Writer’s Reflection As I sit here and ponder over the last semester, I smile remembering what my thoughts were before I started. I was excited thinking about joining this semester, noticing that I had English 111 as one of my courses. This will be a breeze I thought. Writing and I go together hand in hand well, and I bet this will be one of my favorite courses that I’ll ace with flying colors. I’ve always enjoyed writing, but I think that was because I didn’t realize what all goes into writing
realized that my personal essay was my lowest grade. As I worked to revise this piece I realized the areas I can improve on. Some areas I could to work on, based of my personal essay was changing from past to present tense within my essay, my use of semicolons, and working on hooking the reader in my intro. In a few of my essays, I have noticed I tend to switch tenses without knowing it. Mostly when I am talking about something that happened in the past I switch from speaking in past and present tense
In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. uses a catalogue of personal experiences in order to appeal to the emotions of the reader, also called pathos, by utilizing concrete language, semicolons, and lengthy sentences. He not only entices the emotions of the fellow clergymen he is addressing, but also society in general, attempting to reveal the true situation of the oppressed Negroes during this time in the Civil Rights Movement. Concrete language is tangible and uses examples
virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities
It’s no secret that students are supposed to learn, improve, and grow throughout the course of a class. For true improvement to occur, a student must identify that they have made a mistake, learn from the mistake, and correct themselves for the next time. For me, this semester has been an extremely amazing learning experience. No, I did not have a dramatic transformation in my writing. Yet, the things I have learned in this class have been extremely helpful and have stuck with me like glue. When
me in my abilities as a writer. While working on this essay I learned the power of "showing" through words, instead of "telling." This essay also helped me to increase my knowledge of punctuation use; specifically, the semicolon. In my previous essay, my over-use of the semicolon ran rampant. For reasons unknown to me, I detested short sentences. In an attempt to length...
end of a sentence. (An em dash can be used for the same purpose and is commonly preferred, but the colon is grammatically correct as well.) Not only does the colon have a similar function to the em dash, but it also possesses a similarity with the semicolon. This likeness occurs anytime that it is used to separate two independent clauses when the second sentence illustrates, explains, or expands upon the first sentence. The two vertical dots indicate what is to follow is worthy of one's attention, indicating
paper and tells him that he should have wrote it differently. Another instance where the teacher finds mistake in the paper is when the teacher fixes the students semicolons mistake in the paper. The teacher says, “Please notice how I’ve repaired your/ use of semicolons.”(28).This instance shows that the teacher found a mistake of semicolons, which the student did not use correctly in the paper. However, even after finding all these mistakes the teacher gives A- as an overall grade to the student. This
A sentence fragment is a sentence which is grammatically incomplete. It is incomplete because it either lacks a subject or a verb. It can also lack both. Correcting Fragments. The two most common ways to correct fragments are the following: Connect fragment to sentence. Or Re write fragment so it is a complete sentence Four of the most common types of fragments are the following: 1. Dependent word fragments: This fragment has two necessary components for a complete sentence which is a subject and
April 17th, 2018. Sobe-Lynn Bassett Professor Downum Course: WRIT 106_AZ Perspective of Life. The play “Wit” by Margaret Edson, deals with the painful struggle that Dr. Vivian Bearing has to endure during her final stage of ovarian cancer. “Wit” inspires the audience and/or reader to immerse themselves into a deeper perspective on life and what is most valuable in our lives. I feel that the play tries to strongly represent how much
Physical changes; new progress from birth infants and toddlers continue to develop rapidly stop their bodies through and the changes are profound these changes include; number one development of reflexes comet number to learning skills, perception health issues. The neonatal period as in the first 4 weeks of life after birth. Usually infant’s way around five and a half to 10 lb. Neonates born weighing less than five and a half pounds are low birth weight more over babies who are born before their
Wallace Stevens explores the perception of a January winter scene in his poem “The Snow Man.” The poem occurs over the space of five unrhymed stanzas, three lines each, and is contained to a single, deceptively simple sentence. Within this sentence, semicolons split up the viewer’s actions as the speaker expands on the necessities of the scenery. Rather than that which is perceived, it is the act of perception on which the poem focuses, and passive verbs predominantly characterize this central action
In "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", Herrick explicitly uses literary devices and structure to develop the themes present. The first stanza of the poem contains two distinct thoughts, separated by a semicolon. Herring uses this format to put extra emphasis on each statement made. The first sentence contains an implied metaphor of Time to a bird, through the word flying, implying that time is moving quickly away from us. The second sentence uses personification to draw the reader into a connection
One of the greatest experiences that I have been exposed was brushing a paint brush against a wide range of different material, and transferring an idea from my mind into a real, picturesque work of art. I’m modest about my work in art; very few people know that I have a talent, and thoroughly enjoy transferring images from my imagination onto canvas. Painting puts me into a tranquil state of mind. If I were to paint on the Beta Bridge at the University of Virginia, I would want people to experience
distinguish the red error in my code. Day after day, I sat in front of my laptop trying to decode this puzzle. My energy was draining slowly. But now was not the time to complain. Looking down at my laptop, it just hit me: the forgotten semicolon. This semicolon was the final piece that completed my line of code. As a result, this website allowed people to organize their tasks with jars. Jellybeans represented the assignments and were added to the jar every time the project was completed. Even though
William Butler Yeats' The Cap and Bells William Butler Yeats’s ballad “The Cap and Bells” depicts the behavior of love through an allegorical account of actions between a jester and a queen. Through the use of many symbolic references, the dramatic characters accurately reflect a lover’s conduct. Referring to jester-like men throughout many of his works (“A Coat”, “The Fool by the Roadside”, “Two Songs of a Fool”, “The Hour Glass”, etc.), Yeats continually portrays the actions of humans as
me to count to four.” I relate to nothing more when it comes to my relationship with written English. I can string together sentences and write an essay, but please do not ask me the difference between who and whom, and god forbid I need to use a semicolon. Somehow, I reached my senior year in the English department and I haven’t gotten a grasp on things that are culturally considered part of a basic education. English is a lot like math. There are variables that need to be placed into a formula but
Final Exam Oh, how our teachers like to tell us that writing is so important. I used to not believe what they told us. However, after being in Mrs.Kigar’s Senior Composition class I learned that they are actually telling us the truth-writing is important! I’ve gained many new writing skills this year and realized many I already had. Additionally, I found some weaknesses in my writing and was able to improve upon them as well. I have always thought that my writing was mediocre, even substandard at
1.True or False? Everything is on the Web. False, Everything is not accessible through the internet. 2.True or False? Any information can be found on the web for free. False, things on the internet still need to be purchased to be available. 3.True or False? Google searches the entire web. False, not entirely True. I believe that Google on do a basic search for the material. 4.True or False? Every search engine returns the same results. False! Every search engine has its on way of searching
Informative Thesis Rough Draft Times are changing and tattoos are becoming a common trend. This is causing conflicts in the common workplace. Tattoos are being seen as unprofessional and this may not be the case. Workers should be judged by their work and not what happens to be on their skin. This art that is permanently found on their body was put there for a reason. Many people find their tattoos to be empowering and use them to express themselves. The workers want this freedom of expression and