Essay Paper

No I do not write perfect papers. I may try, but in all honesty I do not. In order to make one’s writing better you must be willing to revise and edit your paper, not once, not twice, but many many different time. This is why it is also very important for someone to be able to look back over their own papers and have the ability to not only fix the little mistakes but see when and where it connects. Connects I am directly talking about with not only the audience, but the time period, and the…

writer, and knew I lacked certain grammar skills needed in order to succeed in writing. As we were told in the first days of class the course work that would be done by the end of the quarter I lost more trust in myself of doing well with all the papers. At that point I knew I would have to make strides to better my writing every single day in and out of the classroom. Before anything in this class finding a topic presented a struggle, and this was because I felt I needed an easy topic to find…

It really helps me when I use it during my writing assignments, because I use it as a guide to have a better paper. Through the GAPCaT I learned how to focus on the matter that I would like to write about without losing my point. Knowing who I’m writing to was also one of the things that I had difficulties with, but now I can say I have learned how to make that…

Portfolio Assignment Throughout the Rhetorical Analysis paper that I completed for this English 101 class, I called back to many of my past experiences in high school that allowed me to interpret the meaning of the song that I decided to choose. The main skills from my past that I referenced were: my ability to comprehend text, my ability to convey a message through an essay, and my ability to view a text with an open mind. Opening my mind to the text was one of the more challenging abilities…

For most of my papers I had a pretty good understanding of what my purpose needed to be for each of them. I would have to say that I struggled more with the reading response essay more than the others because I realized that I wasn’t quite understanding what the assignment was for that paper. I liked that the essays were more personal so it made it easier to know who my audience was and what I wanted my purpose to be. I was happy with my first essay because I really tried to make the stories and…

after writing a few papers for you, I have noticed that I never really paid any attention to my works cited and just slapped on some citation that a website gave me. My writing was good, but I never bothered to learn why I did things, I just knew that things were supposed to be done that way. I haven’t learned everything, of course, but you have managed to teach me many reasons why things are the way they are. Another realization that I came across while correcting my papers is that I didn’t…

When I started this class I was unable to properly write papers. My thoughts and words were all over the place making writing the papers difficult. I didn’t know how a thesis worked and I really had no idea how to use it to setup my papers and go into detail. Now with the understanding of a thesis I can write a paper and use my thesis to go into further detail. Before I didn’t know what a thesis statement was or how to use it to write my papers properly. I always thought that a thesis statement…

accomplished my goals because I worked really hard and focused on every single paper. In the beginning, writing seemed challenging. Now that the semester is over, I can sit and write a three-page paper in little or no time at all. I am able to do this because of all of the notes we took. When I felt stuck or unable to write anymore, I would look back in…

My introduction paragraph was not up to the senior level writing. My writing simply didn’t make a clear path that allowed me to carry my ideas throughout the whole paper. The flow of each sentence was choppy and that made it difficult for anyone reading this paper get into the essay; therefore, I need to start including transitional words, phrase, or sentence so the reader and I can easily read my essay faster and with ease. Another thing that I would change is the thesis that I made. It was…

more detail about the issue sooner. When writing this paper, I started off really vague about the issue talking about how in general things break. However, it should be mentioned earlier that the things that are broken are property at a university that needs to be fixed. Going through my proposal, caused me to quickly realize that this paper doesn’t flow very well. The ideas need to be more organized and more concise. This also cause the paper to seem all over the place and disorganized. The…