In her statement, “For the first time in my life as a maid, I have a purpose…
In the tables below, list the details provided in your feedback from different sources: your instructor, WritePoint®, Plagiarism Checker, and your peers. In the second column, explain what changes you will make to your paper based on that feedback. Address one specific area of feedback in each row.…
As the reader, I can tell that she is extremely happy when she said, “when we pulled up in front of the house on North Third Street, I could not believe we were actually going to live there” (94). She had never even been close to a house of this size. The neighborhood wasn’t all that…
Make full use of the feedback you received on your first draft, the Checklist for Revising a Persuasive Essay, and the Checklist for Proofreading a Personal Narrative, as well as the Mentor Checklist for Revising a Persuasive Essay. Each of these sources of information, especially the feedback on your first draft, will help you revise your essay to improve it. Don’t hesitate to contact your teacher if you have any questions about revising. Your teacher is there to help you.…
Week 2: Writing Tips, Components of a Good Essay, and the Narrative Essay - Discussion…
The speaker in "The Blue Dress", by Sharon Olds, idealizies her father but is soon disappointed…
This course addresses the key elements necessary for effective academic writing in college. The course begins with focus on prewriting strategies and builds to drafting and revising essays. In addition, the course includes skill development at the sentence and paragraph level.…
Just to preface my essay, I sincerely enjoy helping the community. I have already signed up for Habitat for Humanity in Boston for next semester as well as am looking into a community action project in local Boston schools on the weekends. However, Greek volunteerism so far seems, as stated in class, very non-existent. Hence, it almost makes sense why this walk was incompetently organized. Nonetheless, here is my own opinion of the community action project from last weekend:…
Reviewing and revising an essay is an essential part of writing. Reviewing allows me to rewrite and make changes in the essay’s content, organization and sentence structures. It allows me to add, remove, move or substitute words to make sure it communicates effectively the purpose of the essay. The task of reviewing the essays I wrote for this course allowed me to learn and improve my writing skills; as a result my essays have evolved into more stylish and fluent pieces of writing.…
This class has taught me many things about myself along with many necessary skills needed while writing. I know now that, through hard work and determination, I can achieve what I might think to be impossible. While reflecting back on my initial writing abilities, I see the weak, uneducated style of writing. Each essay shows my progression and improvement, and, after a while, the class began to become much easier. Today, after practicing throughout my essays this semester, I believe that I, in fact, have…
Improving my ability to become a great writer and write grade-A college papers is an important goal I hope to achieve by taking this class. My personal goals overall for this class is to gain the necessary elements and principles of writing, in order to further help my skills as a writer so it may lead to future success. As a writer my skills have improved over the years in things like grammar, thesis statements, outlines and critical thinking. Overall my skills in writing have greatly improved over the years, even though some may still require improvement. By completing this class over the summer, I look forward in reducing my weaknesses as a writer writer’s block and etc., in order to become a more significant and effective writer. Improving my writing skills has numerous benefits whether in college or things like vocabulary, keeping track of daily events, or even writing a journal of all the events taking place…
The teaching sessions and the one-to-one review with the tutor has made me realise my potential to do better in writing. I have never considered myself a good writer. I am always afraid of starting an essay and feels that I am not doing a good enough job. This module has helped me try harder and to keep on practicing. Producing a good assignment is both challenging and rewarding (Cottrell, 2008) and requires hard work. I was able to write a report on renal system and a summary of an article about infection control. The feedbacks I received…
My heart was racing, palms sweating, anyone could sense my nervous energy as I walked into Professor Roth’s 1301 English class. Writing has never been my area of expertise and I often struggle with proper grammar. Professor Roth has helped me improve my writing tremendously in the short eight-week span we have been in class. I have gained knowledge of the writing process, improved my sentence-level writing skills, and collaboratively worked with fellow classmates to achieve common goals. Over the eight weeks, I have acquired substantial fundamental aspects of writing in English 1301. Writing is an interactive process and there is always room for improving.…
Over the course of the past three months, I have had the distinct pleasure of testing my writing capabilities through the Introduction to College Writing course. I have always had a passion for writing in all forms, but in previous years, the course work in grade-level English classes have been unchallenging of my writing ability. I have been heavily involved in Bonneville High School’s newspaper through journalism since my freshman year. This allowed me to strengthen my writing capability as I was drafting throughout the entire school year. I have never truly had to apply myself until I enrolled in English 101. Since the beginning of the class, I have faced various hardships while writing essays in unfamiliar styles, such as drafting a response to a scholarly article and synthesizing opposing perspectives. I have learned that I am more than capable in writing in different styles and that all of my work will be quality content regardless of the topic. I overcame the obstacles that have challenged me, and my essays exhibit that I am fully prepared to continue my work in English 102.…
For some reason I found the reportage essay easier for me to write. At first I found myself irritated with the fact I had to get out of my comfort zone and go to an event. Once I arrived at the event I picked I was thankful because I was getting involved with my community. I feel like going to the event was the most difficult part for me. I’m a quit person making things hard. I was forced to step out of my comfort zone and open up to other people. When I sat down to write my paper I felt more confident in myself. Having confidents helped me write my paper better and stronger. I’m very thankful that every essay I wrote in this class has helped me.…