Three people that demonstrate courage and resilience are Dr. Seuss, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus. Dr. Seuss showed courage and resilience by creating books for children. His first book was rejected by 27 different publishers. Even though he had many problems he didn’t give up. The text states that “Theodor Seuss Geisel was a German-American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring more than 60 children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss
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learnt from this course. In fact, I believe that my achievements so far have superseded my expectations. I hope that whatever I have learnt in this course will form the basis for future improvements, and I will be able to make further strides in creative and scientific writing. While taking the English 120 online course, my attitude towards reading as well as writing has transformed drastically. For instance, after taking the course, I have learnt to look at issues in depth, instead of dealing with
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For English 99 course I did accomplish my goal to be better writer. I argue that I can do a lot better in this class because I didn't follow good rules of writing and use time wisely on my essay. Many classes require one or more writing assignments, from short responses to term papers, and I'll do better on these assignments. I didn't do well on my first essay and third essay. On my first essay, there's Salome fragments and grammar error. I didn't anyone to proofread. And on my third essay, I thought
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m going to get this huge growth spurt in my writing in one day and just magically turn into an award-winning writer overnight, but huge growth spurts in writing never happen overnight so that thought is probably unrealistic. Growing as a writer happens over time and through many trial-and-error pieces of work. No good writer has started out at their best, but instead, they grow into it because they learn new things in the course of their writing career. Over the course of
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Over the course of eleven weeks I have grown and learned more that I thought possible. Writing 122 has been an academic experience for me. I have overcome my weaknesses and developed a better understanding and feel for my strengths. I have revealed new weaknesses and strengths that I will continue to work on as I continue taking writing classes. Throughout my Writing 122 class I have accomplished a number of reader’s responses that have allowed me to reflect and express my opinion on the subjects
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Interview Yaneth: Did your writing improve since starting college? How? Basith: My writing has improved since I started college. I learned a lot of techniques to improve my writing the biggest one being writing multiple drafts. Also the feedback I get back from peers and professors helped express my thoughts and feeling in a way that others can relate to, understand easily, and perhaps change their views on things. Furthermore, I learned valuable information on sentence structure, writing styles
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One of the steps for my admission into the Bachelor of Science in nursing was to pass the language competency. I studied decades ago, and all my education was in French. I can speak, understand and read English however writing is not my forte. Writing the dreaded essay in English for the admission language competency was the most important moment in my English literacy development because it made me realize the difference between talking and writing also that through my career I did not develop
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In all my past years of school, I have always found English to be my least favorite subject. I have more weaknesses than strengths as a writer. My weakest area in writing is research papers, but in writing 1310 I did learn more about writing research papers. It takes me a longer amount of time to write an essay than an average classmate depending on the topic. It takes me longer because I often get writer’s block. It takes me a while to put together all the things I want to write about in a logical
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When students are asked if college composition courses are helpful, the answer may not be on the good side. In Bergmann and Zepernick’s article, “Disciplinarity and Transfer Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write’”, there were both positive responses and negative responses for composition courses. For example, “students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal and expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann, Zepernick 129). It appears some students view the courses
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Paragraph Writing When writing academically, purpose, audience, tone, and content greatly influence the writing to be delivered effectively. Purpose of a paragraph or writing is why the writer originally had written the writing. What ideas, stories, or information he has to share gives the writer purpose and reason for the writing. The purpose has an impact on the writing because it is the main cause for it to be written and without the purpose, there would be no need to write. Audience affects
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