I believe that the Broncos are going to own this football season. Yes, I believe that, but that’s not my main belief. Could I go on and on for pages and pages on that belief? You bet I could, but I’m not going to. Instead I’m going to tell you why I believe I shouldn’t have to write this essay.
The number one reason why I believe I shouldn’t have to write this $#$#1$#$# is that I’m not in school, which means that I don’t want to do anything that is work related. I just want to sit on my butt, watch movies, be obnoxious, and maybe improve my nonexistent Call of Duty skills. Video games and I don’t really get along, in fact, besides for Guitar Hero, we never have. Instead of wasting my time here, I want to go and obliterate some aliens or maybe just rock out with Green Day Rockband. The last thing I want to do is schoolwork. If you think that my reason is simpleminded, half-baked, unintelligent, or even just plain idiotic, I’ll stop wasting my time and yours and move on to reason number two.
With the video games behind us, I’ll explain my second reason for believing I shouldn’t have to write this essay. Can I please get a drum roll? No? That’s too bad, because I have some very talented percussionist friends. Anyway, reason number two is this: I have already written an essay with this same prompt. It’s not new. In fact, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this essay prompt. I could have just recycled my old essays, but that is dishonest, and I could never live with myself if I did that. Besides, I’m a writer, and I actually enjoy writing essays. Those of you who don’t must have a screw loose, and must be thick, mindless, and moronic. Of course, I could be the one who is witless or short minded, since the matter of intelligence...
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...it can’t be fixed. Where reason number five should be is nothing but a conclusion, in which I discover something that many of you have probably already noticed but haven’t pointed out because you were kind enough not to interrupt me. Thank you for that, by the way. What I have discovered is this: while spending all my time and energy writing out why I believe I shouldn’t have to write this essay, I have written an essay. I have produced an essay in which I state my belief and give reasons of why my belief was valid. Now I really must thank you, o great assigner of this assignment. You have made me do something that I had no desire to do. You are really quite clever, witty, crafty, intelligent, bright, brainy and overly intelligent. In the end, it seems that I really am the one who is simpleminded, half baked, thick, mindless, moronic, and who could forget, witless.
Do you ever wonder why do we work for a living? Why we spend all of our childhood and years as a young adult training our mind and body for our future workforce? Do we do it for money? For love maybe Or do we do it because we have no other choice? In the first sentence of "Why do we work" By Andrew Curry, the author states as an option that we work because we have to. I strongly disagree with that statement and here 's why. My entire life I have been told that you need to do certain things growing up in order to be successful. We are brainwashed by these words "You need to" constantly and it scares people from taking a different
One might compare this to the grueling, tiresome and back-breaking efforts of writing a good essay. Many of us have been writing essays for a long time now. Some of them are A papers, and well some them not as good as we thought they were. Throughout the years, teachers have shown us the proper technique and several examples of papers,
We would do research on a subject or a person, and write about them. We, once again, were not allowed to be unique in our writing or think creatively or critically. This is the time when I was taught the five paragraph essay. As stated in Gray’s article, the five paragraph essay is detrimental to students’ writing. This format for writing is damaging because it doesn’t allow students to express their own ideas about a topic. It does not allow for any creativity or uniqueness in a paper. In tenth grade, I wrote many papers for my English class, but I never once got an A on them. I was led to believe that my writing was weak because I could not relate to what I was writing about. I did not have any emotional connection to the research papers I had to write, and it made it harder for me to write them. I had grown up not being allowed to think critically, and therefore, my papers in high school lacked creativity and deeper
...use of this issue. Even I prefer learning for my own pleasure over school work, but this competition is what molds students into high-achieving individuals. Having to work up to a deadline, conducting research, and collaborating with peers for group projects are all necessary tasks in the "real world". It is true that success can be achieved without school, but school is only one of the many pathways an individual can choose in order to become educated. School provides students with the ability to strive in the real word by providing them with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed. When asked what I am studying for, I can say that I am studying to become someone who can make a difference. I may not enjoy the stress and anxiety that comes with school, but I cherish the fact that school is providing me with the knowledge and skills I need to further my dreams.
persuasive essays that need to be written, and the time you need to be a teenager. Most students even have so much work that they’ll stay up all night just to get it done. done. I will be able to do that. When needing a minimum of 9 hours of sleep as a teenager, get up at.
In this essay, we were to evaluate the ideas proposed by the author. Isolating and analyzing the key claims within the text. This essay required us to provide justifications used by the author to support those claims and provide an analysis of the ideas. I chose a fictional text for this prompt called “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. The argument from this particular story is that everyone carries a burden. The justifications that I came up with to support this claim was Lt. Jimmy Cross’ strong infatuation with a girl named Martha and how all the soldiers carried some kind of burden, either physical or emotional. I needed to provide evidence to support these justifications. Some evidence I provided to back up the justification was how a soldier named Ted Lavender died on duty and how Lt. Cross blames himself for Ted’s death because he was concentrating more on Martha than his own crew. My feedback for this assignment wasn’t that good. I didn’t fully understand the prompt and that caused me to get a bad grade on the essay. The professor said my quotes were awkwardly used in this assignment and that I needed more cohesion between my thesis and the surrounding sentences. I noticed that I still need to work on my grammar techniques. One thing I did realize about my feedback was that I had less sentence fragments, so I count that as an improvement. It wasn’t required to make a revision memo
Claim, evidence, warrant. Students have been writing these essays for their whole school career, but have never been asked to write an essay that is freely written. I believe that as a student, we should be asked to write an essay based on nothing other than our thoughts because that is what sparks creativity and new ideas. As Klinkenborg said it in Several Short Sentences About Writing, “Do you remember feeling, when you were writing a paper for school, that your vocabulary was steadily shrinking? By the end, the same few words seeming to be buzzing around and around in your head, like flies weary of feeding. That’s a symptom of boredom. You were bored from the start and for a good reason. You were repeatedly asked to persuade or demonstrate or argue, to reiterate or prove or exemplify, to go through the motions of writing. You were almost never asked to notice or observe, witness or testify. You were being taught to manage the evidence gathered from other authorities instead of cultivating your own” (31). To put in short, as a student I have never been asked to write on my own and instead be dependent on other sources. An example of this from Ongoingness by Manguso would be this quote, “The essential problem of Ongoingness is that one must contemplate time as that very time, that very subject of one’s contemplation, disappears” (72). Manguso
My form and structure are not always the best. In one of our more challenging essays, the Rhetorical Analysis Essay my form and structure weren’t as strong as they should be. As stated before, I made the mistake of not staying focused on the rhetorical elements of my topic and venturing my own personal opinion in the essay, which crowded and weakened my form and structure. Continuing with Murray’s path, the development of my essays is based on the rubric. I always seek to include information that the rubric is essentially telling me to include, but sometimes I fall short of developing my thoughts enough. The dimension of my essays also has inconsistencies. I tend to have a problem of expanding into great detail on one point of my essay leaving another point barely expanded upon leaving my essay disproportionate. Finally, the last thing writer’s look for in their essay is their own voice. Thomas Osborne in Late Nights, Last Rites, and the Rain-Slick Road to Self Destruction states “I strive for a good grade, and will work as hard as possible to achieve one, but there is a voice in the back of my head that is effectively scoffing at the ridiculousness of some assignments and expectations that I have had to complete and live up to.” My voice sometimes gets lost in assigned essays when I try to fulfill certain standards that are put upon me. Thomas and I both struggle with writing what we need to write in order to achieve the grade
There are several reasons I choose the topics, I wrote about. Some of the reasons where personal, the others based on my interest in learning more about the topics. My personal attachment came from my own memories that the essays reminded me of. My writing skills at the beginning of the semester was, at an elementary level, but now that I’ve had practice. I’m beginning to flourish with talents that come alive at the tap of key. As I looked over the essays I wrote, I am able to see the clumsy mistakes I made along the way. Now, in the future I can avoid being picked out of the crowd as the amateur writer.
Argument. If you have a clearly defined opinion about the subject, support that opinion by incorporating the valid viewpoints of the writers of the essays you have selected, and show the weaknesses of those ideas which you feel are not valid.
In conclusion, there are a couple of important\influential reasons why I chose to do my homework everyday. The first reason is that doing homework helps you do better on school grade, which helps helps you to go in college. The other reason, that homework helps the kids review the things that they learned at school. That's why Homework is
When I actually feel the need to write is when I am taking notes or I am in a language arts class. I take notes in class to keep up with my studies, but I do not think much effort is required because I have a motive to take notes; however, I think the effort required in writing most essays discourage me. I realize that I also have the motive to maintain good grades when I write essay, but it just seems that I want to quit halfway through. Beyond schoolwork, I think the obvious purpose of writing is to communicate with one another. Communication seems to be the primary function of
The average student has written their fair share of persuasive essays. The quality of these essays often depend on the students’ knowledge of the make-up of a good persuasive essay. A major component in persuasive essays is the argument. In order to write a good persuasive essay attention should be focused on the argument. The quality of the argument determines the strength of a persuasive essay. By considering the rhetorical situation in the planning process, and the elements of the argument in the writing process, effective persuasion can be achieved in an essay.
The reason is because even though I get distracted easily and I am not good at expressing myself through writing, I know I can do this because it is not impossible. I know that my message is going to be deliver to the readers, if its is well written, and they would understand what I am trying to say through the essays that I write. I am not the best, I am not the worst, but I can do it because I like to challenge myself on this that I are not easy for me, so I just keep working hard to achieve my goal. I won’t be as great as I am on math, but I do it because after the work is done, I accomplished another task in my life that it is difficult to do, personally.
The first solution to being bored at school is to make classes more exciting. To make it more interesting is teachers should not talk all the time and work quietly all the time. Teachers got to know what the students like to get them to listen. If teachers have them listening then they are not bored. Teachers have to play more games that involve education that are made up because if the students are having fun then they are not bored and they will remember what they were learning and students are having fun than the teachers will have fun too. It will work because the point of this essay is getting rid of being bored at school. Another reason it will work is because the more fun students have the better it is to teach them what you need to teach them for the class period. This solution ...