On October 26th, 2015 I decided to bring an old paper from community college to the UCF Writing Center. I wanted to bring in an old paper in order to see how much I’ve improved since then, and how I can still improve my writing. The paper I brought was an extra credit assignment, which I honestly did not put much effort towards because it was for my math class. This allowed us to find many aspects of my writing that I could work on. Thanks to my consultation with my amazing consultant Julie, I learned
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Now I have complete, relevant thesis statements, in which contain specificalities to show my reader what I will be covering in the essay they are reading, “Bradford creates a foundation for American success and inspires people to promote the value of responsibility and freedom through his leadership, leadership qualities, and through the journey he faced coming into the New World -
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this essay, the writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is writing to people during the time period 1782. The purpose for writing this article was to promote Americans as Europeans who have gone into another country because they weren’t happy with their current standing in their own country. While, reading this essay, the author’s inspirational tone would have persuaded anybody in 1782 that America is just as good if not better than European countries. Although Crevecoeur’s wrote this essay in 1782
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The articles written by Pierce and Kirschner may be of different genres, however the use of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos is still very prominent in the argument that each is making. Upon analyzing the text for Ethos, the reader can find that Kirschner goes above and beyond where Pierce falls short. The piece by Kirschner is targeted towards a scholarly audience and includes many examples of statistics and credible resources. The end of the article includes the references used throughout his argument
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Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement
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After your thoughts are down on paper, you can go back and correct your mistakes. It is much easier to proofread a paper that is too long (because you can omit words or phrases that don’t make sense) than to try to come up with a perfect, logical essay on the first try. Most likely, when you begin writing, ideas will flow one after another. It is best to write them down as soon as they come to you (even if you are in the middle of sentence) because by the time you finish the sentence you may forget
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When I began the WRTG 101 class, I was self-assured that I already possessed the basic skills needed to successfully write essays for my lower level courses. I had already taken a 364-level behavioral science class through the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and did well on the writing assignments included in the course work. Because of my success in those previous writing assignments, I was confident that I would not learn a great deal more from an introductory writing course. However
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In my essays throughout the semester, I have learned how to address clearly state a thesis for a particular paper. For example, in my Libby Copeland essay “One key factor that I would like to address in the essay, how humans compare their lives with others on Facebook, making themselves lonely and sad.” This was my thesis statement I proved my thesis using some quotations and some of my experience. As a writer at first, I struggled with addressing a clear thesis and some ideas. For example, in my
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Throughout the course of the semester, my writing as drastically improved through analyzing and understanding the course goals, its objectives, the topics of the papers, and grading rubrics. Utilizing the syllabus allowed me to see what was expected of me as a writer, and how I would be critiqued in my writing, starting with the first paper which asked me to explain the moment or experience when I knew I was a part of a discourse community. At first, I did not understand what I was supposed to write
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found on the club’s website in along with the logo. After doing my process work I took the suggestions and I switched the logo and contact information around so that the flyer would be more effective. After revising my flyer, I started creating my essay with the introduction where I included Ann John’s definition of a community of practice and a description of my community. When I began describing the Genre convention and the social role I tried to include as much detail as possible while answering
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