gained expertise with citations, research, and have overall improved my skills with argumentative and persuasive essays. The narrative essay served as a pleasant starter to the course, as it helped train proper writing structure. The persuasive essay had a topic I greatly enjoyed, which encouraged me to research the Germanna online databases, as a result it has undeniably the best citation page. The argumentative essay had a complex topic that required research of online databases just to narrow…
currently obtaining an Associate’s Degree in General Liberal Arts. In the English Composition II course, she has learnt how to write various essays such as the Beliefs and Values, Argumentative, Art Critique Essay. She learned when it is appropriate to be objective and subjective, how to write an essay without using personal pronouns and how to critique her peer’s essay bearing in mind that people have different backgrounds. Furthermore, she has mastered the art of critiquing, by providing both…
professor so that the student can use these techniques in his future essays. Blogs, draft reviews with our peers and various other activities helped achieve these learning outcomes. There are a total of 5 projects and 10 blog posts which we had to finish to pass the class. I have achieved goals like writing about rhetorical situations, researching a topic I am unfamiliar with, making an evaluated and researched argumentative essay and describing my stance through an infographic. Writing these…
For the argumentative essay, there was no need for additional research. We kept the same topic, so I was able to simply utilize the same sources from the expository essay. This is why I initially believed it was going to be an easy process. While going into the essay, my first priority was learning how to use the Toulmin method. The Toulmin method was difficult since I had never used it before, therefore I was prepared to do some research on it before I began writing. Upon learning some aspects…
the past few months, I noticed that our English class essays has been giving me skills necessary to become successful in today’s society. Knowing how to write personal in our in our Hupomnemata, and argumentative in our research papers will help me in out farther alone in not just my schooling, but in everyday life. I have taken many English courses in my life but this was the first one where I truly learned how to write a well thought out essay. Starting out with the annotated bibliography, I…
The three sample pieces I chose to include in my portfolio are an argumentative English essay, a book report written for an AP science class, and a lab report. These pieces illustrate my proficiency in multiple subject areas including research and argumentation. The first piece presented in my portfolio is an argumentative essay written for my AP Language and Composition course. The given essay, written by Edward O. Wilson, and AP prompt were taken from the 2009 AP Language exam, found on the…
grades for my essays were really not bad, I still feel that insecurity that I could have done better or it’s just hard for me to give myself credit. Mr. Dutt, my instructor, has given us the right amount of homework. I felt it was a smooth process to achieve the assignments at my best. For example, we worked on our rough drafts in and we took the opportunity for Mr. Dutt go over it with us individually, he taught us how to express ourselves in the correct format that we are writing an essay…
babies, I wanted to dig into see how much of the glamorous stories were true. My main object of the essay was sugar babies, but I had to make my research from the sugar daddies view. Majorities of the exposed sugar babies were optimistic about their positions, but some of sugar daddies were blunter to talk about their involvement in the relationship. This assignment was expansion of the last discovery essay. It was very interesting to see myself…
signed up for English Comp. I did not realize the high standards my writing would be put up against. The different types of essays we were taught to write really helped me grow as a writer I believe. With the ad analysis, comparative essay, narrative essay, and the argumentative essay I learned many new and different skills. The first essay we wrote was the ad analysis. For this essay we did five paragraphs analyzing an ad we had to find ourselves. After scanning through multiple magazines and…
Over the past year in GSW I have learned more for me to become be better writer. This course 1120 has shown me that I have improved from the last semester. With this semester the essays have helped me with the idea of being a little more open-minded and light in my essays just so I don’t offend people when they read my work. I think that I should pass GSW 1120 for the way that I have learned and improved more than first semester or the beginning of this semester. Rhetorical Knowledge is…