If a tree fell in the forest and no one heard it, would it still have made a sound? In a way, each essayist faces the conundrum of writing about keenly important, personal subjects that the essayist wants to share. Yet, my learning in Writing 102 demonstrates that content alone does not suffice if clouded in uninspired, obscure verbiage. I have selected three topic essays that demonstrate three of my key personal attributes: my keen interest in equality, equity and intellectual curiosity, and how Writing 102 awakened my dawning awareness on the skills and techniques needed to capture a topic in a meaningful interesting way. Our class emphasis on the key precepts of good writing, effective thesis statements, interesting introductions that
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This paper, with its depth of content, mastered structure by following the P.I.E formatting, combined with extensive editing for linguistic success. “The use of symbols in Hills Look Like White Elephants all revolve around the underlying issue the couple is having about making some highly important decisions. As previously discussed the women, Jig, is avoiding communication with the man. The man, however, is not listening to what the woman has to say about the matter.” over time developed and transformed itself into a more appropriate P.I.E formatted introduction to the usage of symbols in “Hills Like White Elephants” and, furtherm morphed into, “As noted throughout this discussion, the pervasive use of symbols in ‘Hills Look Like White Elephants’ all revolve around the underlying issue facing the couple and its impact on other decisions and life choices. The obscurity of their discussion and veiled reference to the operation indicate that both of them are avoiding the word, abortion, a tact that clearly does neither of them any good. In fact, the two have very different ideas of their future.” The key lesson: Topic sentences really need to reflect the overarching ideas of the paper, instead of just introducing new ideas without regard to order. This is where Genre Knowledge really clicked with me. The more I made sense of the organization of my papers and the importance of directed topic structure, the more the papers made sense to the reader as well. All of the foregoing demonstrate the level of learning achieved to create a result that brought the reader in touch with the topic of equality, in this case between men and women, and obliquely, to some extent, my own keen interest in that
This paper, with its depth of content, mastered structure by following the P.I.E formatting, combined with extensive editing for linguistic success. “The use of symbols in Hills Look Like White Elephants all revolve around the underlying issue the couple is having about making some highly important decisions. As previously discussed the women, Jig, is avoiding communication with the man. The man, however, is not listening to what the woman has to say about the matter.” over time developed and transformed itself into a more appropriate P.I.E formatted introduction to the usage of symbols in “Hills Like White Elephants” and, furtherm morphed into, “As noted throughout this discussion, the pervasive use of symbols in ‘Hills Look Like White Elephants’ all revolve around the underlying issue facing the couple and its impact on other decisions and life choices. The obscurity of their discussion and veiled reference to the operation indicate that both of them are avoiding the word, abortion, a tact that clearly does neither of them any good. In fact, the two have very different ideas of their future.” The key lesson: Topic sentences really need to reflect the overarching ideas of the paper, instead of just introducing new ideas without regard to order. This is where Genre Knowledge really clicked with me. The more I made sense of the organization of my papers and the importance of directed topic structure, the more the papers made sense to the reader as well. All of the foregoing demonstrate the level of learning achieved to create a result that brought the reader in touch with the topic of equality, in this case between men and women, and obliquely, to some extent, my own keen interest in that