Writing papers for school has given me the opportunity to learn more about a variety of topics. I returned to college about six years ago after a very lengthy hiatus. I enrolled in three classes at Charter Oak State College (COSC), one accelerated course at a time. At that time some of the more interesting papers that I had written were on Designer Babies and comparing the Modern and Post Modern theories of play. I struggled with the new way of doing research, I originally started college in 1980, but once I got the hang of it I enjoyed learning about the topic. What I also struggled with was deciphering the credibility of the sources that I found. I again took a few more years off from school and recently returned to COSC. I just completed
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I tend to work best in the morning when my mind is fresh and uncluttered from the events of the day or at night when everything is quiet. If a thought or direction for the paper should randomly come to me or if I can’t sleep at night I can go work on my paper without having to first organize all of my material, by that time the thought is long gone. Working in this organized chaos seems to work well for me for the most part but learning that there is a reason for the word “rough” in rough draft has taken me some time. I use to try to correct all errors and rewrite a sentence until it was to my liking before getting to the end of the paper. In doing so I end up losing my train of thought pretty quickly and this can become frustrating. Now I go back and revise when I have completed writing. I will repeat this process until I am satisfied with what I have written. This is something that I also will do when I write for my own personal …show more content…
All authors have their own unique style of writing and that style is going to attract a select audience. A good writer will capture the attention and interest of the audience and keep it. Doing this is something that takes a lot of practice and if willing to put that practice in and learn from mistakes that anyone can be a good writer. Personally, I enjoy reading a variety of genres of books but at this point I would have to say that my favorite writers are Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. Hemingway is very direct in the way he writes and I enjoy reading about the different adventures that mimic his real life adventures as well as the characters that are mostly based on people that he has encountered in his life. His books give some insight into the larger than life personality that he seemed to possess. I like the way that Steinbeck uses a lot of description of his characters and scenery. You get the sense that you know the characters and it becomes easy to empathize with them. I like to read a book and feel as if I have been transported to another place and/or time. It is my escape from
I tend to work best in the morning when my mind is fresh and uncluttered from the events of the day or at night when everything is quiet. If a thought or direction for the paper should randomly come to me or if I can’t sleep at night I can go work on my paper without having to first organize all of my material, by that time the thought is long gone. Working in this organized chaos seems to work well for me for the most part but learning that there is a reason for the word “rough” in rough draft has taken me some time. I use to try to correct all errors and rewrite a sentence until it was to my liking before getting to the end of the paper. In doing so I end up losing my train of thought pretty quickly and this can become frustrating. Now I go back and revise when I have completed writing. I will repeat this process until I am satisfied with what I have written. This is something that I also will do when I write for my own personal …show more content…
All authors have their own unique style of writing and that style is going to attract a select audience. A good writer will capture the attention and interest of the audience and keep it. Doing this is something that takes a lot of practice and if willing to put that practice in and learn from mistakes that anyone can be a good writer. Personally, I enjoy reading a variety of genres of books but at this point I would have to say that my favorite writers are Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. Hemingway is very direct in the way he writes and I enjoy reading about the different adventures that mimic his real life adventures as well as the characters that are mostly based on people that he has encountered in his life. His books give some insight into the larger than life personality that he seemed to possess. I like the way that Steinbeck uses a lot of description of his characters and scenery. You get the sense that you know the characters and it becomes easy to empathize with them. I like to read a book and feel as if I have been transported to another place and/or time. It is my escape from