Writing Center Should I Use “I”? Like Be the first of your friends to like this. What this handout is about This handout is about determining when to use first person pronouns (“I”‚ “we‚” “me‚” “us‚” “my‚” and “our”) and personal experience in academic writing. “First person” and “personal experience” might sound like two ways of saying the same thing‚ but first person and personal experience can work in very different ways in your writing. You might choose to use “I” but not make any reference
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Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for considering me to be your next class president. Since freshman year‚ I have been a passionate advocate for our student body. When a food poisoning epidemic broke out on campus‚ I crafted the petition to demand better service from our food providers and better oversight from school administrators. It was unacceptable for the health of our peers to be compromised by consuming the food in our own cafeteria. Many of you agreed with me‚ and the petition
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University as I see it Mr. Rater‚ ladies and gentlemen I am grateful for the opportunity rendered by all of you to express my opinion in this fiercely controverted subject. To me the period between high school and work‚ or Post-graduate education‚ which is called by all of us University‚ is inevitably the most defining period in our life‚ as it ends our acquisition in school as well as precedes our career of utilizing what we’ve learned. For the sake of its special position – between learning
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spite of its solemn buildings and its lack of fire-escapes‚ ventilation‚ sanitation‚ and up-to-date kitchen facilities‚ I persist in my assertion that I believe that CPU (China Pharmaceutical University) ‚ in its way‚ is the greatest school in which I have studied. I am aware that this is an extreme statement and needs the explanation. CPU is much larger in numbers‚ for example‚ than my middle school--XMFLS(Xiamen Foreign Language School)‚ and is much richer. To mention XMFLS beside the 13 640 students
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I WISH I KNEW WHY Broken families are often hard to live in. Especially divorced ones. It’s one thing for your parents to split-up when you’re a young child‚ but it’s another when you go through 15 years of your life thinking that you’ll always be a family like I did. I would have to say the most significant time in my life was when my parents were getting a divorce. Christmas had just passed and the New Year of 1998 was approaching fast. My parents had always bickered but this time their
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The song‚ I Know I Can"‚ by raper Nas‚ has a positive message that encourages people‚ but mainly children to work hard and stay in school‚ so that they can be what they want to eb in life. his song’s lyrics instill a certain pride‚ fight and determination in the listener to go out and better themselves. From the begingging the song tell children who wants to become a singers or actors to just deal with the positive influence with it and not the negative things about the business. Nas tell the listener
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I Wonder as I Wander I Wonder as I Wander is in a minor key within the whole song. The piece is abstract. The music fits with the words because the words and the music play a role in how the character is wandering and thinking which makes it a mystery. In the music‚ almost at the end of each phrase the tempo gradually slows down and then become slower and softer‚ which brings out the beauty of the song‚ and make it very interesting and special to me. “I Wonder as I Wander” grew out of three lines
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Langston Hughes wrote “I Too” as a direct response to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” In effect‚ the differences in tone inform the overall messages of the poems. By examining the two poems‚ one can see how the tones exemplify what it means to be an American. Hughes’s poem depicts a sense of isolation while Whitman’s poem gives off the sense of inclusiveness. Hughes’s poem presents a situation where the near future will allow for greater inclusion. For example he says‚ “Nobody’ll dare say to
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I Never Thought I Would Do It As any other high school kid‚ I had very uncertain thoughts about going to college and about what career path I wanted choose. There was really not one specific major that captured my attention. I always said I wanted to be a professional baseball player‚ but also had this curiosity of what it would be like to be in the military. I was very attracted by the way they conducted themselves with such professionalism‚ and how everyone granted them so much respect. Although
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the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different. In his poem "I‚ Too" he sees America as racist and oppressive to the African American race‚ but he does have
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