Writing 121, English Composition, teaches you college-level writing skills, the kind you will need for essay assignments, term papers, and exams, as well as perhaps your own further explorations into your writing talents. We’ll read, identify and write the four classic forms of essays, also called “modes of discourse” — e.g., expository, descriptive, narrative, and argumentative (traditionally nicknamed EDNA). Most importantly, though, we’ll study and practice the writing process, how to select and narrow a topic, how to generate and organize ideas, and how to revise drafts.…
“On Becoming a Writer” is an essay for the students, who are interested in writing but are afraid to face their desire, because of doubt or not taking writing as a real job. It is an essay for the teachers, showing them how much of an impact they have on a student’s future. It…
Writing varies from a text message to a novel. Writers often have a difficult task in creating a piece of work that truly identifies the meaning of good writing. Every good writer usually starts with the basics such as genre, audience, rhetorical situation, and reflection of the piece. Throughout this semester, we have gone through all of these key terms in great detail with each new assignment that has come our way. In doing this, not only as students but also as writers, we have come to create our own theory of writing. Every writer has a different theory of writing though most are very similar. Now, at this point in the semester after doing countless journals, in-class exercises, and final assignments, I think I have figured out my own theory of writing.…
Academic writing is an art of expressing and transforming thoughts and ideas into physical form to deliver information logically and scientifically. This skill needs to be refined and practiced constantly regularly. After three months of taking ESL 273, I have accumulated various experiences in writing advanced sentences and organizing academic essays which are really necessary for me to perform well in the next English course, ESL 5, as well as other classes. As a result, I think I am well-prepared and ready for the next coming course ESL 5. During the ESL 273 course, one of my strengths which is the ability of using various examples as well as explanations to reinforce my main ideas and make them more persuasive is gradually improved. For example, in my writing assignment titled “Littlemindedness- Little Limit to Go Over”, I used my personal experiences such as the diminution of discriminative thoughts and the opportunities I felt when I went from high school to college. Moreover, I also used the reality happening to the curriculum in my home country, Vietnam, in order to strengthen my attitude that coming to De Anza College can generate a significant chance to my life. In addition, I realized how important and essential transitional words are in writing an academic essay and gluing my ideas, sentences, and paragraphs together. Thus, I always keep trying to use a variety of transitional words and phrases in my essay to make it become more coherent and cohesive and avoid making discrete information. In the article “The Advantageous Policy on Immigrants”, I used some transitional words like consequently, in addition, moreover, as a result, after all, and nevertheless to create smoothness for my essay. As a result, the quality of my essays will be improved, and I will be successful in expressing and illustrating the flow of my thoughts. However, after completing 4 in-class essays, I realize that…
The student is able to write functional text that addresses audience, stated purpose, and context…
This essay must have a specific title and present your reflection on all the writing skills you have learned, for example, a central idea that controls your essay in the beginning, concise and clear sentences without grammatical mistakes, logical flow of sentences and paragraphs,…
This paper was prepared for English 160: English Composition I, Module 2 Progress Test taught by Kristina Leonard.…
This page is dedicated to the different writing assignments that I have completed in my high school career. These are a collection of writing samples that I have taken the time to write for various reasons, more often than not being a response to a prompt given to me by my teacher. Through these writing samples, you will be able to get a better sense of who I am as a person and how I have changed throughout the years, as my writing style has constantly shifted and changed. It also allows you to see the wide range of writing styles that I have practiced, depending on the type of writing and the professional level of the essay I was given. These papers have allowed me to practice several writing styles and taught me how to compose essays of all…
It's another kind of pleasure--playing wise mother to a questing younger person. It's another very lovely kind of friendship.…
D. The writer in you – Discuss your attitude toward writers and the writing and/or what you have learned about the writing process from this study guide. Do you like to write? If so, do you prefer poetry, stories, non-fiction? WhChoose one of the following topics and write an extended (500-word, multi-paragraph) essay that expands on the chosen topic. Please use all of the steps in the writing process (pre-writing, proof-reading, revising and editing, etc.). IN THE CONCLUSION OF YOUR ESSAY, DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL PREFERENCES IN LISTENING TO OR WATCHING FICTION AND DRAMA.…
They say it must have been an accident, especially since his eyesight was entirely gone. They claim the fire consumed the house, the orange and yellow hands of the flame spread its reach on everything it could. It even looked as though it could threaten to eat the sky.…
When writing an assignment for class my approach is simple; Research, prewriting, rough draft, editing, and final draft. Whether or not the assignment has a topic that is picked for me or I have to pick it myself I make sure I do my search. When I feel that I have all the information necessary I then start with an outline. When my outline is complete I then start forming my paper by free writing by writing nonstop until I run out of things to write about. I then organize my paper by weaving out the bad writing from the good. I then write my rough draft with the information I have wrote with my free writing. Editing is the next step and my editing skills are not that great so I try to have someone revise my work; four eyes are better than two. Once my mistakes are caught I write my final draft making sure I don’t make any more spelling or grammar errors. Last I turn my assignment in to the proper authority. I don’t believe my writing process differs from the formal writing process. In our text, in my own words, the writing process is prewriting, drafting, editing and publishing. I find that when I do differ from the writing process my paper doesn’t always turn out so good. If I just write a rough draft then edit the paper it seems rushed and I usually receive a rough grade. In conclusion, my approach to writing is simple I stick to the basics by following the writing process.…
It is important to follow a structured writing process with all of your writing projects because it gives all of your thoughts and ideas a guideline to follow. Without having a guideline to go by you are just free-writing and throwing all of your ideas into one big pile. This can confuse your audience and they can quickly lose interest in your point of view. When your writing is structured it allows you to make sure that everything in your writing not only relates to the topic, but also to the readers who will read it. Having a properly structured paper also helps for you to be consistent with your approach to writing, and it is much more professional.…
1 Consider how the writing process you read about in this class differs from the process you have used in the past. What specifically have you done in the past compared to what you have read about this week?…
Writing is divided into many categories, two of them being academic and non-academic writing. In order for a person to write in academic form, time, effort and money are invested in carrying out certain experiments or research concerning the field being discussed to use as evidence to support the claim. Also, citations are usually used as they have a powerful influence on the audience and tend to impel them towards believing the writer's claim. On the other hand, non-academic writing, also referred to as personal writing, can be written by anyone at anytime as they are usually personal, emotional and impressionistic. It could discuss a person's opinion or point of view on a certain matter. Academic and non-academic writing share a few similarities; however, their differences exceed the ways in which they are alike. Although Frehse uses many quotation in ''Manage Your Own Career'', it is considered non-academic whereas Tyson's ''Working With Groups'' is academic as he uses scientific evidence to support his claim.…