Syllabus COM/155 Course Description This course addresses the key elements necessary for effective academic writing in college. The course begins with a focus on prewriting strategies and builds to drafting and revising essays. In addition, the course includes skill development at the sentence and paragraph level. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: · University policies[->0]:
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She needs to make her essay to continue her course but she needs ink for her printer. She walks around in London to find a shop with ink but she cannot focus. A lot of things disturb her. Ellie is a confused girl with a confused life with a lot of things going on. She is addicted to coke and she drinks a lot of alcohol with her friends. She is close to be kicked out from her course and her last change to stay is to write an essay. But instead of being home to make the essay, she is going to a
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Nicholas Carr has managed to write an article in an amazing way, in where he really catches the readers’ attention, even from the first lines. In this essay my focus will be the three appeals, the structure and the audience of this article. Nicholas Carr has managed to construct this article in a very remarkable way. He introduces the essay with sentences from a movie in which a supercomputer takes control of the world. Maybe Nicholas think that that supercomputer very well could be a regular
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UNIVERSITY ARLINGTON CAMPUS 2013 1. Identify the source (writer and title of essay) and state his or her most important point in your own words. Suki Kim is the author of the essay “Facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits” which is contained in her autobiography book, namely “Interpreter”. The origin of this title was stemmed from her real life experience. The most important point in this essay is her life changing. Suki Kim emphasizes that she was grown up in the rich family. Unfortunately
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In the story “How to Become a Writer”, Lorrie Moore takes the reader through what seems to be her own journey on how she became a writer. The story is told in Second Person. The way she writes, in second person, she seems to take the reader personally through her journey on “How to Become a Writer”, but you, the reader are the character. Moore writes about how “you” will apply to college, “you” will show up to the wrong class, and “your” mother will not understand this writing gig. Her style seems
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Essay Writing Skills This guide is designed to help students to structure their work. Like any written work, essays require careful planning, reading and note taking, appropriate academic style, referencing and structure. An essay is different from a report in that it is generally written as one flowing document that uses paragraphs to separate ideas, without the section headings, underlining, numbering and bullet points that are used in reports. Usually, essays do NOT have diagrams or
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Chapter One An Introduction to Academic Writing This chapter will explain • the importance of supporting a point in writing • the structure of the traditional essay • the benefits of writing the traditional essay The Structure of a Traditional Essay Diagram 图解 Title of the Essay I. Introduction • Opening remarks to catch reader’s interest • Thesis statement • Plan of development (optional) II. Body • Topic sentence 1(supporting point 1)
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stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot. The 19-year-old Ellie is the main character. Her parents have sent her to London to study but she doesn’t really care, instead she drinks and does a lot of drugs. But at the same time it seems like Ellie has two sides. Because she’s also stressing about the essay that she still needs
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Appendix G Peer Review Checklist* What is the main point of this essay? Why education is important to societies and economic growth and how education is the backbone for our society to be innovative, competitive, and how increasing our national graduation rate contributes to economic growth What is the greatest strength of this essay? I believe paragraphs 2 & 3 were the greatest strengths of this essay talking about the death penalty information and the prison inmates who did not have
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Essay about the short story A Gap of Sky By Anne Hope, 2008 The short story A Gab of Sky reflects on the topic of youth. It deals with the problems and possibilities of being young while living in central London. It is in the youth a person is able to create his or hers own personality and figure out how they want to spend their lives. It is also during the youth a person can truly be free to do, feel and think about whatever they wish, without having to deal with the obligations and responsibilities
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