Writing circle

anything related to the English subject wasn’t my favorite. I hated poetry, I wasn’t an avid reader, and my skills in writing weren’t all that great because of how much I disliked it. Where I lacked in English, however, is where I excelled in Science and Math. However, as the years have passed by, my tastes towards school subjects have altered significantly. I began reading more often, writing became a new pastime, and Science slowly deteriorated into one of my worst subjects. Motivators were…

that concerns a lot of scholars. The amount of knowledge and skill requires for someone to have written these type of works does not match up with Shakespeare’s background. From looking at what Shakespeare has left behind, and from a couple proven writings, some perceive Shakespeare to have been a pseudonym for a much more known actor and writer of the time. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it…

Atwood and her work, Atwood was heavily awarded and an extraordinary writer, Atwood has been writing since a young age and has known what she has wanted to do for a long time. Atwood was impacted by many people in addition to her father. “The position of her father as a prominent entomological researcher had a profound effect on the eventual career of his daughter” (Gray 73). Her father's work inspired her writing. Atwood was also influenced by many different causes like feminism, civil…

This week’s readings gave us a completely different style of writing. Unlike Fadiman’s ethnography, Dempsey seeks to capture the essence of andleg mál at face value and without any serious attempt at defining the sociological aspects that underline the Icelandic people’s experiences. I personally love this because she is respecting the wishes of whom she is writing about. She says in the introduction (13), “When I asked people what they wanted most to find in this book…I often heard the hope…

Over this semester of schooling my writing has changed dramatically at times and very little at others. Through my years of schooling people have determined my weaknesses and strengths that I would need to work on in my writing. In this academic writing course, I got to assess my own strengths and weaknesses based on the trouble I had writing, feedback, and overall grades. In all my years of school, I have always had trouble beginning an important paper. The longer it was, the more I…

Chapter 10 in Writing and Revising talks about Strategies for arguing. When you make an argument you need to begin with and a thesis. When you draft your argument paper, you will want to make sure that you have enough background information on the issue that you are discussing. It will help the readers understand and appreciate the controversy as well as making sure that the argument that you are making is justified. Your thesis will not only state your position, it will also from the basis of…

represents EE104’s ability to solve math problems using basic skills and problem solving. Task Analysis EE106 was able to correctly identify a circle and a triangle. EE106 was able to correctly write the number 5. Given a list of numbers, he correctly pointed to the numbers 5, 7, 9, and 10. When provided with a list of numbers and letters and asked to circle only the numbers, EE106 circled both the numbers and letters. When asked to point to the symbol that means “add” or “plus”, EE106 was not…

freedom to select which kind of dinosaur the story is about and what their dinosaur likes to eat, play with, etc. An entire unit of fiction and non-fiction read-aloud lessons on dinosaurs prefaced this assignment. Students were already given other writing assignments that assessed their knowledge of different dinosaurs and, therefore, this assignment was more aimed to assess overall student…

author tells a version of their own truth. Through each perspective, the mind is forced to think and examine another's point of view, changing the truth after each person reads it. Different interpretations cause different truths, and each piece of writing can change this. Not all secrets should be shared. Every person make mistakes, and sometimes it is important to keep these mistakes a secret, because if they are shared they may hurt people. Knowledge is power, so why should one person be…

The writers’ method of writing is clear and well thought out, but there is also the matter of what is actually being communicated, as appose to how she gets her thoughts across. While Tan explains the difficulties that her mother has with communicating clearly, she makes it clear that she has an unwavering respect for her mother, regardless of her misgivings and barriers. Although there aren’t many references to this fact directly in the text, it’s a kind of undertone that sets in with the…