things especially in my English 1101 class. I thought I knew everything there was to know about writing when I came in on my first day, but I was very wrong. My professor assured me that there is much more to writing than just putting words down on paper. Knowing all of this, I have now learned how to improve on my writing skills, how to write better grammatically correct sentences, incorporate quotes and research and give as well as get criticism. When I came into this semester as a freshman I was
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formal academic papers. The main thing I've learned from this course is how to improve my writing process as a whole using correct grammar and punctuation, and creating better sentence transitions. My weakness as an incoming freshman was the ability to find my voice as a writer and develop a point of view so that I could expand on the things I wanted to say in my writing. I could create all these ideas for my paper, but as soon as I began to write, I would get stuck leading my paper into this big mess
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My hand was trembling as I reached for the paper that my AP English Language and Composition teacher handed me. I flipped it over to reveal a three circled at the top; this score was one of the many threes I received on a “timed write”, which are graded on a scale of 1 to 9. This class was one of the most significant challenges I have ever faced. By struggling with adversity in this class, I learned that one must go through a storm to be able to grow and become stronger than she ever can imagine
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struggled with the direction I wanted to go with this paper, then ran into the time engulfing task of trying to capture the ideas that I had accumulated in my head into four pages. The job of capturing these ideas and organizing them into a comprehendible paper was no easy feat, battling between my free writing thoughts and my high school English essay rules, this took me 5 days, 4 long nights, and many calls for help to
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way to write a research paper using MLA formatting. Professor Feltey taught the class how to find reliable sources and the importance of evaluating each source to ensure that we are not using overly biased information. I was surprised to discover that writing a research paper was much more involved than I had anticipated. After completing my research paper, I felt that I had reviewed my subject from both sides and was able to write a convincing argumentative research paper. I approached my research
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limited in writing a research paper. Over the course of this assignment I accumulated a respectable amount of data and learned more strategies than I illustrated. I failed to apply concepts from Dr. Case English 3640, Writing in a Second language, class that I had learned. I printed out and read half a dozen articles conducive to the topic of teaching reading. I annotated, highlighted, brainstorming the main ideas, while considering the supporting ideas that can work in my paper. I drew mind maps, four
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Caroline Madamba September 1, 2015 ENG 22 My Strengths and Weakness In this paper, I will write about my strengths and weaknesses. By writing this paper will give me an overview of what I need to work on and what I am best at. I can honestly say there’s not much I’m good at when it comes to writing. Growing up, English classes were always a little challenging for me. Even though I have more weaknesses than strengths, I plan on focusing and progressing in what I need to work on. There’s always
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1. Prepare a list of review vocabulary words. 2. Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper. 3. Organize the pieces like bundles, 2 bundles, 2 sets of identical words. 4. Divide the class into 2 teams. get them to make creative team names. 5. Distribute each list of words to both teams. every student on each team should have a paper. Both teams have the same words. 6. When you call a word, 2 students should stand up, one
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online learning and Traditional classroom setting. They also listed the differences between the online classroom and the traditional classroom. The steps one would take to prevent planned cheating are to have more confidence in oneself when writing papers, also having enough time to complete the assignments on time. As for steps for the panic cheating it was concluded that this form of cheating did exist in online learning as this practice is more reserved for the classroom setting For the second
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are no longer expected to write papers but type them up; Papers are no longer expected to be just writing but integrated with pictures and graphs; Projects have also changed from who can learn the most to who can make it look good. Computers have revolutionized education, but not without a cost. The cost is the quality of education some students receive. Computers take time students would normally use reading and researching so that they can make their project or paper more attractive. Time is taken
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