My Self Evaluation I am writing this paper as a self-evaluation of myself as a writer and my growth in writing as a college student. College is something many people try to tackle in their lifetime and also a fear many people never tackle during their life. At eighteen years old I was one of those people fearful to become a college student and because of that I did not attend college until I was twenty one years old. When attending my first semester of college I thought that the English class I attended
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Reflections on Writing Composition 1 Kimalon Golston Professor J. Novak CM107-21: College Composition 1 June 18, 2014 1. Did you meet your goals? As I look back on how I first started in my writing class I thought okay, what and how do I get started on writing in a journal and what do I put into words about what I need to write about. It was a struggle for me and I thought to myself you have to put a plan in action to meet the goal I had set for myself. 2. Did you
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a lot in writing essays. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before and I have become more proficient in preventing fragment and run-ons sentences and I have learned to write a great complete argumentative essay. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before. I have learned to use subordinating conjunctions that introduces a dependent
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an essay paper physically graded by a teacher not only does it tell me what I did wrong but what I need to do better on the next essay. 11-15 – Automated essay grading can be more effective for some grade levels but not all of them. It can great tool for elementary and high school students because not only does it tell them what mistakes they made but it prepares them to complete college essays because by the time they reach college they should know how to write a proper essay or paper. 11-16 –
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William. “ College Pressures” The Norton Reader, Norton-Simon publishing. 1978. Web. http://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/univ100i/zinsser.html. Accessed February 25, 2016. In William Zinsser essay on "College Pressures," he discussed the different types of anxieties the students encounter. He explains that the Branford College students are in a different level of stress compared to the late 1960's college students. From his article, there are four types of pressure that college students
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about the fifth grade. I loved to write poetry and stories and that was the good moments of my writing when in school and we were able to just free write it was always the best times of my education. The bad times had to be when I was unable to keep my writing up to teacher’s standards far as punctuation. I am a frequenter of run-on sentences. Every time I wrote a paper I can remember the countless times that I sat in my seat waiting on my teacher to pass back papers and getting points off for run-on’s
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Tuesday 4 November 2014 9.00 am to 11.15 am 4 H For this paper you must have: Sources 1, 2 and 3 which are provided as a loose insert inside this question paper. 6 TOTAL Time allowed 2 hours and 15 minutes A Instructions Answer all questions. Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. Do all rough
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assignment I have been instructed to reflect back to the unit two assignment and unit three journal entry. In the unit two assignment we were asked to discuss our goals for college composition 1. Looking back at the goals I set for myself I do believe that I have achieved my goals. My goals were to learn how to correctly write an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. This course has helped me reach those goals. Strategies I used to achieve those goals was doing research, using the reading
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Then we started to research anything bad that the company had been going through in the last couple of years. We stumbled upon something that caught our eyes. So, we went with that. To keep it short, we did a whole bunch of research on the company and how bad it was ethically. When we had all the information we needed we made a little power point presentation as assigned. This is where the skills of oral commutation come out. Whenever you are giving a speech with something in the background, you cannot
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First Person: Writers using the first person point of view write from their own point of view: “I believe” “I think” “I saw” To understand first person perspective, imagine you are telling your friend about your day. Usually, when you tell someone about your own experiences, you use the first person perspective because it tells the reader what you thought, felt or did. Second Person: Writers using second person point of view write from the reader’s point of view: “You believe” “You think”
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