We completed several assignments such as discussion posts, an essay using a data set, and a research paper. The most influential assignment, however, was the blog posts. Students were required to post blog entries targeted to their communities on Google plus. We researched our future careers and blogged about what was required of us before entering the
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Reflective Essay This semester of English A has really helped me grow as a better writer. When it came to English I was one of the people who hated it, because I knew writing was involved. With the help of a challenging assignments, Lexicon quizzes, and a guiding professor I can finally say I’m on the right track to a brighter future. I’m the type of person who loves to be challenged, and with the assignments given in this semester class I feel like I can accomplish any hard task thrown at me
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that assignment you loved the thought of but struggled to finish it? Thats this memoir. During high school in every grade, writing a memoir is required for English class, some can just be a paragraph others being six pages and more. This particular one, from my third year of high school, my eleventh grade English teacher assigned, three to five pages. The number of pages alone intimidated me, scaring me into my metaphoric shell, though I knew it wasn’t a lot of work if I work steadily and progressively
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home or business are moving toward a "paperless" office. Individuals are becoming overwhelmed by scraps of paper, and unorganized file folders, we are simply looking for ways to reduce clutter. Many organizations and institutions have at least made a partial move to a paperless office. They are doing so by; using scanners instead of copying machines, sending electronic faxes instead of paper faxes, and storing information electronically instead of in filing cabinets. It would be a myth if most people
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our children have open access to everything. Those born after the year 1980 are considered Digital Natives and have had the digital world as a part of their daily life. Prior to this all books were found in paper format. Since 1997, these books have started to be republished, but not in paper, in the digital world. When it comes to the digital world and digital books, there is a
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very good ideas, I think this a great aspect for me in coming up with ideas however one of my biggest weakness is trying to get my ideas down on paper, this has always been a problem for me since I can remember, so my plan moving forward, is to go to the writing center regularly, to try to get help putting my ideas on paper, so my hope is by the end of the semester to have improved on getting my ideas on paper to create a stronger essay any other strategy I use at home is voice to text on my I
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class after high school, please write about that one instead). My last English class was a bad experience. I did not have a supportive professor to tell me when something was wrong with my papers. 3) Describe/ explain an essay or piece of writing that you were proud of. What did you like most about it? Why were you satisfied with it? I was proud of my analysis paper that I wrote. I felt like it was the best paper. I was satisfied with my paper because I actually felt confident about it.
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made impressive grades and had a few of my pieces published in school newspapers. Needless to say, I was feeling confident as ever. Unfortunately, I wrote my first literary analysis paper and I got a C. I was shocked at first, mostly because I had never gotten a C on anything in my entire life—except almost in phys ed one time, which my mother never lets me forget. Anyways, at that point I was, to say the least, pissed. The next class, I met with Mr.
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would astonish you” (Sayre, 2012, pg 497). One of the oldest civilizations in history, China is for these reasons revered for its many achievements throughout history. Following Rome’s fall during the beginning of the Common Era, China emerged as the strongest nation in the world (Sayre, 2012, pg 226). China’s many dynasties each brought technological, cultural, and intellectual advances. Included among these are gunpowder, the compass, printing, paper, tea, acupuncture, spaghetti, the utilization
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was two to three pages. It was shocking to me since it sounded like an extremely difficult task compared to the other papers I wrote. Luckily, that was just a mistake and the prompt actually required a paragraph summarizing each secondary source. With that in mind as well as the example summary, I was able to complete the annotated bibliography on time. Similar to the other papers, I had to question the rhetorical situation first. Like always, the readers are my professors, meaning that I did not
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