political or otherwise. In his essay, titled “A Truly Modern Hero”, Vonnegut argues that an obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis should be viewed and modeled as a hero. He begins his essay by stating his intentions in his paper--at least purportedly. Vonnegut goes on to expand in detail on each of his three major subjects: honor, “guessers”, and Semmelweis as a hero. Each of his points leads into the others, and the entire essay builds on itself. He ends his essay with a few final comments…
focus in each of my essays was to stay organized and focused. My RBAA essay, “Tackling Racial Injustice,” argued that players in the National Football League (NFL) have the right to take a knee during the national anthem and nobody should disagree with their actions. In my Media Analysis essay, “Honesty is the Best Policy,” the main focus was to persuade my audience to live an honest life and quit judging people based on their appearance. My Synthesis essay, “,” analyzed two essays and found the…
Tipless I decided to write about tipping for this essay because I have been a waitress for over two years and it is really irritating when people do not tip. It was easy for me to think of things to write about since I have had so many experiences with it. I made the title “Tipless” because the essay is about not having any tips. I incorporated examples of my own experiences with tipping as well as others’ in order to get a wide variety of stories. I also added in how tipping originated and who…
English Diagnostic Essay Adam B. Summers wrote a persuasive editorial, “Bag Ban Bad for freedom and Environment,” using many persuasive details to make his argument. Summers is able to appeal and relate to his audience. The different tactics that Summers uses is rallying pronouns, hard, cold facts, and extensive support and diction. The author writes about how banning plastic bags is hurtful to the world and economy in many ways. With deliberate thought, Summers chooses words like “us” or “our”…
I have been writing for over half of my life. Throughout the years, my writing has developed from simple sentences, to profound paragraphs, and finally to embellished essays. During my development as a writer, I have explored many different aspects of writing, and as a result, my writing portfolio from the past four years is diverse and well-rounded. As I started to think about the pieces I wanted to include in my English portfolio, I reminisced about my writing classes and assignments…
Narrative, Critical thinking and persuasive / argumentative are styles of writing has allowed me to learn the format structure that works for all styles of writing. Although the style are different the format does not change in the writing structure of the essay. I had grammar and spelling issues as well, but with help proofreading and revising has helped me to find my errors. Narrative writing with dialogue has proven to be one of the most challenging essays of this course. Although…
senior, I didn’t know what to do, what to write, or where to even begin with the two essays. I was lost and confused. I strongly believe that learning how to write and create my personal statement is extremely significant to me because it taught me how to be very detailed, yet short and straight to the point, speak with emotions without being so overly dramatic, and lastly, it taught me how to write a well structured essay. Everyone always mentions how important it is to write your personal…
advantage and put them into my writings. Before taking this class, the only other writing I did was essays for my other language arts classes. Some classes that I have taken in the past prior to Intermediate Composition were; middle school language arts, English 9, and American Lit. Some essay categories that I have written before were; argumentative, reflective, personal, persuasive, and definition essays. By taking these…
when there is nothing to choose from.” Education and cultural analysis are two topics very different. And this is why Brent Staples wrote two essays about those topics with approaches and analysis different. From “Black Men and Public Space” to “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s”, there are a few similarities and a lot of differences. In the first essay, it seems that the author was expressing his own experiences by showing to us how hard it is to be a black in the society and how he…
their own writing style. Some work best with music in the background, and some work best in silence. Others like to organize their ideas, and others find that jotting all of their ideas down on paper is a better method of writing. For me, writing an essay is a time consuming process. First, I like to write one sentence at a time, and then go back and revise it. I find that starting off with one sentence and going back to revise it helps with keeping the flow of the paragraph. Next, I like to…