Basic writing

improve my expressive writing skills and teach me skills to organize my texts in MLA format. Our introductory essay was a diagnostic essay about ourselves. After Mrs. Keller gave us some basic instructions we began brainstorming. At first I thought this should be easy, but I quickly realized that knowing the material does not automatically mean, putting it on paper is easy. Therefore Mrs. Keller provided us with worksheets that helped us organize our notes before we began writing. It took me…

Out of the many lessons I learned in this course I enjoyed learning the aims of writing, expressive aim, referential aim, persuasive aim, and literary aim. Although my writing experience in the military was writing papers in referential aim and persuasive aim, the reason I choose the three essays below is because they were written in expressive aim. While I was making corrections and editing these three essays, I noticed that there was one common mistake not only in these three essays, but in…

properly. Writing is one of the language skills in English. According to Nunan (2013) as cited in Hamid (2004), writing is a process and product. In the process, the students create, plan, make draft, revises, until the final writing. Moreover,…

Literacy personally, is not just the basic understanding of reading and writing. It is the ability to be knowledgeable in a subject or concept, and be able to understand it. It is being able to apply the things that you have learned into real life situations. It’s analyzing something and being able to interpret it into something more meaningful. It is more than just books and readings, but everyday things that people might encounter. The value that literacy holds is immense. It can be…

materials being made and the behavior being shown shows the basic steps of production process. Another argument made is the development of production. An appeal made on this argument is the history that has made human category groups, which has been the development of enterprise. Who is making these arguments? Guy Debord is the author of this piece of writing. He is the one who is making the arguments in this essay. He does a good job writing this essay. An argument for the readers may be that…

Restrictions of Essay Writing in a Curriculum: An Evaluative Essay on Fred Stenson’s “In Search of a Modest Proposal Fred Stenson’s essay “In Search of a Modest Proposal” (Essay Writing for Canadian Students with Readings, 340) expresses his disapproval of essay writing in the grade nine curriculum. Stenson feels that essay writing should be a creative process towards student’s personal opinions, but the curriculum sets guidelines that the students must follow which prevents this. His reference…

Writing can be a difficult and a nearly impossible skill to master without time and patience to properly express the writer’s ideas correctly onto paper. Each writer 's process is unique for expressing their stories or ideas but there are differences and there are similarities for each process. Robert Caro was not bound by time to create his literary art and spent most of his life perfecting the books he has written not settling for less to accelerate the finishing of the books. Caro made sure…

Over the next few pages I plan to look into a few of the research sources that I’ve come across in the past month or so doing research for our Individual Endeavor. However, I am not writing to draw conclusions and create a thesis statement. Rather, I plan to dive deep into what makes each piece of writing what it is, from its audience, genre, situation and medium. The first source that I will be exploring in this essay comes from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. The article, entitled…

Learning reading and writing became a very important thing in peoples' lives because people can get their basic knowledge through reading books or writing a paper. Some people think that the ability to read and write more important today than in the past. Others do not think so. In my view, I agree that the ability to read and write became more important nowadays, for these two important reasons. First, reading and writing skills help people find a better job. This is important to help people…

As like others, I have always dreamt about coming to college to achieve my goal of being a business worker. However, before I attend to college, my English was not good enough to achieve high grades in classes. I have been ashamed of how awful my writing was and wished I could able to improve in the futures. I began my college English class from INRW 0420 to ENGL 1301 to experience English skills and develop my…