Your Experiences With Writing 101

The name is Jagdish Vasvani. Currently majoring in computer engineering at the American University of Sharjah, I aspire to be run a business in this field. A few preferred hobbies are swimming, playing football and sleeping, after I joined AUS. The topic given for this essay by professor Craven is “Your experiences with writing 101”. Briefly, it was a radical change from high school writing which included letter to the editor or an email, to university level writing that consists of writing five paragraph long essays. Initially, most of the students seemed clueless about the subject’s guidelines and tasks. However, with the help of the professors, most of us managed to do well and gain immense knowledge about the subject.

Writing a five paragraph essay in two hours is just as challenging as it sounds. Apparently, this was the task given for the final exam of writing 101 in the American University of Sharjah. For most of the high school graduates, writing
In other words, a review of an essay or an article. It consists of 5 components: the introduction paragraph which gives some information about the author; summary of the essay, a brief overview of the essay; evaluation of the essay, the fallacies pointed out in the essay; the response paragraph, contains the opinions of the critic towards the essay; and finally the conclusion, a suggestion from the critic to the author of the essay. The critique written could be either positive or negative. In comparison to the other types of essays, writing an academic critique was an easier and boring task. There is no brainstorming involved in this type of writing which made this piece of writing facile yet uninteresting. Also, the respect given to critics by the society or famous people is pretty less. However, their reviews helps the writers improvise their writing skills and hence providing the public with a good piece of writing to