Composition

that considers Composition English, including one and two, as necessary core-curriculum course for all majors to prepare the student for future major-guided classes required to graduate. The final goal is to efficiently develop the skills of the student to help them succeed in their further college 's studies. Specifically talking about Composition English 1020, the course focuses in to develop the student writing skills, with a higher expectation than the previous course of Composition English…

Throughout the first semester of College Composition, I wrestled with three essays, all differing in format and content. The first was a narrative that reflected our educational experience. After this came an analysis of a visual text, followed by a research paper. The narrative was the easiest to write; however, I acquired important skills for writing the other two, which were in a less familiar format. With the three essays, I learned about my own writing skills and habits concerning…

1. Describe the current racial composition of the United States and explain how it has changed over time. African American: Dye and Macmanus (2015) reports, there are approximately 41 million African Americans in the United States, comprising of 13 percent of the total population. Prior to World War I and World War II, 89.7 percent of all African Americans were concentrated in the south. Dye and Macmanus (2015) suggests that, due to the hardship in the south and the Abundance of jobs in the…

Taking your AP Composition English class has been a frightening yet successful challenge. Personally I have always struggled with the English language since it is not my native language. Freshman year I was denied into the honors English program as was the case sophomore year. In my college prep classes I noticed I was not making any noticeable gains, so that was when I realized I had to challenge myself by taking your course. The rumors stated by current seniors made the class seem impossible.…

We analyzed these rhetorical elements in a whole new way through these two sources. In Introduction to Composition we analyzed the use of ethos, pathos, and logos which was the second time I was introduced to the use of these rhetorical elements, the first was in high school in my Honors English Class. I’ve never had to look for these elements in a movie before…

Throughout Composition II, I have explored and evaluated different assumptions people generally have about today’s society. When learning about these common assumptions, I participated in class discussions and learned about other people’s point of view which has helped me understand and respectfully refute ideas contradicting mine. Additionally, I practiced creating my own topics based off the common assumptions. Along with learning and discussing assumptions about society, this semester, I have…

English Composition I taught me a lot about myself, including how to be a better college student, through the process of writing. At the beginning of the year, I was not very excited about having to write argumentative papers. This is because I did not care enough about the assigned topics to have an opinion. But, I did learn a lot that I would not have known otherwise from having to research information about the topics I chose to write about. For example, in paper #2, I wrote about the niqab…

I am very happy with my grade and I have enjoyed freshman composition. The day I first walked into class, I thought that I was going to fail. Freshman composition was my only college class of the semester and this made me think that it was going to be a tough semester. I was expecting to get a B in this class and I did. Also I thought that Ms. Scarbrough was going to be hard on use because this was a college class, but she was not. She was very nice to us, answered any questions we had, and…

microclimate would seem to support different types of vegetation in biomes like forests (Molles, 2016). The composition of the forest would allow the direct observation of the influence of microclimate on tree distribution. Comparing the distribution of large and small trees can give an indication of what the composition of the forest may look like in the future. Site Description: The forest composition lab was carried out in Newton Hills State Park. The park is one of the largest forests in…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, there will be various difficulties and struggles one will deal with and during this semester of Freshman Composition, I have achieved and overcome several different obstacles with my writing skills. Overall, I feel that I have made great strides and achievements in this class and the evidence can be located throughout my portfolio where my instructor can find proof of the following: attention grabbers otherwise known as the hook, the usage of 5-7 sentence…