English 49 Why do we find ourselves asleep half the time during history class? Is it because of the long drawn-out process of cramming dates and events into our heads within an hour and half? Perhaps history would be more exciting if we students were given the opportunity of learning history from different perspectives. Fortunately‚ that opportunity is granted in these current times. How we perceive history is subjective but we’re taught to learn it in a repetitive way in our K to 12 education
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Writer’s Reflection Where do I stand as a writer? This was a question I constantly asked myself and pondered about whether it was writing for a hobby or for a class assignment. Through the years of writing on the side‚ and creating stories from the fiction of my imagination‚ to sitting in English classes with constant interest to improve my writing‚ I found the passion and craving to write something‚ growing more vibrantly inside me‚ and feel as though it constantly changes my viewpoint and have
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Reflections as a Writer Everyone isn’t perfect‚ nor is their writing. Reflecting on what kind of writer I think I am is harder than I expected it to be. It’s because I don’t want writing to have to do with my future career. I don’t plan on becoming a journalist. I am just an average writer. When I write papers‚ I don’t try to exceed the standard of writing more than the required length‚ simply because I don’t want to. In high school‚ it seemed that the teachers were more concerned about the length
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Science/Math classroom‚ I have not been able to personally have a conference with Heather as she works through a writing assignment. This reflection is an analysis of her writing that I obtained from her writing journal. The analysis‚ also‚ comes from a discussion with her during the Surveys and DRA assignment. I used Carl Anderson’s book‚ Assessing Writers‚ to help analyze the two samples. I used the assessment guides‚ found in the appendix section‚ to analyze her two samples. These assessments
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Final Reflection This class has given me the opportunity to not only improve my writing but‚ also learn a lot about myself as a writer. I had never thought about how I approached the act of writing and what I felt about writing before coming to this class. I always tried my best to follow the guidelines and wrote typical essays with introduction‚ body paragraphs‚ and conclusion. English 1102 gave me the liberty and occasion to understand the purpose of writing and my feelings on writing. I have
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English Writing Reflection. English has always been one of my favorite subjects along with writing. At a young age I remember always writing childish stories‚ and comic books. In second grade I even won a writers competition. Writing has always been a part of my life. I keep a journal to write important events happening in my life and I like to write poems as well. However‚ during my high school years writing essays became more complex. For some reason I couldn’t seem to fully
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1st Quarter Reflection Learning always helps to improve the future and it happens through many ways. This quarter has gone by so fast‚ yet I have learned so much‚ especially in my English class. In English this quarter I learned to express myself‚ understand many advanced texts‚ and use literary devices along with grammar to help even further express myself. I became very skilled at applying and acquiring new vocabulary to further understand the readings and core texts we have. In class‚ I learned
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manage my time and to be responsible. It really didn’t hit me that I was actually in college until my English class with Mrs. Bartram. I noticed right away she was my kind of teacher. I knew that I would want to be very successful and try my best in her class. Sometimes teachers just don’t have that motivation or attitude that makes their students want to learn and to try their best. In my English class‚ I felt the motivation to learn. This class really made me realize that I need to take responsibility
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As I am approaching graduation after five long years of college‚ it is hard to believe that English 200 was my first English class of my college career. I have concluded that during my four writings that there have been three areas that I needed and have improved on during this semester. Over the course of these few months‚ it has become apparent that my writing skills have improved in the areas of finding the appropriate target audience‚ finding new language to use in persuasive essays‚ and finally
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Matt Mclellan February 4‚ 2002 6pm class Monday The Pen Is Mightier Than The King The 17th century saw a king’s head roll and an English Caesar sit the throne‚ in the midst of all of this a new class was rising. England in the 17th century was rife with change‚ there was much work to be done before the industrial revolution could fully grip the nation. For hundreds of years the monarch had dominated the political landscape‚ now that was changing radically. Although their remained a Monarch
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