Essays

I achieved this with my reflective essay. In the reflective essay, I reviewed my work throughout the semester. I explained how my different writing pieces and satisfy all four learning objectives of the course and reflected upon how I can improve and can use what I learned in the future. Additionally…

teachers and coming up with an essay at the top of my head that properly fit the space requirement and prompt that I would then turn in the day it was due. However, since I began taking Freshmen Composition I, I have found that it is not only immensely wearisome to improvise five to seven pages on the spot, but also nearly impossible when the essay requires exact textbook and outside sources that must be cited on a work cited page. To be quite honest, I did not…

I wrote an essay, What Methods Would Effectively Prevent the Spread of Ebola?, that identified ways to stop the spread of the Ebola Virus. Every month there is a new, highly talked about topic of interest. These past few months, this topic was Ebola. It became one of the most talked about topics in Fall 2014 because it was brought to United States from Africa, where it has been an ongoing epidemic. Many citizens feared for their lives about what was to come. When talking about Ebola it is easy…

characteristics which allows them to contain their own place in writing. I have decided to pursue my essay topic on the genre of persuasive essays or in many cases have been known as argument essays. A persuasive essay is a form of writing that attempts to persuade the reader to adopt a certain point of view or to take a particular action on its topic of display. This requires the writer to begin his essay taking a position for or against an issue in which he plans to write about. This will…

My Dracula essay in Mr. Jensen’s British Literature class was the first time I truly understood how to write an academic essay. Throughout my highschool career, starting with Mr. Pilla’s Advanced English class in the 9th grade, I could never quite grasp the concept of writing an essay, or more specifically the thesis of an essay. Working on my theses throughout AP American Literature and Composition, I figured out the…

100, we have written 3 essays each one having different main ideas. The first article we wrote was a profile essay, we interviewed a person or place of our chose and wrote about what it was like to be that person for a day or be at that certain place for a day. The second essay was about a review on something we enjoyed so I decided to write about Grey’s Anatomy of course. Our last essay was about a proposal on a certain idea or headline in the world. I decided to write my essay about why…

There are many types of essays that at some point almost everyone has written. Some of the essays include a narrative, a descriptive, a persuasive, and expository. “Those are the four major types of essays” (Time for Writing), and they are also the ones I will be talking about in this essay. There are more like a cause and effect, a comparison, or also a research essay. It is a good thing to know the differences between essays, so one doesn’t write a persuasive when told to write a narrative…

into a crime. When asked to decide on a topic for this essay, my mind immediately came to the idea of homelessness in Idaho due to my previous knowledge and encounter with the concept. In order to find materials/supporting evidence for my topic, I looked mostly towards news articles and governmental reports for my statistics and data, while leaning more towards journals and magazines in order to connect with the idea on a personal level. My essay faced many stages of editing, cutting,…

my goal was to work on my thesis statements. For my second essay this semester my thesis statement was “if he…

five-paragraph essays has become a popular cultural trend. By comprehensive look at the five-paragraph essay and picking apart its different aspects, it explains the cultural significance the five-paragraph essay holds. When viewing the five-paragraph essay’s significance, it shows that conformity of the five-paragraph essay plays an important role in the authors writing. By breaking down a five-paragraph essay into its different elements, it is easier to understand what the five-paragraph essay…