What are three specific characteristics or habits that distinguish successful university writers from those less successful? In today’s time period high school graduates (or soon to be) are becoming less prepared for the challenges to be faced in college. They aren’t taught the important skills set to handle the college career during their transition. High school doesn’t teach them how to handle college academically or emotionally. Today, the most important characteristics or habits that distinguish successful university writers from those less successful are they take very challenging English courses in all four years of high school: such as honors classes, AP courses or IB-program courses at your high school in English Literatures: students
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In the article “Students can 't resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you” Bob Sullivan argues that students cannot go minutes without being distracted by some electronic, and that its affecting the logic skills to pass test or write papers etc. Bob states that “One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test” (Sullivan). I agree and disagree because of the fact that some students can work/study better if they have music playing, but my thesis is still correct because of the fact that majority of the students cannot focus with all the distractions. There’s many distractions that come in all different shapes or sizes. There’s external distractions and internal distractions: external can be people talking, TV, music, text messages, and the noise around you. Internal distractions along the lines of, illness, being tired, hungry, worries about things, and other distracting thoughts. Of course having many distractions going on when you’re doing homework or studying can cause the brain to have encoding errors. Successful college students can minimize all if not some …show more content…
Students can put that skill into their writing. Students writing will show the confidence and the accuracy in their writing. Which can lead to them becoming a success university writer. Looking at things such as the smaller victories can help you realize how great your life is. College students know that the bigger victories take time, and waiting can be very time consuming. Surrounding yourself with happy people can show a positive effect on your life. Those people share a similarity with you that can help you in class, work, or social settings. Positive students don’t wait until they achieve their goals to be proud of themselves. They be proud of every step they take towards reaching their goals. My great grandmother was a very wise woman. She could sit and talk about life, and the aspect of it without taking a breath. It was like her brain was developed on a “positivity machine.” She would give me advice on how to focus on my positivity, and what to do when I eventually get to college. One thing she would always say was “don’t let a rainy day wash out a sunshine for the next day, and the storm will pass.” I could never at the time understand what exactly did she mean by that, but then again I was only eight years old, and all I wanted to do was play outside. Today, I never thought more precisely about a quote in my life. When my days become dark and gloomy, and all I want to do is
In the article “Students can 't resist distraction for two minutes ... and neither can you” Bob Sullivan argues that students cannot go minutes without being distracted by some electronic, and that its affecting the logic skills to pass test or write papers etc. Bob states that “One found that people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test” (Sullivan). I agree and disagree because of the fact that some students can work/study better if they have music playing, but my thesis is still correct because of the fact that majority of the students cannot focus with all the distractions. There’s many distractions that come in all different shapes or sizes. There’s external distractions and internal distractions: external can be people talking, TV, music, text messages, and the noise around you. Internal distractions along the lines of, illness, being tired, hungry, worries about things, and other distracting thoughts. Of course having many distractions going on when you’re doing homework or studying can cause the brain to have encoding errors. Successful college students can minimize all if not some …show more content…
Students can put that skill into their writing. Students writing will show the confidence and the accuracy in their writing. Which can lead to them becoming a success university writer. Looking at things such as the smaller victories can help you realize how great your life is. College students know that the bigger victories take time, and waiting can be very time consuming. Surrounding yourself with happy people can show a positive effect on your life. Those people share a similarity with you that can help you in class, work, or social settings. Positive students don’t wait until they achieve their goals to be proud of themselves. They be proud of every step they take towards reaching their goals. My great grandmother was a very wise woman. She could sit and talk about life, and the aspect of it without taking a breath. It was like her brain was developed on a “positivity machine.” She would give me advice on how to focus on my positivity, and what to do when I eventually get to college. One thing she would always say was “don’t let a rainy day wash out a sunshine for the next day, and the storm will pass.” I could never at the time understand what exactly did she mean by that, but then again I was only eight years old, and all I wanted to do was play outside. Today, I never thought more precisely about a quote in my life. When my days become dark and gloomy, and all I want to do is