In a group with Anna Duncan, Nina Zhu and myself, we read the poem “Outbound” by Greg Williamson. We took the same strategy that was used when we deciphered the poem “On my First Son” by understanding the poem line by line. Going line by line, we were able to understand our assigned poem and have a conclusive idea for the meaning of the poem. As a group, we originally thought we had understood the poem, right before we moved on Nina and I decided to go through the line and really comment about difficulties
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When you think of literacy your first thought most likely goes straight to reading and writing, but that is not the only thing that is literacy. Literacy is often only associated with reading and writing, but in reality, it defines a plethora of things in our daily lives. Literacy’s true definition can be found within yourself because literacy and music are related, and you decide what music means to you and what kind of music you will listen to. Regardless, whether it is listening or creating music
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For me, reading has never been a thing I've necessarily wanted to do. Sure when I was little it was a good way to keep me entertained but as time has gone on and technology has grown, reading has become more of a chore. When I was younger I thought of reading as an okay thing. It wasn't terrible and it wasn't something I dreaded doing. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become less and less fond of books. There's a good chance that my liking of literature has decreased because when you get older the books
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Newspapers, the traditional role as a discriminator of news and information provided a ready source of fun learning activities. It has bridged the gap between the traditional textbook and the real word becoming a valuable educational resource regardless of the subject that is being taught (Krashen, 1993). The contents in the newspapers affected pupils and the world in which they live. It can be more interesting and easier for them to relate what they have learnt in class to what is happening beyond
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Over the years my experience and improvement in writing has cultivated me into a person I believe would prosper in the Humanities program. The ability to write well and in a way that is coherent to those reading your work is an important skill no matter what field. As I interact with my fellow students I make sure to be an effective critic and listener. This would not only help my peers work but my own writing as well as I am paying attention to techniques as well as errors. As I am interacting with
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The information learned in English 111 will have a major impact in my life. This class was created to teach students how to write properly and understand different genres of writing and to emphasize the importance of writing. As numerous of us continue our educational paths, it will be critical to understand the fundamentals of writing, and I am positive this class will be a great stepping stone. Through the course’s heavy focus on annotation, writing, and analyzation, I hope to learn new information
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Over the course of the my college career in english composition classes I have had to write a large amount of papers and stories. Over the time spent in these classes I have been given the information to better my writing style and grammar. Although my writing first began developing in high school it is in college where the true test of the knowledge gained and the knowledge that was previously know is tested to the standards of the real world and what is expected of you from you future carrier.
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As a student I feel this year has assisted me the most writing wise. I was never really big into writing but this year has helped shape me into a much better writer and actually gave me joy when given the task to create an essay. My strengths this year have consisted of a larger vocabulary and I have also learned to lure the reader in with better introduction sentences. For example in my college admissions essay I hooked my reader in quite well with the following sentence “ As a child it was never
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I find three tips that I think it is useful in my own writing are: improve readability, use simple and informal words, and use bias-free language. Improve readability is most useful for me because this is the problem that I need to concern in my writing. When I write something, people sometimes have hard time to figure out what I mean by these sentence or paragraph. The way I organize the sentence and arrange the words usually make the sentence more complicate. Also, the grammar and words error cause
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Before entering writing seminar my expectations were that I would only have to write my college essays. Even more, I came into the class expecting to make my college essay the best it could be and that was it. I didn’t expect to have write any other essays, but in the end it worked out for the better. Throughout the semester, I was able to develop and nurture my writing skills. Not only was I writing to get into college, but also to prepare for college. However, my overall approach to writing has
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