Cognitive style

I am staring at the screen with the paragraphs that I have written for my story, but everything sounds wrong. No sentences flow together. No words are properly chosen. No real connection to what I have expressed onto the paper. I have encountered this situation too many times, yet it is always a comfortable affliction. Writing stories brings forth my personality because I could see myself in the characters. I get to immerse myself into a fantasy world that I have created and it can never be…

What was it like working toward meeting your second benchmark? My initial plans for my second benchmark was to have a first draft completed of my fake news library resource page. Working towards this benchmark was challenging because I had been trying to get in touch with a UCSB librarian before I began writing my first draft. In order to make sure I was heading in the right direction, and to get some positive feedback on my project proposal. I was able to get in touch with the Writing…

This week’s work was focused on two themes that I feel guided my learning to becoming a more effective teacher of writing. These themes included developing as a writer through writing invitations and teaching students how to write effective sentences through sentence combining instruction. Living “The Writing Life” In completing this week’s writing invitations, I really challenged myself to try out different genres of writing in response to the prompt. I started off the first writing…

In my World Religion Class, I have recently been given the assignment to write a couple two-page papers on the Holy Trinity of Hinduism and Karma. To be able to write these papers I decided it would be helpful to read through the Hinduism chapter of the World Religions Textbook. The video, “How to Read Your Textbooks More Efficiently – College Info Geek” by Thomas Frank outlined some tips for reading textbooks for a reason other than just to look over a certain amount of pages in a certain…

Growing up I was never a big fan of books or writing. I would cringe whenever I was given assignments to read a book that I would have to write an essay on, and always looked for a way to get out of it. I remember doing general research on a book rather than taking the time to read it. I think I continued to stay this way until about ten years ago, when I began to write reports while serving in the military. I started to learn that it was more of an art form rather than just putting my ideas…

in this course, my various thoughts about English 177 as a whole and anything else that comes to mind. Firstly, I gained a lot of knowledge from this course. I learned about the various different styles of writing an essay like argumentative, persuasive, cause and effect, definition etc. Each style of essay drastically expresses the writers content in a different way. For example, if you are arguing a point you would write an argumentative essay and follow the argumentative essay plan (which…

The process of the research paper that was most challenging was organizing the paper. The reason organizing the paper was hard because I had to decide what was important information and how much of the information should I explain in depth. For example, my paper is about the history and benefits of Planned Parenthood, I had to go through and make sure I add extra information on events that led to the building of the first Planned Parenthood and recent history that was important to add. The…

Dear Colleagues: For writing project 1, we did not argue about whether McCarthy’s strategy was effective, we assumed it was effective and instead argued about which rhetorical elements, we believed were crucial to the understanding of his strategy. I argued that his introduction, his use of the three appeals (specifically ethos), and his diction were most crucial in the success of his strategy. I believe my essay has many strengths, and these include my organization and the structure of my…

This portfolio contain the two essay that I have been working on throughout the term. My portfolio shows the new technique and style I have throughout in the course. As I reflect at the end of writing 090 class, I am able to see how much I have improve as a writer. I have learned my greatest strengthen and weaknesses. Engaging in peer editing and getting feedbacks from my profession and staff in the learning center help me to improve my mistakes. My portfolio includes my spirit club essay and…

Introduction: The child that we did our project on is Carly Coella. She is three and a half years old, and her birthday is May 23rd. Both of her parents are teachers in the Bourne school system. The Coella family lives in Sagamore Beach. They have a very close bond with one another as well as their extended family. Carly is very social and has many friends in her preschool class. The family is very involved in the community. She is an only child and has a bunny named Fluffy. Carly is very…