With help from an outstanding teacher, classmates, and friends, my writing has improved tremendously over the course of this year. The thing that helped to progress my writing ability the most was, and still is, all of the out of class work that Mr.Ferges has put us through. Although it has been very laboring and time consuming, I have seen significant growth in my ability analyze and write essays. Looking back at my work and seeing such improvement has also helped me to become more content with
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My Writing experience: The Good The Bad and The Ugly I can recall a time when I had to write a paper for English Composition I. I was attending Ivy Tech Community College at that time. The professor asked the class to write a paper about our major, my major was Early Childhood Education. This experience I had at Ivy Tech was not my first when it came to writing a formal essay, but it was just as nerve wrecking as the first time. When I began writing formal essay papers, in high school, it was not
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Writing with authority is another way of saying writing with craft. More than anything, authority also refers to believability. In order to create believability, authority requires acknowledgement on concerning the reader. For some people, writing in their profession is a blessing for them, while others may see it as a curse. Not knowing how to accurately write in sociology can define one’s credibility as a professional writer. Therefore, just because some knows how to properly write in APA formatting
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Idea-Mashing: 3 Foolproof Ways to Find Your Awesome Story Idea I hear new fiction writers say that they’d love to write, but they just don’t have any ideas for stories. In Stephen King’s On Writing he writes this about getting story ideas - “… good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.” — Stephen King, On Writing Taking two ideas and joining them into something
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As I went through these six pieces for my semester 1 portfolio I noticed that I have changed so much as a writer just the last few months. I very much enjoyed going back through each of my essays and getting the chance to correct any mistakes I missed in the heat of submitting a final draft. As far as my most improved piece goes I feel my Grapes of Wrath Essay had the biggest turnout. This is simply due to the fact that I had many grammatical errors along with some conceptual overlaps, and by fixing
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Prior to this class, all of my writing was excessively structured and the content generic. My former teachers did not allow as much creative license or freedom of expression; the assignments were merely to answer the given prompt without making it my own. Throughout this semester, I have consistently received encouragement to reach out and pull other sources into my writing and go beyond
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This is me, as I take a breath, staring at my keyboard, trying to rack my brain on what I should write. Who am I, three simple words to a complex question that I am still trying to solve. There is something about the fact of writing something “heartfelt and true and meaningful” about myself, that is much more scarier when you have to go to class the next day and face the people who read your writing. So, here I am trying to face the fear of others reading my work. Fair warning all of it’s just a
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future. The first essay that I would like to talk about is my Romanticism Fictional Narrative that I made in my 10th grade English class. The reason why I chose to talk about this essay is because it shows how creative I can without an outline. What I liked about this essay is how creative and descriptive it is. I made this essay by basically going off what my brain imagined. What I learned from this essay is when I do not use an an outline my ideas are more artistic.
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this course would also revolve around your own topic of choice, in which throughout the semester your writing would be based on that topic. I personally like this structure of the class, since I am able to grow as a writer, reader, and critical thinker while studying and researching a topic that interests me. My understanding of writing at the beginning of this course, I believed that the only way that I was going to improve would be through
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Recently, in my writing class, I argued, with success, the legitimacy of The Walking Dead as a literary work to my professor. In doing so, I realized how well The Walking Dead Franchise could work in a classroom. The Walking Dead Franchise (comics, novels and television series) can help a diverse group of learners understand and analyze character development, conflict, plot development, use of figurative language, dialogue, word choice and to understand how medium affects literature. The Walking
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