I'm an 8th grader at Shadow Ridge Middle School in Colorado. We were assigned to a fall reading project. Our literacy teacher gave us list of books to choose from. I’m glad I picked In Case You Missed It.I chose your book because it was the most realistic book of them all. When I was reading what your book was about I realised that this was the book that could teach an actual lesson to it’s readers.I’m glad I picked your book because it left me wanting more after I had finished reading it. The
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Before I took the class ENG 101, I struggled so much with writing. From sending simple emails to people, to sending texts to my children, I had always had a hard time collecting my thoughts and writing them down. I did not think I learned very much from this class, yet I was expecting it to be very difficult for me. Because of my origin, my native language is not English. When I speak, my thoughts usually come to me in Amharic, my native language. It used to be so challenging for me to speak English
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We walked into class thinking it would be a regular boring Tuesday, but then we walked into Mrs. Draper's class and saw a handsome stranger on the board. The stranger was Mrs. Tammy Chaffin, our librarian, son, Cullen Chaffin. Cullen Chaffin is an actor/actor in the making. He is a college student and is twenty years old. We began by asking Cullen questions, we asked how he got into acting and he said he has not always wanted to become an actor, he wanted to be a bus driver but his parents said
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I’m not a huge fan of self-help books, but my parents bought me The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and told me to read it. I thought they were nuts. At first I bluffed it off so I didn’t have to read it. Then I started high school and suddenly I had lots to juggle. I was frantically trying get everything done and still find time for fun and family. Then, after deciding that what I was doing wasn't working, I started to read your book. As I read your book, I started taking what you wrote
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When this project was first proposed in class, I became nervous, as my foundation in writing is not strong. I was eager to set aside time and help a student in need, however I didn’t believe that my skills were strong enough to do so effectively. I immediately initiated contact with Jonathan, and to my surprise he had asked to set up a meeting just a few short days after I was assigned this project. The first meeting lasted just over two hours, and I believe both Jonathan and I left the session happy
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Thinking about my individual writing process has caused me to forget how I begin a paper. It’s strange to think about the concept of what writing is before you actually write something. After reading over the assigned pages to give me the help I need to discover what my individual writing process is I “skimmed” over freewriting. I tend to just start writing and let my thoughts flow and I feel like it’s what best suits my writing style. So here we go. My individual writing process includes freewriting
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June 30, 2017 ENTRY 1: Me, Writer Attitude: I do not like to write but I believe I can get to enjoy it. The only pressures I have are thinking of what to say and how to say it. In writing, every detail and consequence needs to be seen. Because anything has its place in writing and it can get confusing, for one, you must remember all the rules and standards in which an essay must be written. Inventory: I have learned that you have options to write or not to write. But if I want to make it in life
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English 100 Reflective essay I learned in this class that i could improve more on writing essays, that I need to proofread so i won't have as many errors and that I can improve a lot on how I word my sentences. When I started class I knew that i could write an essay but i didn't think i needed any improvement. On my first essay i learned that i could improve a lot on writing essays. In my first essay I didn't use MLA because i had never used it before. I also used cite my sources wrong sometimes
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This class wasn’t exactly what I expected, I was not ready and misjudged myself. The way I write isn’t any different, in my opinion, besides the fact I think more about what I’m writing if it's good, and having someone proofread it. This class showed me that I am not a writer, and don’t want to be one. I did not grow as much as expected as a writer, I thought I was going to get better with comma splices, but no improvement. I could improve more on my sentence structure, paragraph transitions
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getting your thoughts down. The second about fixing it up and work on editing. And the third draft is to perfect it and fix all the little mistakes and for critiquing. I've never really wrote papers this way but after reading this article I agree with Lamott that it is the most efficient way to write a paper. In the first draft, you just want to get stuff down. A problem I tend to have
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