Basic writing

As I reflect upon the three essays assigned in RWS 200, I realize the countless strategies that I learned to help improve my writing. My improvement can be seen chronologically among the papers. The strategies that were most effective in my writing were, ATCC, rebuttal, and evaluations. Essay #1 and essay #3 emphasized the importance of the credibility of our sources. My topics, arming teachers and vegetarianism, were controversial so there were many articles about them that supported my…

smarter more prepared student. When I came into this class, the atmosphere was so much more different than the high school atmosphere that it made things that I was learning about make a lot more sense. In my high school English classes we know the basic how to write an essay but in this class, I had a better and deeper understanding of how and why we do certain things in an essay.…

and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (par. 3) and that anything other than those “problems of the spirit” are not worth writing about. The ways he lived up to the standards he set were through the characters in his book The Unvanquished. The book takes place in the 1860’s-70’s centered around the maturation of a young boy named Bayard. His resilience, maturity, and basic capability to function as a person of free will is tested numerous times throughout the stories. “The poet’s, the writer’s,…

determination, I always had the highest English grade in exams, which indeed drove me to become more complacent with the grammars and materials you taught in class. At the time, I regarded English writing as a two-step process: form a draft in Chinese and translate it into English. I began my English writing career with a great start and gained a lot of confidence from your class. Out of the classroom, you seemed more like a friend to me. Watching the latest version of American television…

When working in the news writing industry, you must be constantly up to date on everything that is going on in the world. My discipline includes writing news stories and media writing. In order to give trustworthy news to the people, you must use trustworthy sources. There are two types of news today; unplanned and planned news. When reporting on planned news it is most fitting to use authoritative sources. “A scholarly, or authoritative, publication is one in which the content is written by…

also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many more. Mr.Karan spoke about how he was influenced by american writers and how he feels that when writing it should flow like music on a page, he claims he allows the sentence structure to take him to places he has never been before to enhance his creativity. When writing The Association of Small Bombs, Karan used a lot of Indian words but did not translate or use footnotes because he wanted his work to be plain spoken. He…

something you hate is beyond bothersome. Scott had given me writing assignments and I wasn’t trying that hard and winging them. I felt guilty slacking off. He was a really good music teacher and had done so much for me. The thing is I just didn’t have any inspiration. My days were all the same, just repeating the motions, life was very vanilla. I always loved writing but I never knew exactly how to. I didn’t know how writing should make you feel…

Ferederick Douglass and Malcolm X Comparison Essay Fredrick Douglas who was former salve and uneducated, learned basic reading form one of his mistress Sofia Auld. He managed to further his education form outside resources since his wife forbids Sofia form teaching him. Malcom X, who also had semi similar background when it comes to education thought him self-writing in a way he sound literate. Although Malcom X revived education it was very limited since he has to move from time to time as he…

speaking, listening, communication of ideas, and reading and writing. Children can think more effectually as they develop language skills to structure their thought process, but the development of thinking strategies helps with the attainment of language skills allowing the teacher to model language structures that the child can put to a determined consumption.…

floor. You live there? There. I had to look to where she pointed - the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. 5 In this paragraph in the story, the author does not follow the guidelines for writing as usual. She uses no quotation marks and doesn’t specify who is speaking every time. I feel like this gives hints of dialect because we were introduced to this character has someone who cannot speak english well because it is not their…