Stephanie Montesino Professor Schulz ENGL 1302 January 23‚ 2015 Diagnostic Essay College students today battle between standard grading scales and pass/fail scales due to its major differences. A pass/fail grading scale has its pros and cons as well as the standard grading scale. The main purpose for offering the pass/fail grading scale for students rather than the standard letter grade is just an easier passage for “sympathy” without serious consequences to the cumulative grade point average.Students
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Brittiany Greene Eng 103 Bryan S Diagnostic Essay Someone I’ve always looked up to as a leader has been my grandmother. She has a natural ability to guide me and others in the right direction. She doesn’t hold a job title that requires her to possess leadership qualities‚ it comes natural. It is easy for her to take control of a situation without coming off as overbearing and aggressive. She creates an atmosphere that puts others around her at ease and makes it comfortable for others to be
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Valeria Viscarra 00628478 ENG110-5-Expository Writing Diagnostic Essay September 3‚ 2013 Dr. Mary Muchiri Coexisting in a One Sided World Culture shock. Defined by Webster’s dictionary as the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone when they are suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture‚ way of life‚ or set of attitudes. Though not always pleasant‚ experiencing culture shock opens the eyes of those who experience it. I know it opened mine. While I had traveled outside of my country
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Diagnostic Essay The main features that need to be present for a story to be satisfying to me are; a main character‚ a key emotional event‚ detailed descriptive language and resolution. In my view‚ these features are indispensible to a good story because they create interest‚ curiosity‚ a clear image of events‚ and a feeling of satisfaction when the events in the story come to a final conclusion. A main character is essential because without one there can be no story. In “Royal Beatings”
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Cody Levitt Professor Thomas Eng 121 January 27‚ 2013 Diagnostic Essay My history as a writer began like the opening of any book you could read in the world. To extrapolate‚ I began my adventure in reading and writing by learning to read from left to right‚ and from right to left. I feel like through my early learning in Montessori school‚ and Hebrew school I have gained enough knowledge to pursue the next course in college learning. In my past I learned that reading and writing
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Weston E. Nicholson September 7‚ 2010 ENG 111-15G Diagnostic Essay Writing Fireworks I have never been very good in English class; I find that adverbs‚ nouns and adjectives confuse me. I have‚ however‚ enjoyed composition. I am the kind of writer that writes about anything for any reason. It can be fiction‚ non-fiction or even a mix of both; but I go on and on until I get bored with it‚ than stop. Usually when I receive an assignment‚ I just start writing and writing and when
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using abbreviations. In my own text collection‚ the figure is about 10%. People seem to have swallowed whole the stories that youngsters use nothing else but abbreviations when they text‚ such as the reports in 2003 that a teenager had written an essay so full of textspeak that her
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Technology has evolved into a simple method to express one’s thoughts and feelings; no matter how hurtful‚ aggressive‚ and negatively influential it may be. These thoughts are spilled onto a computer or a smart phone and are release out for everyone to see and it challenges traditional and widely shared values. It has given people of all ages the ability to access and share information; whether it is true or false. Along with the false facts that float through the Internet‚ are the culprits that
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The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins has created a master piece trilogy that has new and old readers having nonstop reading sessions to get through the books. It all started with the first book of the trio‚ The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games begins with Katniss Everdeen and her sister getting ready for the all crucial name drawing for who would participate in the annual Hunger Games. In the beginning‚ Katniss has to make the most sacrificial duty to protect her sister and volunteer to be the representative
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Luke Koury Mr. Kinkaid Period 4 23 September 2014 Knowledge is Pain and Ignorance is Bliss Themes are an important part in literature and other forms of media. Without them‚ media would be very straightforward‚ bland and literal. Themes also connect ideas between different media sources. The Allegory of the Cave has many underlying themes. One very important theme that can be seen throughout media today is knowledge is pain and ignorance is bliss. In the allegory of the cave‚ knowledge is
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