Essay writing (Assignment writing) Examples from Deakin University (Some editing – WHJ – April 2013) What makes a good essay? These are the views of one lecturer on good essays. “Follow these relatively simple rules and a student will produce a good essay” The student does the following: * Answers the question set by the lecturer. * Develops the argument logically, so that one point follows from another coherently. The essay should hold together and be consistent. * Indicates
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Internet or textbooks we students can sometimes put too much information in our papers and not have enough sited sources. Often times the cluttering of essay and point can side track or even confuse the reader. This is the reason the revision of essays is 100 percent fool proof and is essential to have an extra set of eyes read your own work. In the essay "Simplicity," William Zinnser states, "clutter is the disease of American writing" (129). With writing any type of paper the writer may run into the
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Being a man by Paul Theroux Paul Theroux is an American writer and novelist. He has wrote many stories and essays. One essay he is famous for is called “Being a Man”. In “Being a Man” he talks about his point of view of his life from when he was a little boy to being a man, and also he talks about his insecurity of being a man. In the essay he says: “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This quote is true because this is what is stereotyped everyday. Theroux
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Academic reading and writing are such important things for us (the college students). College students are claimed to be able to write anything that worth reading. In order to make a good essay, article, or even thesis, we should understand and have many concepts or knowledge. We know that there are many ways to enrich our knowledge, but the easiest way is by reading. In this internet era, we can always browse online news and articles by our PCs, smart phones, or tablets in every where or every time
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not involving her actual purpose. She doesn’t think ahead of the present, she isn’t thinking about her future, because she cannot cope with the fact that she doesn’t have one. In the beginning the least thing Ellie wants to do, is to write that essay. But after a walk in the
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Your Own Topic essay Janet Willman November 24, 2012 Choose your own topic essay has been one of my best essays so far. The feedback I got is I made simple errors like using brackets instead of parenthesis, and few comma errors. With this essay I was allowed to pick my own and I was passionate about the topic I choose. For my career I want to be a criminologist so understanding why people do things especially why they commit crimes intrigues me. The easiest part of this essay was choosing the
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I don’t believe you would have a good, well thought out essay. * Outlining, I believe this is very important for the writing process because it helps you write your ideas down so that way when you go to do the writing you have all the ideas and thoughts down right in front of you. * Drafting, this is really where all the thoughts and ideas come out on paper so that way you can put them together and perform a legit letter, essay, etc. I think that when you go through and write these drafts
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actual work scenarios into writing; it helped me to do a lot of researches. Regardless of searching and putting my work experience into theory, quality essay writing also accounts for the style of writing, with all the rules and syntax throughout the essay. It will not only reflect on the grades, but also gives me a chance to write a persuasive essay. How will any changed view impact on nursing practice? In module 1, I learned about “what reflection mean to me”. The article on reflection was extremely
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First Week Writing Assignment: Tell Me About You! Length – 3 full pages minimum Due: Wednesday, August 28th Worth: 25 points As an introduction to Composition II, I’d like for you to write me a short essay about yourself! This assignment will help me to get to know you and also to determine the course subject matter over the semester, discussing topics and issues each of you find important. In this assignment, I would like the following: * A short introduction about yourself, discussing
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6th Grade ELA Reading Unit 3 – Personal Essay | | |Preparing for Stage 1 – Brainstorming | |Established Goals: (the messy brainstorm)
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