When it comes to essays some students would usually freak out or be lazy to write one. While other students feel motivated in writing. Also, depending on the type of essay. In my high school I experienced writing different types of essays, such as comparison, expository, narrative, persuasive, and analytical essays. I personally like writing narrative, comparison, and expository essays. For a narrative essay I am able to tell my own story with my own experiences. In a comparison essay I am able to compare and contrast different texts and analyze their rhetorical devices. Even thought an analytical essay is my least favorite I am still able to work and develop on the analyzing criteria for each type of essay. All these types of essay have contributed …show more content…
As a freshman in high school I wasn't expected to know everything about writing an essay, just the basic outline of an essay, which is to know what a hook and a topic sentence is and how to gather information (main ideas). My first big project essay I wrote was in my freshman year. I wrote a narrative essay about my parents migrating to Los Angeles, which included a video clip that summarized my parents story, too. In writing this essay I was so exited to write and tell my parents struggles that I wrote about two to three front and back page essay. When I submitted my work I was so happy because I thought I did a great job in being so specific and detailed, but when I got my essay back I was so shocked. I was shocked to see a lot of red pen marks on my paper, full of positive and negative comments. The negative comments were the feedback my English teacher gave me to help me fix my errors. It was so helpful to receive feedback and improve my writing because at first my ideas where all over the place and after I broke it down to big junks to make it clearer. Knowing that I was able to re write my essay again I was calm and did a new draft with a more cohesive
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
The way it shaped what I was writing was that I would choose topics that I knew very well so that it made it easier for me to just write from things I new and in that way meet the requirements and so it never allowed me to take time and research or acquire new learning. I have written a five-paragraph essay for a class assignment particularly following the “Spart Write” formula. My experience with this was that I was just trying to meet certain criteria and that's all I really cared about. By having to write in such a structure manner it didn't allow me to learn new things. Based on my own experiences and on the readings, the most important characteristics of an academic student essay would be to follow some sort of structure where it doesn't allow you to wander aimlessly but not to structure that it doesn't allow you to learn or explore new ideas. Also mention in “The Age of Essay” having that surprise element because it allows you to learn new things and it might even lead you to contradict things you already
Writing essays was never my forte, it just never came easy to me like it would to others. Since other subjects came easy to me and I had to focus more than others on writing, I had a negative attitude toward the process as a whole. During this summer semester, I was able to grow as a writer, and gain a more positive attitude toward how I write and a better feel for writing in college. Writing a paper is a process in which there are many different stages. In high school I would never write outlines or any sort of pre planning work. Other struggles I encountered in my writing were my theses, and framing quotes.
In Laura Purdy’s account of Genetics and Reproductive Risks: Can Having Children Be Immoral?, Purdy’s claim is that conception of a child is immoral when there is reasonable concern of a genetic disorder and if prenatal screening is not done to see how likely it is for your child to obtain that disease, then it is wrong. Purdy thinks it is immoral to reproduce when we are at high risk of transmitting a disease or defect and she says it is wrong to reproduce without knowing the consequences of our genome. The birth of a child at risk of a serious defect could be prevented by abortion or preventing conception of a child. And conception is only allowable once a person has undergone a prenatal screening and if a selective abortion would be done, and for those who are against abortion must be extremely careful not to conceive.
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When I was required to write my first essay, I was so nervous due to the lack of confidence I had in
The first day of my junior year I was extremely overwhelmed by this class; all the essays we were required to write in the first week didn't help much either. However, since the beginning of the year I have learned so many useful and important lessons which have guided my learning throughout this first semester and, I'm assuming, will continue to guide me for the rest of my high school experience and beyond. In addition, I have made many goals which pertain to essays I have written, and I believe I have met those goals.
My favorite essay was the creative writing essay. When I first took a look at the class syllabus and saw that I would be doing a creative writing essay I was pretty nervous. I have never seriously done one and did not think that I
Profiling, is a way of finding a killer or killers. A profile is created by using their psychological and behavioral characteristics. I learned a lot about this from the tv show called Criminal Minds, it is about a group of F.B.I. detectives that look beyond the evidence and look more on the psychology of the killer. They use this method to find the killer and save victims. Profiling is an actual method used by detectives in the F.B.I. not just the T.V. show.
Writing has never been my strong suit. I’ve always been more of a math girl. I just feel math comes easier to me, because in math there is one solution to a problem. It would be less frustrating for me if there was a clear formula in writing a perfect essay. I feel when assigned an essay I freak out on how to make it seem smart enough and clean it up enough to at least a “B” essay because I know getting that “A” is a stretch. The most frustrating aspects of writing for me are writing the hook, the thesis statement, and being my own worst critic.
Nevertheless, traditional schools offer students with a plethora of enrichment activities and allow them to participate in extracurricular activities. Students are able to recognize their skills and talents through clubs, sports, and variety of community outreach programs while homeschool students only concentrate on academics. It is an important factor in a child’s development as it promotes competition which is critical as it motivates the student to continually try to improve themselves while homeschool students are isolated (Debate.org, 2017). By joining these activities, students will be aware of the tasks they are good at doing which will raise their self-esteem. At the same time, they also learn to handle a variety of different tasks
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class, I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work to see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded.
Each of the essays included an original version, followed by a revision memo, and last but not least a final revised version of the essay. After we completed an essay, the professor would grade our original essay and give feedback on how to further improve on our final revised essay. We then would have to take his corrections into consideration and write 2 paragraphs on how to fix our mistakes called a revision memo. The first essay we were asked to write an “Argument Description”. For this essay, it was required for the students to find the writer’s primary and secondary claims of a particular essay chosen from the Best American Essays book and describe how they work. Secondly, we were asked to write an “Argument Analysis”. In this essay it required the same work as the “Argument Description” essay, but we were asked to find the implications about the claims stated. The next essay, Professor Stuart asked us to write was a “Genre Analysis”. The “Genre Analysis” essay required us to develop an argumentative analysis that explains the expectations of the assignments. This specific essay required us to explain the strategy and process, and evaluate how we had to adapt to the assignment. Our final essay for this course was called an “Argument in Literature”. The “Argument in Literature” essay required us to compose an argument analysis over one of the course readings and give an evaluation of the ideas
The greatest difficulty that I came across doing the first essay was retracing the past, retracing the sadness. Having to bring back sad memories that made my life terrible at the time. Doing the essay, I learned that I have gone through a lot of crap. I was sinking in quicksand and now I stand on the quicksand like it is rock solid. I am proud of myself. I was able to turn my life around and be the person that I am today. I might have the potential to be a good writer someday. People compliment on my writing skills every now and then when I write something long. That makes me feel like a real student. I say that because an old History teacher of mine used to tell kids to be students when they were not doing their work.
I never had any interest in writing before entering high school, I never enjoyed writing essays. I believe the reason was I did not find it necessary to write a 5-page essay on 'To Kill a Mockingbird '. In the real world we will write a page or two for job opportunities and some for the job itself, but hardly ever will you need to write an essay on some book or event in time;