org/10.M65/amr.2012.0165 EDITOR’S COMMENTS: REFLECTIONS ON THE CRAFT OF CLEAR WRITING Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time‚ or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard‚ it’s because it is hard (Zinsser‚ 2006: 9). Most of us struggle with our writing. We thrash and hack our way through paragraphs‚ writing and editing and rewriting until we think we’ve made some progress on that God-forsaken
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Throughout this creative writing unit‚ I’ve grown as a writer. I have discovered writing weaknesses I have‚ and acknowledged some of my writing strengths. I also got to read and critique some of my peers papers which helped me grow and learn as a writer about what works well and what may not. A lesson I learned from my friends is that‚ when starting a narrative‚ make sure it starts as a story instead of an essay. By starting a narrative as a story‚ I mean that it should start in a scene or with
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1.0 SYNOPSIS QWERTYUIOP tells of a young secretary’s struggle with her predecessor to hold on to her job by communicating through the electric typewriter. Lucy Beck who has just started working at Ross and Bannister’s finds the typewriter haunted by Miss Broome‚ her predecessor. The latter does not want anybody to take over her place and so haunts the typewriter‚ making it almost impossible for anyone to type out letters. Lucy is determined to hold on to her job. She battles it out with the spirit
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English Writing Inventory 1-16-11 1. The only writing I really do on a regular basis would be texting‚ Facebook‚ making household lists and journaling at this point in my life. I am writing a memoir for my daughter but it is coming along slower than I was hoping and time seems to fly by without getting as much done as I had hoped for. 2. My favorite kind of reading right now is really just newspapers‚ although I stick to the positive things‚ magazines and news websites. I like anything
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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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“The Sniper” Short Story Analysis Liam O’flaherty’s “The Sniper” creates an eerie feeling caused by the intensity and severity of the raging war of the authors mind and text. Having read “The Sniper” and given the end‚ a notion is created that the author has brotherly issues or perhaps issues with a friend that is considered a brother. The sniper in the story is going through war and through the text it is shown that he is cautious and patient in his work. Although he is careful in the line
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In the following essay‚ I will reflect on my past experiences of writing‚ my strengths‚ weaknesses‚ and potential goals moving forward. My writing experience has been a difficult process for me. I never enjoyed writing‚ never thought I was good at it‚ and have basically tried to avoid it at all cost. I can recall many moments in my life where I struggled with writing. As I think about my writing in high school‚ it is pretty depressing. I would often spend countless hours pondering on what I should
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knowing the fundamentals of how to write an essay‚ yet I never knew what writing processes would work best for me. A writing process is a routine that helps writers become more effective and has procedures that vary amongst each individual. To incorporate a process to develop essays was my goal‚ so that is why I researched different procedures that would work best for me. Although many people struggle in developing an essay‚ writing an essay is simple when applying the correct methods. I found that prewriting
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The Reading and Writing Impact Much like every other kid growing up during the nineties‚ in a middle-class household‚ I watched my fair share of cartoons‚ played Super Nintendo‚ and occasionally went outdoors to play Cops and Robbers. I never had an ardor to read or write unless it was a game of MASH that I would play with my girl friends. It left me vulnerable‚ and I was the type of little girl to get her feelings hurt too easily. As I grew older and gained knowledge my outlook evolved. Reading
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Writing skills have not always been my biggest category‚ and with the help of unit two I have learned a few tips to help me develop a stronger writing skill. Starting with a solid construction‚ give the writing time to stew‚ and reading the work aloud are three of these tips that have interested me (Bethel University‚ 2014‚ slides 7-8 & 11-12). Starting with a solid construction helps me get past the beginning of not knowing where to start. So with reviewing the material that has been assigned to
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