to improve my writing skills. Notwithstanding the fact that I have never been a good technical writer, my academic background has more or less been focused on creative writing. Writing has never come easily for me and to be honest it is something that requires concentration, focus and a lot of sweating trying to figure out how to express my thoughts via writing. For the reason that I do not like writing, I do
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