(optional) Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. (250) Shortly after I moved to the United States, I enrolled in an origami class. The art of paper folding was familiar to me but also difficult to master. I remember my struggles to keep up with the class and worries that I wouldn’t make any progress. Squash-folds and folding diagonal halves were steps that I had a very hard time doing. I often fell behind in class, or someone would help me with the
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Once enough time has passed that I am under some pressure to start putting pen to paper, I gather my laptop, a pencil, and some paper. I prefer making notes about the topic of my assignment on a piece of paper before actually writing any drafts. I make short, simple notes, so it does not usually take very much time. After I have researched my points, I make a basic outline for my essay. This helps me keep my paper organized and make
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The top producers in Internet marketing insist on the importance in learning copy writing and then point out the lack of interest in others in learning more about it. Copy writing is another skill that can be learned and developed through practice just as the other skills Internet marketers must learn. The reward however, can lead to greater profits by increasing conversion rates and attracting qualified customers. First they must know how to be found, so they "hang out where their customers
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This year I was taught different rhetorical devices. Some of the devices were just a simple review, while others were completely new to me. In the beginning of this year I did not know how to use certain devices, but being taught the same devices constantly made them drill into my head. The fact that I started to remember when to use these devices have helped my writing become more vigorous throughout the year. I do not know where begin with all devices I was taught. All the rhetorical devices that
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create our research paper on something that sparked our interest and had plentiful opinions on. As I started to sculpt my work, I tried and included various sources that would support my points thoroughly. Afterwards, I revised my work and found a few parts in which were lackluster and sought to add more details and remove statements in order to make my essay have more clarity. Overall, what I've learned this semester is that I have a good, general grasp of creating and molding papers to my whim; however
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tea. 3. A clear mind. 4. Depending on the topic, I will read all required documentation, and do my due diligence on the topic if necessary. This allows me to process and formulate ideas in my mind. 5. I always scribble my first draft on a sheet of paper. This sheet will contain random thoughts and ideas that come to mind. It could be a word, a sentence, even a statement. As I continue writing
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Since the beginning of the year to now, the end of the year, my writing process and skills have dramatically changed. My writing process coming into junior year was not vigorous; I would not begin the pre-write and just go straight into the writing process. Regrettably, I would procrastinate till the last night to actually begin my writing, therefore, I would rush my writing process. In addition, my evidence and commentary was poor. With this being the process for me as a writer, of course, my worse
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that I use when writing are online writing tools, and rereading my writing aloud. The benefits of reading aloud my writing are to make sure the order of ideas in a paper to make sense, see grammatical mistakes, and gaps in your explanation. Therefore, rereading my writing will help me to edit, change, add, and delete information on my papers. While taking English course at Mission College, I have learned that revision is the process of returning to a previously drafted piece of writing to incorporate
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I was running. I didn’t know what it was, but it was terrible. All black and slimy, and some of it was getting on my leather, flimsy sandals. It smelled bad, too. Just like the pigs that were in the stables just to the side of me, while I was working in the fields. Smelling mephitic and contaminated. Gosh. The smell. But the thing was still chasing me. And it was getting closer…and closer…. I woke up, cold sweat dripping down my back, feeling like raindrops. I was still in her bed, sleeping beside
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My overall experience in this course has been very helpful, I have been able to learn a lot throughout the course, especially all the essays that I have been asked to write about, they have made me a strong writer, and I have also developed some writing skills that I was not aware of I had. Throughout the course I was asked to write four essays, every one of them with different purposes, topics, critical thinking, and some of them required some research. First, I had to write an essay concerning
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