In "punk power in the first year writing classroom", Optimism One addresses a wide variety of readers. First he is addressing first year writing students. He gives them a guideline as to how to create a well written piece. he also addresses writing instructors, he encourages them to break away from a standard and let the students write in their own format. Lastly the readers of his piece may also be some who want to learn who to write and are looking for different approaches. Most of these readers
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Over the course of the semester I personally feel that I have developed as a writer. Throughout the essays I wrote, there is a common pattern of errors I made, ranging from poor choice of words to poor sentence structure. Overall I feel my biggest weakness in writing is putting my thoughts into words and being able to clearly express my ideas. I often find myself thinking one thing, but writing it with poor choices of words. After looking through all of the revisions, I do feel I have a better grasp
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Is there a special way to read? One may think reading is as simple as opening the book, skimming the words once, and then you're done. However, that's not the case and reading requires a sufficient amount of diligence. In college you don't merely read, but you also analyze, understand, remember, and respond to the writing. Chapter 3 of Successful College Writing expands on this topic and offers insight on the actions that accompany reading and responding to the text. College introduces difficult
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an apprentice in the print shop of my half-brother James. I studied arithmetic, navigation, grammar and reading every night after work and especially enjoyed the Spectator papers by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Yet I was not happy in my brother's shop. I secretly wrote a series of humorous letters and sent them to the paper, signed them Mrs. Silence Dogood. In these letters I poked fun at Harvard College boys, at silly girls, and at bad poets. The letters amused many people in
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quiet (which we know about from the writings of those who knew him), the personality of one of the greatest men of all time has been mostly lost to history. When I was told that I not only could, but had to write about whatever I wanted for a formal paper, I was (like almost everyone else in the class) excited. Not soon after, however, the task became more and more daunting. It occurred to me that I hadn’t actually written anything that either wasn’t about politics, or that I didn’t have a prompt for
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I was sitting in ELA angry because nothing happens to me and she said we get a better grade doing a personal narrative. I am struggling in everything I love ELA and suck at it and everything else in life, I’m not even good at gaming, my favorite hobby. I say I can have good ideas, but my stupid insignificant mind thinks of nothing but ideas that TV shows have done. I have had one good idea and that was shot to death by paperrater, I am nothing, in any class there is nothing in my mind but stupidity
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Semester Final Reflective Essay At the beginning of this semester I felt this course would go smoothly and I could complete it with no difficulty. As the semester began I was expecting the similar English courses I had experienced through the past four years of high school, which is exactly what I got. We reviewed the same basic grammar skills and writing techniques. Although one thing seemed to be different compared to the other high school teachers, you were able to take interest into our work
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all of my papers, I stray way off track just to make a point that needed one sentence of explanation. During the time I sent on my final portfolio, I really tried to focus on getting the point across in much shorter detail and making sure I am staying on topic. The thing that has helped me the most is the feedback I am receiving from you and my classmates. I decided to begin with my original research paper, which is my text of choice, and follow with my final draft of my research paper. My main reasoning
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Kimberly Nunez Professor Shaver English 100S 20 July 2016 Journal 6 In the passage from “Reading Rhetorically” by John C. Bean, Virginia A. Chappell, and Alice M. Gillam, talks about the different ways/strategies a person can read. There are three type of readers, there is the “Fast”, “Slow to moderate” and the “Very slow” readers. According to text, I am considered a “Slow to moderate” reader. My strategy is to read slowly in order to understand the text well. I need time to process what I’m
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I can honestly say that I feel like I use my strengths every day. Before I started college at Bethel, though, that was not the case. I loved writing in high school and my first years of college. I enjoyed research, reading, and writing papers that presented an argument and moved the reader. At my current position, the only writing I get to do every day is in the form of short emails. I utilize strengths other than writing while at work, such as planning, prioritizing, teaching and developing
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