In the essay that I wrote “Being a Giver and Success” I quoted, In other words of Adam Grant in Are you a Giver or a Taker? He states, ‘We all have moments of giving and taking. Your style is how you treat most of the people most of the time, your default’ (Grant 2017).
As this essay shows to introduce a quote you first must write a short sentence introducing the place where you got it from and the author. Then after that start with writing a verb describing what the author is doing when saying the quote, something like he said, or he states. Lastly I wrote the complete quote accompanied with quotation marks, at the end of the quote I put in parenthesis the last name of the author and the year the article was published. In the reference page of the essay I …show more content…
In the essay “American Dream and Angelina Jolie” I wrote, “The American Dream represents the hope and the hard work to accomplish a goal or a dream that you have. Angelina Jolie is my trailblazer because she is a humanitarian and because of how inspirational, successful and very powerful women she is” (Roldan). I will say that the easiest part for me on an essay is introducing my thesis and topic. On my English 12th essay called “Who is the real monster: Victor Frankenstein or his creature?” the teacher congratulated me for my organization and how a summarize my conclusion. When I turned in this essay I thought that it wasn’t going to be that good but at the end it resulted on me getting an A on it. As writers, we must take risks and one risk that I took was including more detail on my conclusion, I tried to summarize my whole essay taking out the most important stuff and putting it on the conclusion. As I started on the conclusion I first addressed why victor was consider a monster, then how his behavior and selfishness lead him to a doomed end in a lonely and dark life
As this essay shows to introduce a quote you first must write a short sentence introducing the place where you got it from and the author. Then after that start with writing a verb describing what the author is doing when saying the quote, something like he said, or he states. Lastly I wrote the complete quote accompanied with quotation marks, at the end of the quote I put in parenthesis the last name of the author and the year the article was published. In the reference page of the essay I …show more content…
In the essay “American Dream and Angelina Jolie” I wrote, “The American Dream represents the hope and the hard work to accomplish a goal or a dream that you have. Angelina Jolie is my trailblazer because she is a humanitarian and because of how inspirational, successful and very powerful women she is” (Roldan). I will say that the easiest part for me on an essay is introducing my thesis and topic. On my English 12th essay called “Who is the real monster: Victor Frankenstein or his creature?” the teacher congratulated me for my organization and how a summarize my conclusion. When I turned in this essay I thought that it wasn’t going to be that good but at the end it resulted on me getting an A on it. As writers, we must take risks and one risk that I took was including more detail on my conclusion, I tried to summarize my whole essay taking out the most important stuff and putting it on the conclusion. As I started on the conclusion I first addressed why victor was consider a monster, then how his behavior and selfishness lead him to a doomed end in a lonely and dark life