and schools. An example of such evident in the implementation of new grading rubrics for English teachers across America in 1923. The essays of 12th graders nationwide, who wrote under the same conditions, formed the base of a design for a national rubric, consisting of a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 was the highest possible score. The analysis of differently graded essays reveals the series of values that the system promoted. The national grading system primarily encourages the use of Standard…
present my writing development with rhetorical purposes and basic formats applied. The first essay I choose to present is “ Mom” which is considered as the literacy narrative. It reveals me about my development in my childhood, which was affected by my mom a lot. I realized that I became more mature and independent when I discovered that my mom lost her ability to listen to the world. At the beginning of this essay, I used a flashback after the conversation between my grandma and me because it’s…
A woman by the name of Anne Tyler once said "If I waited until I felt like writing I 'd never write" I never realized how true this was until my teacher made me write a short story. I hated writing. Research papers, speeches, stories, I didn 't like them. I didn’t they were necessary. I had a creative writing class in the 11th grade. The class was just put on my schedule. I didn’t want the class so, just like the other students in that class, I tried to get out it. Nobody could leave.…
of writing this class was going to be beneficial to strengthen my weakness even though took part A already of this remedial class this B part is to add the final touches to making my writing college level. In my portfolio it will contain different essays that begin from the beginning of the semester till the end of the semester which has improved in my eyes. This class challenged me every time I was there because it required to push myself for better not…
writing improve, is clearly shown from my first essay in which I received a below standard rating on my focus criteria because my overall point was unclear and confusing. My final sentence of my introduction paragraph reads “he seems to be stating that the teacher is teaching a totally alien or foreign concept that cannot be understood.” This final sentence leaves the reader confused about where this sentence fits in with my main topic. My second essay I received a standard rating and…
this essay, I will be discussing how my previous essays directly correlate to one other in many different ways including the utilization of multiple articles, rhetorical strategies, and the use of ATCC (Author, Title, Credibility, Claim) and analysis as to why the essays contains these writing strategies. First off, in my essays one and three they both posses rhetorical strategies that are used to strengthen the authors objective and make their points more credible to the reader. These essays…
As I have been typing this essay though I have come to realize that I don’t like writing in the slightest other than for practice, it is too time consuming and it bores me. The part of writing that I seem to struggle with is writing itself. This is due to the fact that I don’t have…
and expressing my views. This assignment helped improve my writing and reading in several ways. I overcame struggles in my writing, reading and found innovative ways to progress through these difficult texts in the development towards writing this essay. The process of going from “Madman”, “Architect”, “Carpenter” and “Editor” was a tremendously useful tool in the creation of my paper. These progressions and workshops allowed myself to have a focused task instead of worrying about everything at…
to write well-organized essays by planning my essay using pre-writing techniques, including outlines. In English 1010, brainstorming is used part of the pre-writing techniques to help the students take the information they have at hand, and attempt to consolidate the information into an outline. After brainstorming and collecting all the information to have on one sheet, or more, my professor encourages me to start my outline. Outlines give me a better look on what my essay will look like and…
touch of creativity by not being creative at all. I am going to treat this essay as a cool down lap after a full on sprint of a quarter. My goal is to exhibit my growth as a writer by taking a more informal approach towards the prompts that were given. Every essay that I wrote this quarter has been influenced by some sort of interest, observation, or experience. I personally enjoyed writing the “Arguing a Position” essay the most because I argued against being politically correct, a position…