Personal Essay

be writing every day I worked while in the Marine Corps. I came into this course with a strong understanding of journalism-style writing and reporting. Now that I have taken this course, I have a more well-rounded understanding of other important essay styles. While in training to become a journalist, I spent seven months learning a cookie-cutter method of newspaper writing and broadcast script writing. I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan immediately…

During my time in Dr. Kennedy 's ENG 111 class, I have been pushed way beyond my limits of capabilities. Before in high school, I had no idea what a rhetorical analysis was. But here it turns out to the normality. Normally, we would just read a book and then answer questions based on said book. We also had only used citation once if lucky prior to the senior project. But there wasn 't much need for detail. But nevertheless, without my experience here at RCC, I would have never known the amount…

help me write different types of essays, help with math, and it has tutoring (Smarthinking,2013). I can even change the language of an essay if I needed it to. I can schedule a tutor or I can just drop in on a tutoring session. Smarthinking also have an app that I can use on my mobile devices like on a smartphone or on a tablet. On the Smarthinking app I will have all the access that I would have on a computer. I can save any of my sessions and have a personal archives. In the writing…

many times where I have had to give up some of my personal free time in order to meet the deadline given to us by Mrs. Garth. Throughout the first semester of Composition I, I realized the strengths and weaknesses I have in writing essays. To begin, the first essay we wrote in class was a narrative essay on a moment that changed our lives. I wrote about the time that I pulled over to help a homeless couple with two children. This was the easiest essay we did all year because we just…

are many different techniques when it comes to writing an essay and I am not sure how to incorporate these strategies when I begin writing. Even though I have these weaknesses, I continuously work to improve my writing. I have worked hard throughout this class to write the best papers possible, but I accept there…

Before I turned in memoir number one in college comp, I had confidence in my writing. I attended comp last semester, and developed adequate writing skills for the class. However, as the teacher handed my essay back, I gasped at the red marks all over the page. I acquired a fourteen out of thirty on my first memoir! My confidence level nose-dived, and I experienced a wave of depression. The unfortunate grade evoked a feeling of anger towards myself. I believed I had improved my writing skills…

In my writing career I have had many good essays and also just as many bad essays. I wasn’t a very good writer until my freshman year of high school. It was a very big changing point in my life that I will never forget. My middle school wasn’t too hard about essay grading but when I went to high school at Memphis University School (MUS), it was a wake up call for sure. Writing isn’t something that came naturally for me, I had to work my ass off to get where I am today and I still am not near…

What writing means to me and why I prefer to shy away from it, until now. Being an Adult Learner, having been out of school for more than 30 years my weaknesses outweigh my strengths. My greatest weakness in writing, I would have to say is my spelling and use of grammar. I have recently been diagnosed with a slight learning disability which explains my problems with spelling and grammar. Having 4 children who I am very close too helps alleviate a huge portion of my inhibitions about writing,…

After reading your work from Essay Workshop and Advanced Creative Nonfiction, the subject matter is expected and concerned with reaching beyond what some might only see as simple, ugly, or undesirable. The specificity of your intention in examining Clarion and its culture is articulated well and with confidence. I think your plan on having the narrative told out of chronological order, showcasing scenes of the past, present, and eventually one in the future is a wonderful creative choice for…

The essay was easy for me to write because I felt passionately about the topic. My love of reading made this section of my paper easy to construct. Narrative writing allows my feelings to be put on paper clearly and create a bond with my readers, so it has become one of my favorite forms of writing. Writing Assignment 2 allowed my creativity to flow as I worked with an unfamiliar form of writing. I had never worked with multi-genre essays but I think that this form benefitted…