when I speak. Words are my dance routine, my concerto, my ballad, my art. I went into this Technical Writing course expecting to learn how to express myself through other means, such as charts, graphs, PowerPoint and the like. Instead, I learned that all it took was to take what I’d usually say, cut it down by half or so, proofread it twice, then hand it off to my wife to once-over for tone, something that I still struggle with, apparently. I feel stifled when I cut my works down, though;…
methods/approaches for my lesson as students in an actual classroom can benefit from a variety of methods and approaches. Lesson Objectives For my lesson plan, I have three lesson objectives. The first objective: Follow directions and use learned vocabulary in completing a task is essential for students to complete the tasks in the lesson plan. The principles of Rod Ellis, the opportunity to interact in the L2 and opportunities for output are key components…
that international high school in Shanghai, I known what I need to do is try my best to speak, read and write English as first language. I was anxious, because the only contents for English I learned in middle school was just words and sentences. I never wrote an essay more than even a hundred words and I neither read even a single article more than one page. I sat in the classroom, facing the first foreigner teacher in my life, Mr. Fine. And I known deeply inside that what I had on English was…
in 1874 in San Francisco California. When he was 11 he experienced his first loss when his dad died of tuberculosis, and his entire family moved to New England. His moving to New England affected his writing a lot in one way. When Frost writes he sometimes writes in a autobiographical way referencing time from his life in New England. He then got married at age twenty one…
10120 10/22/16 Free write #3 So, I did not write the first argumentative paper, and since I did not I will choose a topic and then write the opposite of what I agree on, since that is what we are supposed to do. I have struggled to find a topic to write about. That would be why I did not write the first paper, but I need to buckle down and work harder. I have noticed I have not been doing so well in this class… But I got my motivation back. Now my subject will be…
The topic of my TEDtalk would be “invisible diseases”. I would address the common misconceptions of these afflictions. I would describe my own experience with them and how I have overcome them. Invisible diseases, mostly mental disorders, are things people live with day to day but you would not know it from just looking at them. These range from depression to anxiety to learning disabilities. The treatment for such afflictions may be therapy or medicine. There are claims that these diseases are…
prone to distraction. Writers therefore often need a place to write in which they are isolated from other people. Just north of London, there is a small hamlet down the road from an excessively grandiose manor, both called Childwickbury. Childwickbury used to belong to Stanley Kubrick, a popular movie director. Since Stanley's death in 1999, the estate has belonged to his wife, Christiane. Last summer, I stayed with a college friend of my father's, Stanley's son-in-law, who lives on the premise…
you wanted me to revise my research essay because I did not have parenthetical citations, but during my writing center visit I asked about those and I learned where they should be and how they should look. When I revised my papers I tried to think about the questions someone else who is not familiar with the topics would ask about my papers and I answered them. I did this more so for the narrative because I am the only one who knows exactly what I experienced during my retreat, so I tried to…
believe that great writing is the result of one being gifted. That a person can just wake up one evening and write their best work without any effort. This misconception often leads to individuals discouraged to write and create myths about the process of writing. Truthfully, writing requires a lot of efforts. Even the most experienced writers face difficulty with finding inspiration to write and often depend on methods to facilitate their writing.…
all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books” (Franklin, 9). Franklin’s pursuit for education only grew stronger as he grew older. Franklin, comparable to Douglass, knew that his writing could only become stronger with more and more practice, therefore Franklin, “grew more attentive to the manner in writing and determined to endeavor at improving” (Franklin, 11). To improve his writing, Franklin would tirelessly read and then re-write works attempting to capture the…