unfolding to do. I dislike saying "I am trying to find myself" because my identity is not lost, it just needs more uncovering. Luckily for me, what I love to do and want to be helps me uncover more about myself. I want to be a writer. I may not end up a professional writer but I will always write, even if I am the only one interested in my work, because writing is my self-reflection. When writing, I sometimes get worked up into such a fervor that I barely know what I am saying. I just let my fingers
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project. I am sure this professional writing class will provide a very good platform for applying what we’ve learnt into workplace. As a college-level writer, I’m driven by my purposes when writing. As what I’ve learnt a lot about argument, thesis statement and position paper from ENGL101 last semester, the most important thing for a writer to do is present enough evidence to audience in a logical structure. I didn’t do very well in it because I constantly failed to focus on my main thesis, which
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Clutter, Audience, and usage with these three principal it made my writing more understandable. Clutter helps with unnecessary phrase that should be get rid of. In other words pointless, have no use to the writing. Audience to clarify who I, the writer am talking to. Usage is mostly based on grammar I believe the meaning of the word. Clutter getting rid of phrase or simple words and shouldn’t be there. For example in my essay, “This was the first full experience I had at home, that actually affected
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Dear meyzeek, By: Brian Scott My issues to all the kids in the world, kids your age don’t like to read or write. I say don't the authors make reading and writing interesting. Because I think kids would see the fun in reading and writing plus at the time kids would be gaining knowledge and having fun at the same time. First, do you know these kids out here on the street because they dropped out of school as soon as they could because they can’t read or write on the skill level they were supposed
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meaningless words are all just space fillers and are unimportant to the essay itself. He believes they are just a way for the writer to stall and drag on their work. There is a "half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.” Words are meant to flow “naturally” and at ease. Instead, modern-day writers, and past writers as well, have made the mistake of forcing words and jumbling them together defeating their purpose in the process. Now
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attacks the very way that a whole generation of English writers has grown accustom to writing and expressing their ideas, and I could not agree with him more. Orwell breaks these simple mistakes into four major types: dying metaphors, verbal false limbs, pretentious diction and meaningless words. When used, these mistakes create sentences that do not express ideas clearly and use common terms and phrases “copied and pasted” from one writer to another. This leads to a lack of originality and writing
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communication with an intent of efficient delivery of a desired message to the audience to achieve a particular purpose. Any barriers in the key elements of the wringing rhetorical triangle will lead to communication breakdown. The first thing I will do as a writer to avoid this disruption and maintain the logical flow of information is understanding the purpose of writing. Knowing what type of information that one need to pass across will help in searching the details that a piece of paper will contain and
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Writing my MFD went well, I did not have to make any major revisions and, instead, was able to focus on the details of my work. I continued to condense areas of my writing, revised to make the content less repetitive, and made sure that the information presented was clear and direct. An easy revision I made was to my mapping paragraph; I made sure to address the general sections of my writing instead of addressing each paragraph. Another simple addition, adding a popular source, was made to fulfil
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The narrative by Malcolm X has a powerful message and is significant for today’s society. The ability to read and write is the first step towards decent education, motivation and success in life. From the story of Malcolm X we see, that it is no easy task and one must be persistent if they are willing to learn. The author does not specify the niche he is writing to, as the message he is trying to communicate can be significant for anyone. However, from how the article is written it is clear that
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The best kind of books are the ones that really stand out and make you enjoy reading them even if it is for the tenth time. Daniel Handler has a rare personality which makes his books both unique and funny. Handler is a very unique author. Daniel Handler’s early life certainly shaped the unusual way he wrote. Daniel was born on February 28th 1970 in San Francisco, California, to Sandra Handler Day and Louis Handler. Louis Handler was a victim of the Holocaust. The particular way he wrote was influenced
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