Assignment On ENC-101

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In this very last assignment of my ENC-101 course, I have chosen three previous assignments and resubmitted them after revisions and improvements. I will also explain why I choose these three assignments, along with explanations of my revisions and additions to them. My revised essays are also placed bottom of this assignment.

After reading our mentors notes and analyzing what we have learned through this term, I have read all assignments that were submitted before our midterm exam. This gave me chance to follow up with how I advanced my writing skills from the beginning. As it was interesting to see how I can point out the missing qualities of these essays, it was nice to see our mentor’s notes justifying my points.

I have chosen my first, …show more content…

I added another sentence that explains my need of right emotions to introduction to complete it. I also eliminated the fragments on two sentences as pointed out by our Mentor. Because this was an academic assignment rather than poetry, fragments would hurt the assignments. After all, I explained all internal and external factors of writing. I also proofread the essay for grammatical …show more content…

I have added a conclusion paragraph to complete the structure. But as stated in mentor notes, there was a lot of grammatical errors and missing words that I had to proofread again and try to eliminate all grammatical errors. After reading it twice, I proofread it again, and started taking out the unnecessary words. I also replaced some words with better fit and accepted ones. I have also noticed some repeated words in conclusion, I have placed better wording accordingly.

On my last chosen essay ‘Online Learning’, I have worked on formatting. I made sure my paragraphs were indented correctly as noted by the mentor. Spacing was also double checked. After reading this essay twice, I felt that I could add another paragraph to the body. It did seem like I could have used more evidence to justify online education’s benefits. Therefore, I added a paragraph to support

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