beginning of my English 111 class, I was unsure of my writing skills for college, thus English 111, which is a writing class, was intimidating to me. I had been out of school for over thirty years, and my memory of my writing in high school is not so clear. So at the beginning of the year, Dr. Kennedy asked us what we wanted to get of our class this semester. It was not hard for me to say I wanted to improve my writing skills. The skills I learned in English helped me improve my writing in other classes
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After reflecting on the past six weeks, I’ve noticed that my writing has improved tremendously. Being a member of Eng091 has taught me many things. I have learned all the different methods of pre-writing and I have used each one, I find that clustering is more effective for me and my writing. Before I enrolled into this class, I wasn’t as familiar with transitional words as I thought I was. After reading chapter five of the Wordsmith book, I now feel confident in using transitional words and phrases
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college freshman taking up BS Legal Management. This E-portfolio encapsulates my entire writing journey of sorts in my ENGLCOM (Basic Communication and Study Skills) course throughout the second term of my first year in university. In here, you will be able to read about various ideas—from the meaning of the word “infinite” beyond the concept taught to us in our Math classes, to the causes of the Philippines’ lagged progress (no, it is not solely due to corruption), and, well, Korean Pop. With all these
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Scholarly Writing Skill Reflection What strengths do you have in regards to scholarly writing? What areas need improvement? • Formulate paragraphs with central idea and flowing information between paragraphs. • Clearly define topic for reader to understand purpose. • Use research for citation and properly formatting reference material. • Ensure usage of concepts from materials relevant to topic. I need to improve on my citation and reference aspects of paper writing. In addition
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and Rose gave up hope for having a normal son, Charlie continued to strive towards her approval and affection. His strong determination to learn and undergo the operation was a large product of his mother’s verbal and physical abuse towards him. In Progress Report 16, Charlie pays a long overdue visit to his senile mother. Initially, Rose rushes inside the house and refuses to let her son inside. In a desperate response, Charlie shouts to her through the door, “Ma… I just want to talk to you. You’ve
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trying my best to achieve. The two that I will use the most will have to be Unit 2, Manage your Time and Stress, and Unit 7, Goals and Planning. By learning how to manage my time and stress better will allow me to become a better part of the business community. In this manner by reducing my stress will allow me to better focus on the important aspects that need my attention. Learning how to manage my time came from the help of my family by allowing me to have time to myself to focus on my studies
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Portfolio Reviewers: For my major, I am taking many science classes and for that reason, most of the writing I have done in previous classes has been lab reports. I also have not had an English class since my senior year of high school, so I have not had to write many papers since then. In these previous English classes, most of the writing has been research papers. Comparing this project to previous projects in other English classes, I have had much more flexibility in the topic to write about
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are my instruments. I wield them not quite like weapons, but like gardening tools. They plant ideas, water them, let them bloom, flourish, and intertwine in someone’s mind. When I write these words down, they most often flow without interruption. Research papers, persuasive pieces, short stories, lines of poetry, college essays; I’ve proven myself to be more than adequate at expressing myself on paper. Yet, when faced with the challenge of writing about myself, I can never seem to commit. My junior
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1. 2014/09/29 ( New vocabulary/ phrases/ language structure I come across) Two weeks has passed since my first term of International Year One started. I attended many lectures in the first week, which helped me practice my listening and learn new words or phrases. After class, I liked watching English TV drama, such as Downton Abbey, The Doctor Who. Sometimes, when I heard a new phrase or word which I had never learned before, such as, "case by case", "turn away from each other", and "tear apart"
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Throughout my life, writing was always a challenging subject to me. Although I may not be able to write as well as others, I have enhanced my writing skills. As I was assigned to write a great amount of essays in this English course, I realized that my writing has improved immensely. This course has taught me how to write various types of essays, for example, rhetorical analysis, review, report, and reader responses. Every essay has different requirements and different components to include. By using
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