Every writer has a process, each as unique as a fingerprint. Similarly, every writer faces unique difficulties. However, some barriers trouble every writer. Two of the written pieces that we read for this unit addressed these two topics. Carol Berkenkotter conducted a study of the writing process of an author named Donald Murray. Mike Rose's analyzed five different students and the various barriers that most contributed to their writer's block. Lucille McCarthy also conducted a study of a college
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After receiving a wonderful recommendation regarding Toccoa Falls College, I applied for the English 113 course. I was so excited to start this new class until orientation day when I discovered all the work that was required for this class. Obviously, I knew there was going to be coursework; however, after reading the course schedule, I felt doomed and destined to fail. High school English wasn’t this demanding. Even though this class appeared hard and complicated, I was determined to not to give
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Finale The beginning of this semester I found myself in a skeptical mindset, as I had already taken a class at Hawkeye Community College that sounded quite similar to this one, namely introduction to professional writing in the workplace. To me, it seemed like I would just be paying a lot more to take a class that I had basically already taken. I found myself wondering if I would get anything more out of this class, if I would have any interest in it, and if the information would pertain at all
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I will be honest, I intended to write this so much sooner than I did. Procrastination and laziness is a cruel and unavoidable temptation. I had planned to write on the first day of living at college, then I had planned to write after one month of living. Both passed and I was terribly lazy on both days. No more, I said. After hearing my roommate talking about how he loved writing for the online publication Odyssey, I decided it was time to swoop into action. I don't intend for this to be a blog
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During the beginning of my divorce I had contemplated living in my car because with my income I was not able to afford the rent and because of this experience I find myself emotionally drawn to the topic of affordable housing. Incidentally, I’m a homeowner candidate for habitat and my home construction will start in June of this year. Affordable housing is a real problem and can happen to anyone at any given time, a lost job, a divorce such as in my case, and/or an income problem. The most enlightening
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the countless essays we had to write. I believe that Mrs.Miles really focused on our writing skills, which I am awfully grateful that she did. Mrs.Miles has assisted in my growth in writing; as my grammar has improved, including the use of commas, colons, and semicolons. In fact, I am now knowledgeable of the fact
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Strengths: According to the instructor feedback, my personal understanding, and peer critiques, my essay’s strengths include a solid understanding of the purpose of the article, clear development of the thesis statement and sharp recognition of the audience. According to the instructor’s feedback, my introduction is the strongest part of my paper. My introduction seems to be well-organized, clear and concise. It also contains all the necessary components for a further analysis of the article showing
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analysis essay I have gained a significant amount of confidence in my rhetorical analysis writing ability. The main reason that I felt more confident was the experience I had from the Chipped Beef essay. I was able to go back and learn from my mistakes on that essay and correct those. That allowed me to be more confident in my writing ability and write a essay without questioning myself and knowing that I knew the correct way to do it. Many areas contributed to my success in this essay, but my most
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Sadly, this is the last reflection for EDCI 7761. Frankly, I can say reflections were one of the best part of this class for me. Reflections helped me to write and synthesis of general thoughts about all readings, class discussions and things that I learned or I surprise. They will be really good sources when I need to remember something in this course in the future. I would try to do that for my other classes too. In the last two weeks, we mostly spend our time with Strategy Share Presentation
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Starting my writing process can be hard, through this semester of taking composition 1 I have learned that there it is always better taking your time reading your papers to revise them better, also I have learned to just get what I am trying to write on to the paper even though I may not make sense at first. There are many different ways for me at becoming better at revising my papers. One of the ways that I learned was though the this course, is by looking at each sentience indevisionully. This
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