Basic writing

assignment to write a report about monkeys. For an eight year old in 1965, research consisted of pulling the M volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica from the living room bookshelf. I was so proud that I could reach this volume and began vigorously writing my paper. I copied all the information I could from the pages about monkeys and even cut out some photos of the Gibbons to spruce up my one page paper. My mother came into the kitchen and saw me sitting there with the scissors and Elmer’s…

For 245 years there was slavery in america. White and black, owners and slaves, divided by race.” Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass takes place in the mid 1820’s when slavery was at its peak. This story starts off talking about how he views his Mistress as a kind, christian lady, until he tries to read. if he was caught reading he would get strongly reprimanded. He made friends with the the nearby kids and asked them to teach him to read one sentence at a time, over a period of…

feedback for the student to reflect on before submitting their essays. The main objective of an essay grader is to classify the facts and terms which are being used in the written essay. An AES is also used as a rating tool that gives numbered scores to writing tasks based on the instructor’s rubric or based on the data collected from all essays the program has graded. (Mark D Shermis., Cynthia Wilson Garvan, Yanbo Diao, University of Florida) The issue with using an…

Humans send many nonverbal cues, from fidgeting to foot tapping, long pauses to eye contact. Reading those signs is a skill “that young people are not learning when they are using these devices”(Bindley). These are just some of the basic things that technology can cause you to miss or understand.All these nonverbal cues and gestures signify something. Now imagine someone you love is dying and they are having an asthma attack, but you do not understand their nonverbal cues. All they…

she expresses in the beginning pages of her enlightened manifesto, “Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not ‘if only.’ Not ‘as long as.’ I matter equally. Full stop” (Adichie 6). With this in mind, readers begin to see the basic principle of feminism: socioeconomic equality of both men and women that should be applied humanity in its entirety.…

to strategically pull off this type of writing, and was able to show character…

paper is for me to write something that will give me a good grade.The last goal of this paper is for me to be able to work efficient and get things done on time. Survey Results We were asked to take two surveys a Career Clusters survey, and a Basic Skills survey. These surveys were important because they can maybe influence what you choose to do in the future. My top two clusters were Human Services and Hospitality and Tourism, I agree with those because I want to be a chef when I grow up…

Christy had told our class the basic places during syllabus week, places like going to office hours, academic media services, and the library. However, during this assignment she also told me she would recommend going to the writing center. She also told me when she was in college she was a “nerd”. Meaning, she liked to read a lot, and was always studying. This relates to what she…

On the topic of participation awards, Lisa Heffernan and Vivian Diller have both published articles advocating either for, or against rewarding children at a young age, regardless if they’ve won a game or not. In terms of making a strong argument, both writers used celebrity testimonies, life experience, and quotes from reputable sources, some tactics more effective than others. In Lisa Heffernan’s article favoring participation trophies, “In Defense of Participation Trophies: Why They Really…

Sylvia Plath would later be recognized as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the post-war era. Plath was raised in an academically focused environment; her father was a biology professor and her mother was a shorthand teacher. Contrary to the writing style of the time, Plath wrote about genuine emotions experienced by women. Additionally, she wrote about personal life events and the people that surrounded her. The poem, Point Shirley, was about a town that bordered hers, and two other…