future career. Being able to write, read, and understand, simply becomes the basics to learning and getting through college, and I, myself am still acquiring the necessary skills to become a better writer. In fact, one of the goals I plan to accomplish through my college education is to become a better writer. I can read and understand what I am reading pretty good but when it comes to writing I feel like I still lack some skills and expertise, and certainly being able to write will be of great value
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off, what are paraphrasing and summarizing? Paraphrasing and summarizing are both indispensable writing tools. They are both techniques of incorporating other writers’ works or ideas into your writing using your own words. Although a writer must always use his/her own ideas when writing, sometimes it becomes necessary to use other writers’ thoughts and concepts. This may be due to one or more of the following reasons: • To provide support to your own ideas • To give reasons of why you agree or
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Time Management Regarding Writing a Paper Successful writing involves allowing enough time for each stage of writing. Each writer and assignment is different, but listed below is an approximate timeline to complete all of the activities for various papers. |Time Management | |A research paper may take 5-8 weeks. | |A long paper (10 pages) may take
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the main cause for it to be written and without the purpose there would be no need to write. The purpose of a paragraph or writing is why you originally had written the writing. What ideas, stories, or information you want to share gives you as the writer purpose and reason for the writing. Audience impacts writing because you should try to develop a certain relationship with your audience and accommodate your writing to the audience’s needs. Knowing your audience’s background, demographics, and education
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WRITING AS MEDIUM Why do I write? First, I write because I have feelings that are sometimes well said when written. You see, I used to be that someone who is really not outspoken. I keep almost all my thoughts to myself that sometimes, when I get the chance to say it, It gets tangled up making it harder to express. I used to consider writing as my way of letting it all out. As if writing is my refuge. When I was in high school, every time I feel down, I write my emotions to my notebooks. Sometimes
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way to let out the feelings held inside. Those who cannot verbally express themselves may turn to writing. Many ways to do that would be writing a poem, letter, song lyric, or a poem. In my past writing experiences, I have learned to grow as a writer like a small seed grows into a beautiful flower. A test we call TCAP was my first writing test. It was a short essay that we had been given which was required to be five paragraphs long. The worst part was the surprise topic; they would not tell us
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Final: Experience as a Writer Experiences for writing were fun when younger, became a little more challenging, as I became older and completely changed in the work place. Took classes on writing strategically and technical writing for my career as a Business Analyst. This class taught me to unlearn everything we were taught in school. When we were younger we were taught to write compositions with a minimum of 500 hundred words, as an example. Then you are told to
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of good storytelling. The writer should be able to describe the events a they unfold. They should also be able to bring life to a character of the story. In addition the writer should also paint a picture of the scene. To effectively create an image for the reader to make them feel as if they are reliving the experience. I think Another effective writing technique is uncensored writing. I like the fact that some writers get directly to the point. I feel that writers need to also
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[pic] Centre for Instructional and Technology Support Academic writing What is academic writing? Well, it is writing done by scholars for scholars. Thanks goodness I am just a student not a scholar hence academic writing does not concern me, right? Wrong! As a university college student you are part of a community of scholars. You are expected to be able to engage in the following activities: Read about certain ideas Think about certain ideas Argue about certain ideas Write about
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was the most effective between paragraph one and two. The writer of paragraph two was very effective about getting his or her point across within the first sentence of the paragraph. The sentence variety and rhythm in paragraph two enhanced and flowed very well. Paragraph two kept and held my attention throughout the whole paragraph. The author of paragraph two used various lengths of sentences while writing paragraph two then the writer of paragraph one. The structure of paragraph two was also written
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