make an essay strong and not difficult to understand. Proofreading always comes last when editing an essay to catch errors and to take of any unnecessary parts. Grammar and punctuations is really important when it comes to re reading an essay. It is very easy to make a silly mistake while typing in a hurry. At times when typing an essay it might sound correctly, but when re reading you catch many errors. I have learned that grammar and punctuation is really important not just for writing essays, but
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that I was quiter proficient at writing essays. In high school I winged most of my essays and still received high grades, but I was taught in this class that just writing the essay wasn’t all that I needed to do. In the beginning of the class with essay 1 I just wrote it in one sequence, never stopping to try and reorganizing it. My organization skills were off balance and I had trouble with mistaking my corrections for revising. As I made my way to essay 2 and received an 81% I realized that writing
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I thought the essays for this class would be more research based. I like having essays over my opinion, but I think I am better at research type essays. I see that in the next few weeks we will be writing research based papers and I am quite excited for those. I think my best work has been my learning experience paper. I think this is my best work, because I had no idea of what to write about going into that essay. I went completely blank on everything I had ever
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class last semester, I developed a better understanding of proper sentence structure and developing my ideas fully in my papers. Soon I came to realize this information was the mere surface of the necessary tools needed to complete a well structured essay. This course pushed me to dig deeper into the world of writing. Every writing law
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Our summer reading essay is supposed to show who we are as a writer and a reader, and where we need to begin our odyssey as a writer and reader. Of course, mine does not exactly do that. The summer reading essay does not represent who I am as a writer and I am mortified to have written such a catastrophe. But, one thing it does show is that I cannot rush or procrastinate because when under a time crunch my work seems to implode. I admit even when given plenty of time, my writing pieces are not perfect
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College Essay Cancer is something you don’t really take seriously until it hits close to home. You might hear stories of cancer here and there but what can you really do about it? Nothing, nothing until you or one of your loved one has it. When that’s the case you want to search the world for all the unanswered questions you have. Cancer might be a common disease among the population but it isn’t common once your loved one has it. My story begins with my birthday, however, this specific birthday
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ESSAY A Essay A is a summary of the book A Separate Peace. It is a summary because, it goes through the book and describes the entire book and the characters. It is more descriptive on the subjects and characters. It talk about how Gene Foster went to a private high school in New Hampshire. And how he finds out something terrible that happened. And that the book starts out with a flash back. He meets the hero Finny and how Finny is brave, outspoken, athletic
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writing like a robot. I would write a three page essay in one night without even knowing what I wrote and turn it in. Tech writing got me to focus more on my work while maintain my other classes without feeling a burden. My first essay that I did in class was actually about what someone also did, and what I mean by that is they just wrote. My first essay also my first example in this portfolio is “The Confusing Essay” (pg. ). Now this first essay I answered what the professor wanted but I didn’t
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Genocide and Atrocities”. I chose this book, because the study of genocide is interesting to me, in learning about why it happens and how to stop it from happening in the future. In regards to the essay, it is going to be broken into three different parts. The first part, which is planned to be about half of the essay, will talk about some about a couple of the major themes of the book. The second part will consist of showing how the book is tied to content we have learned in class. And to wrap up the paper
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