When I was reading “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, all I could think of was that it was exactly the way I write my papers. My first draft is always my draft to just get all of my ideas out on the paper, no matter how ugly the grammar or sentence fluency is. However, unlike Anne Lamott, but like Mercedes, I look at my first draft as a broad scope. I do not go into detail about specifics, I focus on getting the main points down. Since I write my papers like this, I also end up with around four
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My English Classes Journey Do you know anyone who was not a good writer and become an author after attending some writing classes? I born in Ethiopia, and I did not know how to write an essay before I came to The United States. When I was in my country, my English teachers gave me a good grade because I was one of the best writers according to my classmates. As soon as I came in U.S, I took a test at Montgomery college to get placed college level. the people who work in the test department placed
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I am tired but doing good this week. I am thankfully almost done with my midterms. This week has been busy, but I'm proud of myself and happy with the effort I have put into my studying. I have learned that I need to work on my time management skills a little bit, but overall everything has been going fine. My results for StrengthsQuest include the themes adaptability, responsibility, deliberative, relator, and harmony. I understood why I got responsibility, deliberative, relator, and harmony.
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better and well thought out. Additionally, the way you write leaves an impression on the reader. For example, if I had bad grammar all throughout this paragraph, what would you think of me? This is why I believe sentence structure is important. In this essay, I will explain what parts of the worksheet were particularly important, what parts I found difficult and what I can do to improve my sentences. The most important parts of the worksheet to me was commas and the semi colon. I have been taught some
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Throughout all of high school, students are taught in minimal ways to produce “perfect” essays and present them so that when they get to college they can pass their classes. This means that high school teachers only teach them to write so specifically and in such a hard structured manner, that many students hardly ever learn to write papers that flow. In high school, I always wrote really nice papers that my teachers enjoyed grading, however, I always hated writing them because if I did not use the
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Hello, I'm Efrain Gonzalez and I am a senior at Storm Lake High School. I was born and have lived in Storm Lake my whole life. I have two older brothers that are twenty one and twenty two years old and a younger sister that is a junior in High School. On my free time I like to play sports and just be physically active. The sport I put most of my focus on is soccer. Last year me and my team at Storm Lake were Runner-Ups at the State competition. I plan to go to College after High School but not sure
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So, I typed my little fingers off and picked up a few grammatical textbooks along the way. Every essay my grades got a little better, maybe he was going easy on me but I’ll never know. Concluding the year, I had to do my senior research paper, which I chose the topic of “The Brain in Love.” Precisely 15 pages later, I passed in my paper and earned an
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First my 12th grade teacher Mrs. Diaz allowed me to have unlimited freedom, in her class. I remember her assigning the class a project where, everyone get to create their own story, you named the characters, you get the choose your own story line, think outside of the box. I remember it vividly I wrote my story about an 18 year boy named Chris who is from Los Angeles California who had anger issues, no one was able to understand he’s lifestyle. The things that mattered to him the most were his friends
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My ACT Experience I have not taken the ACT’s yet, but I plan on doing so in the near distant future. I would like to take this important test somewhere in my junior year, and then most likely retake it to get a better score. I would like to reach a score of at least 30 when I take the ACT’s. I think that English may be my best class because I do some of my best work in it. When I write, I tend to use proper punctuation and nice transitions. I feel like I am very proficient at what I am trying
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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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