Academic writing

Anne Grujich, one of the best students I have worked with in 29 years of teaching and counseling, is an exceptional young woman. Annie transferred to our school last year in the middle of 11th grade. This can be a very difficult transition, but Annie’s adjustment has been remarkably smooth. She continued the Advanced Placement classes she began in her former school, hit the ground running, and succeeded magnificently, earning three 5’s and a 4 on her AP Exams. This year Ms. Dana Meute, AP…

notice of academic dishonesty leveled against me by Dr. Nicholas Forge, my professor of "Foundations of Community Partnerships.” Before proceeding, I will like to provide you with background information of my academic sojourn at Georgia State University. I attended Georgia State for my undergraduate studies in Social work between 2014 and 2016, and I graduated with honors, cum laude and I will like to point out the through my undergraduate studies, I was never involved in any academic related…

Homsi said this in regards to academic integrity at the American University in Dubai (Quotes about Academic Integrity). Looking into the subject of academic integrity there are many ways and positions on how people may define it. It is important to fully understand academic integrity to abide by the morals and values it upholds. Houston Baptist University believes: In practice, academic integrity means holding oneself to the highest ethical standard in all academic pursuits – doing all…

and forms arise on a daily basis and allowing creativity to flow is an unending process. Through the process of writing and the writing done in the class, I have come to learn a great deal about myself and others. Writing acts as a form of communication. People…

and control of social groups are made possible with language. As society changes, language adapts to suit the present culture; evolving from the creation of new words to define a new concept. Children who develop all three language forms: Reading, writing and speaking are able to learn knowledge, express feelings and articulate ideas; this, in turn, empowers children to construct a social identity. 2.1 READING Reading is an active method of creating meaning from text (Winch,…

One of the first ways I insulate my own writing from plagiarism is to remember that I am paying my own "price" to create this intellectual property. I owe it to each individual who is informing/influencing my writing (through my research of their work) to honor their hard work in the form of citation. In addition to professional respect and honor, here is a list of the other practical strategies I will use to ensure all forms of plagiarism in my writing and creative works: 1. Cite sources…

reading and writing. Learning to read was way harder than I had expected it to be. Of course it wasn 't rocket science or anything, but it seemed to come naturally to my family members and others who read to me. I understand now that it was because they had been doing it for years, but learning was definitely a struggle. Even though reading interests me and I love to do…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, there will be various difficulties and struggles one will deal with and during this semester of Freshman Composition, I have achieved and overcome several different obstacles with my writing skills. Overall, I feel that I have made great strides and achievements in this class and the evidence can be located throughout my portfolio where my instructor can find proof of the following: attention grabbers otherwise known as the hook, the usage of 5-7 sentence…

For many years, I was instructed to write my thesis statement first and then start writing the essay. It turns out there is another effective method to writing good thesis statements which is to begin writing the essay and write the thesis statement later on. A thesis statement is extremely important because it paves the way to what the essay will be about, that is why it is so important and why…

into English 111 thinking that I wasn’t going to glean much information, after all I’ve been writing in various forms for a while now. Boy was I wrong. I’ve learned how to effectively outline essays, properly cite other author’s works and overall I’ve become better with punctuation. These were all points that I struggled with as a novice write, randomly placing commas wherever, haphazardly starting a writing project without any kind of guide and not giving credit to those who deserve it. Though…