Academic writing

CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing. “CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers.” College Composition and Communication. 52.4 (2001): 669-674. Print. In response to the increase diversity of the student population and the increase of second-language students in writing programs, CCCC urges writing programs and teachers to recognize the increasing presence of these students and “to understand their characteristics, and to develop instructional and administrative…

It is easy for an academic writer to get carried away with the complexity of the contents in the various compositions they construct. Complex background information or an intense use of academic jargon may serve to limited the understanding of some readers. The level of complexity is kept relatively low throughout the entirety of Roth’s essay making it available…

something that should be so simple, I make it complex and find it hard to be as specific as possible. So far I enjoyed Writing with Purpose, Expository Writing, Making a Plan, Writing Elements, but I 'm still trying to make sense of Week 4 Comparing and Contrasting. I had…

basic academic essay writing skills, is what you will need in your entire university lives. Now, I have finished my first academic essay. And I’m happy that I can gain such much useful writing knowledges in this learning experience. I still remember that in the 2nd lesson, we are asked by the tutor to finish a needs analysis, which is about…

Randy: I really liked the format of your response. It was very well written. I too am a criminal justice major. However, I have never had a very strong interest in writing and am hoping this course changes that. Your College Composition and Literature course sounded very interesting, and I think I would have benefited from a course like that. I couldn 't agree with you more regarding having difficulties organizing a paper. I often struggle with this as well, and I hope this course helps me to…

from the academic content units to the seminars and the guided independent study I estimate that I reached a reasonable level of what I was planned to reach. In the following paragraphs, each component of the course would be discussed to show what each one of them add to me and where the deficiencies were. In the academic content units, which refer mainly to the book "Thinking…

Over the years, my interest in reading and writing has come in waves of highs and lows. As a fan of movies and music and a student, my reading history varies from articles in magazines, books made in to major motion pictures, and scholarly readings such as text books and academic journals. Apart from reading, part of my literacy history is writing. Being a student, I have written numerous amounts of papers from research papers, narratives, and expository essays. I also blog regularly for my own…

tend to get anxious about my performance. In this circumstance, walking into Rhetorical and Composition II has not been an easy journey for me. Looking back on past English classes that I have taken, and comparing my work, I am impressed on how my writing skills have improved. This class in particular has been a fundamental step in improving my skills, and has allowed me to become an effective and critical thinker, reader, and writer. I remember my first semester in college. It was my first…

My heart drops when I look at this essay, knowing my undergraduate academic performance was average at best yet I excelled academically during my postbaccalaureate program. I try my best to give details surrounding my fluctuating academics at Springfield College. In high school, I enrolled in two semesters of AP Spanish senior year and earned a C in both semesters. Freshman year of college my course load was more ambitious than I found myself able to handle. Attempting to balance 18 credits…

As my first semester is almost ending, I learned a lot on academic skills in ENG194 class. In my opinion, from this class I learned not only learning academic skills, but also what need to notice in college life, and even after graduate. As academic skills, we learned the format of academic writing and teamwork. Like writing letter has its own format, the academic also has its own unique style which plays an important role in essay. With a standard format, the essay could indicates the clear…