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When I reflect on my experience of this EH091 class, I cannot help but think that there has been a flame kindled from a spark made from the challenges laid out in the syllabus and module assignments setup for the students’ learning. I knew that I absolutely loved reading and learning but what I wasn’t prepared for was what I discovered about myself in subsequent. In the past, I had been named in my classes in high school as a gifted artist and a decent poet. However, the living of life: being a…

First Stage Frustration: What is a Critical Analysis Essay? I have never written a critical analysis essay before. I was confused what to write. Thus, I started reading a couple of critical analysis essays but most of them were analyzing someone’s work. I looked at the syllabus and it said, “This assignment asks you to expand upon the topic you introduce in your Exploratory Essay by thinking about it in a larger context and using additional sources to serve as evidence of your claims.” So I…

The article I selected for this essay is Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. David shares a story of his experience in learning to speak French. He writes about his fears and the challenges he faced. I found the article to be quite humorous and very entertaining. The article’s theme of achieving goals through hard work, dedication, and persistence is because the author worked hard to overcome his adversities, he stayed focused on achieving his goal, and he did not quit even though he faced…

Throughout the course of English 10803, I have come to the realization that rhetorical strategies are a crucial and valuable part of writing. During the construction of my Portfolio Four essay, I kept all that I have learned and am currently learning in my mind as I typed out each word and phrase. I feel that in order for the audience to connect to and understand my argument, I must take a wise and orderly rhetorical approach in my writing. The effective, rhetorical features within my essay…

connections that made a big difference by the end of the paper. I also pushed myself to learn and incorporate new ideas and techniques within my writing. In my portfolio I showed my growth from highschool to college and my growth through my time at the college. I continued to connect it to my other class’ at WVC and how my new writing skills and techniques transferred to my success in other classes and other areas…

Everyone hates English class is what I thought before taking English 102. However, that may have been the case before I entered Dr. Byrd’s domain, but after finishing the class I have come to the realization that English class can be greatly resourceful. English 102 this year has had its ups and downs, and I must admit the ups outweigh the downs. Meaning, this year, I have learned that I am not a student who wants to read or write, but through reading and writing my mind and skill sets…

enhancing them. After taking into consideration on which two essays would be easiest to critique, I decided to revise the “Place-Based Writing Essay” for the long essay and the “Hemingway Place-Based Essay” for the short essay, which were my two best papers I wrote for the course.…

Words have always been of great importance to me. As a child, I loved stories and fantasies and books and anything with the magical power of transporting myself to another world. As I worked with my abuela in her garden I would maunder about a fictional land and a character named “Mariana” who was very similar to myself. Only, slightly better. She was prettier, smarter, more popular and frequented many adventures that I desperately craved. She was my escape. She took my dreams, my anxieties and…

semester in college and as soon as I was handed my syllabus my palms started sweating and my heart was pounding. I was not used to seeing all the work we would be doing in the class on one piece of paper, so I found it overwhelming. My biggest fear was not having the skills needed to apply the theories to a paper. However, as we started I realized I had no reason to be worried I was great at it! In my fall 202 class I learned that I have abilities with both inward and outward looking theories,…

Poetry has been a significant part of literature for many years, going all the way back to the eighth century. Usually, when most people think of poetry, the first thing that pops into their heads are haikus or sonnets because those are the two talked about the most in schools. I only remember learning about haikus in my early years of schooling and did not learn about sonnets until I reached high school when we started talking about William Shakespeare. People define poetry as a literary work…