Since I first learned to write, I have been a writer. It has always been an incredibly cathartic and therapeutic passion of mine. Writing became a part of my job when I had to learn to write search engine optimized web copy more than 15 years ago. And about 10 years ago, I started writing how-to articles to help fledgling developers who were trying to teach themselves the ins and outs of web design and development, like I had done. (I swear this is leading someplace. Hang in there.) Then, just six
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of English and Jamaican descent. At an early age, she began writing poems and stories. Smith changed her first name from Sadie to Zadie at the age of fourteen; she wanted to draw attention to her individuality. Smith attended the University of Cambridge, where she studied English Literature. While in college, she met a man, Nick Laird, whom she later married. Smith began writing her first novel White Teeth; at the age of 21 she submitted about eighty pages of content to an agent. A bidding war
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are looking for. Although the genre is important it is useless without the writing process. The MWA-1 assignments have helped me organize my ideas and put them on paper. Before I began the assignments I became overwhelmed because I had no idea how to control my ideas, but I learned to calm down and write my ideas on a piece of paper in order to analyze them. I later began on my draft and revised over and over again until, I felt that my ideas were explained
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The Armory offers a Saturday morning enrichment program for students pre-k- 6th grade. These students show up bright and early to participate in an array of educational activities. Onc of the programs is called ‘Around the World in Stories”. This program encourages students to do just that. They begin by picking out a book that encaptures a place somewhere in the world, like the Eiffel Tower in Paris. After picking the book they spend the next hour, and subsequent saturdays, reading through it, painting
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hard work paid off and I began to earn grades in the 90s, and grades that were above 100%. Throughout this semester, I have improved my writing skills and applied those skills to improve my grade in this course, which turned from 81% to 95%. On my first essay that was about self-identification, I earned myself 85%, which was very much unsatisfactory. There were many flaws in my essay that earned me a disappointing
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Theodore McKenzie decided that he needed a fresh start. Armed with his handy-dandy note-pad and that wonderfully smooth pen he’d found under his couch last week, Theo began to write all of the required components for said fresh start. “Fresh start,” he scribbled in his handwriting, an undeniably feminine and flawless cursive, at the top of the page. Now, with this necessity behind him, he could truly begin his list. His list, which would possible guide him through his fresh start — or
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I start here, the very first page of a journal my mom bought me for my birthday.The brown faux leather cover has a black outline of light bulb insinuating it’s meant for ideas. “It’s for you to write all your wonderful ideas and thoughts in.” My mom says with a grin. I stare at her, attempting to put a genuine smile on my face. I reluctantly open it, fearing any sort of unnecessary writing. As I sit blankly gazing at the pages, I realize the knowledge I have come to learn and understand over the
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ALL through high school, I have struggled to put my thoughts on paper. I remember being told from you “remember put in your own words”. I truly had a difficult time completing this task. The annotations I struggled with the most. They were the most difficult for me. I still struggle with the annotations, but they are not as difficult for me as they were when I started the class. As a writer, I can write what I feel or what I’m thinking whether it’s exceptional or poor. There was a time where
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I'm an 8th grader at Shadow Ridge Middle School in Colorado. We were assigned to a fall reading project. Our literacy teacher gave us list of books to choose from. I’m glad I picked In Case You Missed It.I chose your book because it was the most realistic book of them all. When I was reading what your book was about I realised that this was the book that could teach an actual lesson to it’s readers.I’m glad I picked your book because it left me wanting more after I had finished reading it. The
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English because I would mix up the two languages, but because of all the writing exercises and assignments, we’d had to do this semester, I don’t struggle with that anymore. ENG 101 completely changed the way I see the English language and writing. The first class I took at Shelton State was Basic English. Taking that class significantly improved the way I spoke English, but it did not do a lot to help my writing skills. This semester I signed up for ENG 101 hoping to improve my reading and writing skills
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