In “Writing and Teaching for Surprise”, Donald M. Murray, writes about the true, raw writing process. He explains in the beginning of the essay that writing is all about the experience and the process of how you end up with the final paper. He says several times that the best work is that which stems from hours of jotting down random, seemingly illogical sentences. And that by the end of the piece, those unorganized sentences have been edited and are now a fluid flow of words coming together to create
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The Anti-Stratfordian Movement Interestingly, there are many people who believe that Shakespeare was a fraud. In fact, there was a movie produced in 2011, titled Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerich, which illustrated a plausible conspiracy. Besides that, there have been additional theories as to who the works really belonged to, with candidates including: Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Christopher Marlowe, and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. The most widely accepted
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inconceivable. I never gave it much thought except that it was something enforced on us in school. I never knew writing could be a career—a doctor, a pharmacist, a teacher—now those are careers, but writing? I never knew anyone who wanted to become a writer. In fact, I did not care about any of that. I was more focused on hanging out with friends and watching TV, I never thought about what I wanted become. It was not until my freshman year in high school when I thought about making writing a priority
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Are you sick and tired of the system deciding what good writing is supposed to look like?Well, let's stick it to them and start being bad writers.Since we start learning to write when we are young we instinctively write in a natural way that is not accepted enough by society.Instead of writing in the person's original way we need to follow formats of those in the past that even Nabi Tajima(oldest person alive)wasn't born yet.The inner magic of performing bad writing is so easy if you just retract
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I have positive experiences with writing because I read a lot and I think that reflects in my writing and makes it writing easier. One thing I have learned from reading many books is to have my writing authentic and unique because those are the writings that stick with you. I have written a research paper, persuasive essays, book reports, and a reflection paper. One of my mistakes in writing is that I don’t know how to stop. I used to write very long stories in elementary school and my teacher had
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However, it was the past two years in Honors English Eleven and AP Literature in which I believed I learned the most about writing and grown as a writer. Both teachers delved into the deeper aspects of writing and made sure my peers and I were great enough writers to do well in any classes after. As aforementioned, most of my knowledge of writing has grown from my mother and my past two teachers. They have taught me how to make sure an essay does not
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As much as I like to think that I am a good writer, words almost fail me in describing Kristi Parker-Johnson, but I’ll try. The Miracle Worker, the Help, the Iron lady and the Giver scratch the surface of her multiple abilities and talents. For the last two years, Kristi has was my editor and mentor and the one who gave me a chance to write professionally. First, at the Killeen Daily Herald (KPD) and Texas Appeal magazine in Central Texas, and later at Out & About magazine and the Gilroy Dispatch
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There are many similarities and differences between writing skills in the book Exploring Language. By examining some of the authors in the book, Linda Flowers and Anne Lamott are the authors that connected best with improving my writing skills. Anne Lamott a graduate from Drew School, tells all her new students on the first day of a workshop that good writing is about telling the truth. Telling the truth in an interesting way is not as easy as it seems. Most lose faith. Their sense of self and story
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When you think of writers you most likely think of famous authors and books, but the career of writing is a lot more than that. The career field of writing can be separated into two major groups, one writing what they want to write and hope they get buyers, the other works for employers or clients and write on subjects their employer wants (Overview par 2). No matter what kind of writer they are, they all use the same basic steps to create their project. The writer gathers information, sometimes
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read other writing pieces to see how the authors built their sentences. This will help because most writers know more about balancing out their pieces. I believe that as you learn as a reader, your writing becomes smoother and easier to understand. I will also go through my writing more often to catch any words that I’ve used multiple times already. I don’t think I’ve developed independence as a writer, because I still struggle trying to write on my own. A lot of my writing is usually done when I’m
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