Stephanie Mora Professor Melee Writing 01 Section 59 Prompt #2 11 September 2012 Patience, Process and Practice Through most of my time in high school, I always found myself writing more of exploratory writing for two simple reasons; it took a shorter amount of time, and relating writing to my personal experiences was something I had no need to look up. Exploratory writing is a time to take advantage to relate your own personal experiences and an attempt to make a connection with a certain reading. The experiences you have will not be exactly the same as you’re classmate and might be very enjoyable to read. Lamott and Hairston both use explanatory and exploratory writing in their essays by explaining the techniques of what good writers do and applying their own personal experiences. By applying both explanatory and exploratory in their essay they are able to provide the reader with new ideas they can adopt to improve their writing skills. My writing process began in 8th grade where I had the understanding of the basic structure of a …show more content…
Strategies and techniques that a person uses are those that allow you to write great papers. There are no rules on how an essay should be written; the only expectations are to get your main point across to your audience. Whether you are writing a persuasive essay, an informal essay, literary essay, argumentative essay, or a compare and contrast essay you name it there is always a purpose. One individual can follow a linear process and can edit it and precede all over with the following steps. Your fellow class mate might have a different way to write or even have similarities within. Writing takes time, patience, and overall practice. Just like how Hairston relates writing to the best athletes. Athletes are not born the best but through practice, time, criticism, and reinforcement it can lead them to become the
Essays are not just the standard five paragraphs and then done style that was taught to students in grade school. The article “The Sixth Paragraph: A Re-Vision of the Essay” by Paul Lynch, explains quiet well how essays are typically taught and why. It is basically because it is easy to grade and even easier to write. Even when talking about writing or giving an example to a person it’s quite typical to start using the five paragraph format. While writing the standard essay the guidelines are quite specific. BE precise, stick to the topic, and stay impersonal. However, the author states that this made her realize that essays can be confining instead of teaching. So instead the author decided to listen to her students and quit focusing on the
When writing an essay, I begin by understanding the genre or the purpose of the writing assignment and knowing who will read my essay. Brainstorming and organizing all the details, ideas, and adding examples come next. I gather my evidence from my own personal experiences, from the experiences of those who are close to me, and from trusted sources, like books, journals,
The strengths in my writing are my organizational skills, grammatical construct, and my work ethic. Organizing an essay is a very natural process for me. I always follow the basic guidelines for the structure of an essay, which state that one must have an introduction, thesis statement, body, conclusion, and a works cited when needed. The “Are Helicopter Parents Entering the No Fly Zone?” essay, “Animal Cloning—How Unethical Is It?” essay, and the “The Clean Water Act—Is it Successfully Reducing Water Pollution?” essay all have a proper introduction, an informative thesis statement, a body, great conclusions, and works cited pages. Formatting the essays is an integral aspect of organizational skills. Each new paragraph is indented, the font is twelve-point Times New Roman, the sentences are double spaced, and the headers are correct.
When it comes to organizing their thoughts, and putting those thoughts on paper some students tend to struggle. Students can research and tell about the information they want to present but not have the skill to properly organize those skills. Therefore, writing strategies is important to develop conceptual understanding and skills. Writing strategies will help assist the students by putting their own thoughts together on paper using organization and then applying those words into a written essay.
From each of my previous English classes from summer 2014 to summer 2015, I have learned a new method on writing a good essay and same method that I have learned previously. When learning the new method of writing a good essay, it was hard as I got too used to doing the regular way of writing an essay. That would be the reason why I would struggle sometime to write a good paper as each English class I take would learn a new unique or same method. I am getting better as I steadily improving my weak points in my paper, but I would still have some problems with grammars in most of my paragraphs, which is the reason why I would go to learning center and have peers review to see where I should change and improved the essay. Learning same and different methods from each English class is difficult to get used to and it takes little by little to develop an excellent paper to turn in.
Newspapers becoming available on the internet, which can be accessed from most any mobile device, allows people to be informed while on the go. Rupert Murdoch created a newspaper called the Daily that allowed anyone with an iPad to view issues for ninety-nine cents a week (Vivian 95). Though this app was directed at a specific audience – iPad users who are willing to pay for their news. This app shows an example of the profitable world for newspapers online. Bringing the news online like this could result in a more informed democracy.
Volunteering is helpful to many people around the world for many reasons like some people needing medical help, some needing food, some needing an education, and some needing a place to live. Volunteering should not be something that is mandatory, but it should be done because people want to help others in need. So when people volunteer they are mostly volunteering because they respect and want to help others who need help. The people who volunteer out of respect and wanting to help others are motivated to work as hard as they can. While the people who are less motivated are the people who are volunteering to help themselves instead.
Introduction The internet has helped students, of all ages, have easier access to information, expand ways of learning, and it has helped the amount of online graduates increase dramatically. Internet has brought education and learning to a whole new level. Access To Information Everyday students are complaining about how they don't want to carry all their books around, how they are heavy, and just downright annoying. Just one computer can contain all that information in those books and weigh less than half of them, thanks to the internet.
TOK Exploratory Essay Echo Xu 5/12/16 How should a college student decide a major? One of the challenging decisions for future college students falls on choosing a major. Major choices will strongly impact students’ future life and living standards based on earning, future pursue of degrees and career choices. It is a dynamic decision for college students and they should decide their major by their personality, interests and future occupational choices.
In today’s day and age, it is unheard of to see someone reading for pleasure. Humans are all so involved with technology that we miss out on the copious amount of knowledge humans could be utilizing by enhancing our intelligence by reading a book. Life is full of experiences, but there is nothing is better than getting a book and transporting yourself into that world for a fraction of the day. King, Malcolm X, Thoreau, and O’Connor all found their identity while reading which shows the simplest activity can be the most enlightening experience a person can have in life. The role that reading plays in people’s lives has huge effects on how they grow as a person.
With the bad also comes the good in online learning; there are many beneficial aspects to taking a class online for students. Because online learning is not bound by being in the same space at the same time, it allows for more flexibility especially when it comes to expanding student populations (Keengwe & Kidd, 2010). Because these students can be farther than hearing distance away online learning helps to attract students that might not of considered a certain college and may even help students remain in school to complete not only their first degree but even a higher degree because they can do the work on their time (Allen & Seaman, 2007). Online courses offer more flexibility on attendance because a student can do their work when it
"The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant effectively employs a very dreary mood, despondent character and a surprise ending to develop the idea that when an individual is overcome by greed, that person has an excessive desire to obtain material wealth to feel self sustained.
The more I began to write essays, the more it seemed to take a toll on me to learn more on proper writing techniques.
Organization and proper word choice will assist in spreading your message across readers. If your ideas are spontaneous and out of order, readers will have a hard time deciphering the message you are trying to send. Keep information in order and provide an introduction that prefaces what the essay will be about. Along with that, using proper word choice is important as well. Based on your audience, different choices of words can have different impacts. For example, if you are writing to a group of elementary grade kids, using words that are easier to understand will be best. If you write to your professor, using a variety of unique words will give off an impressive impression. Know your audience and calculate what words to use based on
In this course I have learned and written many essays from as small as reading responses to writing an argumentative paper. All the essays had a similar style of writing and that is that it had to have a thesis, body paragraphs, and a conclusion except for the major assignments like LEN, Argumentative Paper, Lit Review, and etc., which required more than just those three elements to writing the essay. I prefer one type of writing style to another because it lets me see the difference in my writing and if there are improvements in my writing. I do see similarities in the different essays I wrote and they are that my thesis statements are not strong enough, which is why my essays are not strong enough. Choosing a good thesis statement and having good body paragraphs are crucial to writing essays because that is the key part of the essay, which I needed work on all semester.