As I read through this book, I began to understand how I myself could transform a single writing assignment into something much bigger, something much more important. I felt the influence right away. I began to understand the significance of poetry to a greater degree. I…
Strategies from read/write learning incorporated with strategies from kinesthetic learning appears to be effective for this writer. Recognizing new learning styles will improve the quality and speed of this writers learning and study abilities. This writer will not limit the learning styles but expand the knowledge by learning a variety of strategies to increase learning ability. It is important to be flexible in the learning styles to be able to switch from one style to the next style to enhance the knowledge that one needs to improve…
In this essay “How to Read Like a Writer” Mike Bunn, claims that college students should distinguish choices the writer made and decide whether they want to implement them in their writing; enhancing their level of writing. Bunn explains that reading like a writer is a strategy that questions, analyses and criticizes a text to make readers look at the structure, the style, the word choice in regards to several factors like: the purpose, the audience, and the genre. The author concludes that this strategy will also signal the writer’s argument. The essay ends by providing a step-by-step example to obtain structural analysis and familiarize students with this strategy.…
When a person begins writing they have many obstacles that they must overcome. Some face issues with creating well-written sentences, writing thesis sentences and others face issues with expanding their vocabulary. It can be difficult to do and takes a great deal of practice and patience. A student, Amanda Grumke, faced these same obstacles as she began writing. At the beginning of her English Composition 1 class, her writing landed at a very low level. After a semester of practice, she has made improvements. Amanda has improved her sentence structures, transitional words, and improved points of view.…
1). Sullivan discusses the topic of preparing for college and aims his discussion towards high school freshman and college students. The students he has found prepared enough for college had no difficulty reading materials of multiple ranges and subjects since they “loved to read” (pp. 1). Furthermore, students that are prepared know that exemplary writing takes exemplary effort, and they come willing to comprehend, study, converse, and evaluate their written works. Additionally, listening and thinking influences the different ideas that we can develop; this can affect our self-development and mental capabilities, which can increase opportunities for further engagement.…
I have accomplished a great deal in the past three months. As the semester ends I find myself reflecting not only on how I have survived the first semester but also what I have learned. Writing is hard work. There is so much more to it than just writing an interesting story. I also learned another important lesson; just because I worked hard on an essay before presenting it and reviewed the daylights out of it did not mean it was ready for submission. Every time I went back to read it I found new changes, typos and other mistakes I had missed before.…
From doing this assignment, I earned some skill of writing, in which I wasn't very…
Most people cannot recall their very first experience with reading or writing. However, the majority of people can recall the moment in their lives where the way they viewed reading or writing changed drastically. The pivotal moment that truly alters how one views the written word seems to be engrained in one’s memory. When someone chooses to write down and share their journey with reading and writing, whether it be discovering it or redefining it to themselves, they create a literacy narrative.…
The course I was taking was WRTG 101, taking this course helped me out a lot because it improved my writing skills a lot. When I was choosing this course I wanted to develop my ability to write in an effective way. The first hope was that the course will help me to develop my skills in different types of writing and expand my knowledge in different areas. The second hope was that the course will help me to writing full papers that make sense. Also, I hope that this course will help to understand papers written by other people and so that they are more clear to me. After completing the course, I believe that I am successful in achieving my goals of becoming a good writer. When I first started this course, my writing skills were not so good,…
Presently, I find myself enjoying setting down on my free time to write. The frustration and fear I had once thought of writing have gone away. At last, I can enjoy the process of writing, coming up with my own ideas and concepts to express my thoughts. Brainstorming, free writing, Star bursting is some of the techniques that have helped me to generate ideas to write papers. These techniques can help me make good argumentative papers for readers, write descriptive papers, narrative, and illustration papers. With this class I have learned how much, I love to write. I have made it a point to communicate my thought and believe through my writing. This English course helped built up my confidences in my own writing for that I am high appreciative of my instructor.…
This paper is a reflection of how I feel I improved in my writing abilities. Overall, I feel as though I improved on grammatical issues and giving explanations to topics I referred to. My analysis of my improvements will be based off of previous papers throughout the first semester English class until now. This portfolio will include four different styles of writing: a narrative, a newspaper article, an analysis, and a research.…
Improving my ability to become a great writer and write grade-A college papers is an important goal I hope to achieve by taking this class. My personal goals overall for this class is to gain the necessary elements and principles of writing, in order to further help my skills as a writer so it may lead to future success. As a writer my skills have improved over the years in things like grammar, thesis statements, outlines and critical thinking. Overall my skills in writing have greatly improved over the years, even though some may still require improvement. By completing this class over the summer, I look forward in reducing my weaknesses as a writer writer’s block and etc., in order to become a more significant and effective writer. Improving my writing skills has numerous benefits whether in college or things like vocabulary, keeping track of daily events, or even writing a journal of all the events taking place…
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The art of writing is a unique skill that requires the writer to have great flexibility and be open to improvement. Some may consider themselves a “perfect writer”, when in reality, no one is, and will ever be. Writing is a process that requires one to continuously build on skills learned in previous situations, applying new techniques and strategies to future writing projects. Different settings require different writing styles, and with that being said, one must be willing to change their writing skills to suit the requirements of their current setting. In the following essay I will reflect on past writing assignments, identifying my best and worst writing courses, strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and my opinion on why writing may or may not be beneficial to me throughout my career.…
It is any authors dream to be published. They have written their work, and think that it is the best they can do. However, when it comes time for them to publish what they have done, many authors find that publishers do not print everything that comes across their desks. Most of what an author tries to get into print is rejected, especially new authors. This group has an even more difficult time getting work laid out onto paper because they as writers are unknown, with book companies wishing to release works from more well-known authors as the public knows the older writers are good and do not want to spend money on some ones work that they have never heard of. In order to become published a new writer should…