The peer that I viewed showed in many ways how on what the author is doing. In many ways his writing was focused on what might be motivating Sandy Hingston to write this. The peer puts effort in analyzing the text to find information that purpose. This varied from mine for I used more different approaches during the essay to reach the readers. The peer brought ideas on cultivating technology and motivation in to the writing to help show why text was made and for. I focused on the overall purpose
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Content: In terms of content, this essay does not seem to fully adhere to the essay prompt. Remember that we are required to find a major theme that relates “The House On Mango Street” to your own life. Make sure to begin incorporating your own life experiences to your essay before you run out of time. Furthermore, your essay also contains several MLA formatting errors that must be addressed, so make sure to review the formatting requirement for MLA. Organization: The organization of your essay
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After writing my module 2 assessment, I realized how much I had learned about Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. I now have a good understanding of what these Rhetorical appeals mean, and how they are used effectively when writing persuasive essays. Aside from rhetorical appeals, I also learned about the misuse of logos or in other words, Logical Fallacies. Logical fallacies are when a persuasive writer uses faulty or misleading reasoning when trying to convince an audience. There are many different logical
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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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