have been required to write numerous essays and papers for various subjects, all requiring different styles and techniques. Before immersing myself in the writing process I would try and think of whom I am writing to and what I am writing about. I always assumed I was writing for the audience of my teacher. Writing an argumentative research paper is something I had yet to accomplish in my college career, not only was it thought provoking, this paper also challenged me in numerous ways, such as, understanding
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Since I never been interested in reading I never really engaged with what I read about. It was not until last semester in my English 111 class that I started enjoying what I read by actually evaluating the text in further detail. Active reading means reading something in further detail by evaluating and analyzing the text in different ways then just re-reading the text. By doing this you establish more support in your assessment. This hands-on-way to read, by highlighting or writing in the margins
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Hello my name is Jacob Lumpkin. I am 19 years old and am currently in my first semester of college. I am majoring in business and after I finish my associates degree at OCCC I want to go to OU and get a bachelors in economics. My favorite subject in school growing up was history because I love learning about how the past has affect the present day. My favorite thing to do is playing or watching basketball. I played basketball for 3 years when I was in high school and enjoyed every minute of it. I
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Through this project, I have learned a lot about rhetorical engagement and how to use it along with my sources. Originally, if I were to read a source, I would internalize the message sent, but I would fail to engage with the authors work. For example, my topic is on education inequality in America and where is sources from. Before this project, I would only read my sources and not truly engage with them. With this project, I was able to think in a deeper context. I was able to read my sources and
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In this first quarter, one of the main focuses was literary character complexity. The class instruction emphasized the identification of a character's multifaceted personality. One helpful thought process was to identify complexity through the idea of "______ yet, ______." For example, in the poem "An Author to Her Book", we identified that the "Author" saw her book as a disabled child. The '"Author" loved her book yet, was ashamed of it as well. Another focus of the quarter was on point of view
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I went through the Collection 2 test and the Collection 2 resources to identify the standards that are being taught and tested. Attached you will find the information I gathered. As I go through the Collections to update the tests and curriculum, I will create something similar for each Collection. You will notice that the document has some blank boxes. I can't fill in those boxes until I do all of the Collections and determine what standards are being tested for each strand of the curriculum.
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me, and although it wasn’t always easy, the class wasn’t as bad as I expected. English Composition improved my writing craft and the length of my papers. When I first started this class I didn’t have much of an idea on how to create a well-written paper. I’m still not at the level I would like to be, but I have improved. I used to think that every paper written for school had to be formal, and you couldn’t start a sentence with “and” or “but” or with the same word for multiple sentences in a row
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As this semester comes to a close, one of my largest learning experiences has been within my English 300 class. Not only did I learn a great deal about my faults in my own writing and ways to grow stronger as a writer, but I have also gained insight on the topic of work. I had the opportunity to discuss amongst my classmates the ideology and personal feelings we associated with various forms of work. These collaborative discussions helped broaden my horizons on what I had once deemed noble and rudimentary
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My brain is utterly discordant. Ranging from ways to improve life to ways to stand out in society. Anytime I find myself standing out in public-most of the time looking stupid-I feel a sense of uniqueness. In the same sense I find myself thinking differently too. While others are thinking in or "out of the box", my ideas/thoughts have no boundaries; they're uncharted, off the grid. There is no box for me. There's just vast emptiness. I'm not saying that my head is empty, but it's full of playing
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It's seven thirty at night on January 1st, and I just deleted the entirety of my perfectly good essay that I started weeks ago. In my now deleted essay, I was wrong in thinking my dedication went above and beyond my peers. My dedication to my passions and interests is definitely admirable, but it isn’t exactly unique among my peers applying to Johns Hopkins. However, I do believe that using humor to deal with the daily challenges in front of me is unique among my peers. Running is really hard. It
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