Vinyl Siding Is Better Than Ever, Which Makes It A Good Option For Your Home Vinyl siding has become very popular due to its durability, low maintenance requirements, and ease of installation. Because it is so popular, manufacturers continue to improve on the appearance and performance of this siding material. If you haven't looked into vinyl siding in several years, it's time to take another look. It could be the perfect siding for your home. Here's why. Vinyl Siding Has Many Looks You have a
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For that station, Pranav needed to go through his writing and find the evidence he had provided when his teacher had assigned him the prompt. He saw that his paper did not have convincing examples to support his thesis statement. The evidence did also not add much value to his thesis because of its generality. Though, his commentary did connect his examples to the main idea of the prompt, but its weakness made
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Coming into my freshman year of college writing, I did not know what to expect. I was never a terrible writer, but knew I could always improve. College writing has helped me improve in many ways, and has let me identify my weaknesses and strong points as a writer. As the course went on, with the three different writing prompts we were assigned, I saw myself improving each time. Each person learns at their own pace and at their own time. For me, It took me a while but by the last essay, I feel more
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For the Midterm Project Part 3: Campaign Recommendations, I pretended to be a campaign consultant for Candidate Smith. My goal was to create a plan that will lead him into a success, in other words, help him to reach the presidency. Before the assignment, I collected and analyzed data from the 2012 Obama v. Romney presidential campaign. Which included a four video campaign analysis, statistical data from two swing states, and an analysis on the impact social media has on presidential elections. Thus
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Also, I used a lot of pointless information and went off track constantly. This was definitely not one of my better writings. We had a time limit and I let that stress get to me and I rushed my paper. That is something I need to learn how to deal with before the AP language final test. In our rhetorical paper we had to write, I wrote mine on Herb Brooks’ speech, You were born for this. I felt very strong about this topic and how to analyze it. I did a great job on getting the true message behind this
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“This serves as a lesson to any girl who thinks that what she wears on her body is no one’s concern but her own” (local satire piece). This sentence is not necessarily the best line of prose in my collection it is however both my favorite line and a reflection of a subgoal I was working on for this writing portfolio. This subgoal puts emphasis on my voice as a writer and how I want my writing to be perceived by my audience. I wanted a distinguishable voice and this line of prose has both a personal
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In "punk power in the first year writing classroom", Optimism One addresses a wide variety of readers. First he is addressing first year writing students. He gives them a guideline as to how to create a well written piece. he also addresses writing instructors, he encourages them to break away from a standard and let the students write in their own format. Lastly the readers of his piece may also be some who want to learn who to write and are looking for different approaches. Most of these readers
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Over the course of the semester I personally feel that I have developed as a writer. Throughout the essays I wrote, there is a common pattern of errors I made, ranging from poor choice of words to poor sentence structure. Overall I feel my biggest weakness in writing is putting my thoughts into words and being able to clearly express my ideas. I often find myself thinking one thing, but writing it with poor choices of words. After looking through all of the revisions, I do feel I have a better grasp
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Is there a special way to read? One may think reading is as simple as opening the book, skimming the words once, and then you're done. However, that's not the case and reading requires a sufficient amount of diligence. In college you don't merely read, but you also analyze, understand, remember, and respond to the writing. Chapter 3 of Successful College Writing expands on this topic and offers insight on the actions that accompany reading and responding to the text. College introduces difficult
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an apprentice in the print shop of my half-brother James. I studied arithmetic, navigation, grammar and reading every night after work and especially enjoyed the Spectator papers by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Yet I was not happy in my brother's shop. I secretly wrote a series of humorous letters and sent them to the paper, signed them Mrs. Silence Dogood. In these letters I poked fun at Harvard College boys, at silly girls, and at bad poets. The letters amused many people in
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