Composition

This semester in my composition course, I believe I have become a more advanced writer. Throughout the semester my paper has had fewer errors and my organization as greatly improve. At the beginning of this course, my finals papers were just slightly revised versions of the first thought that popped up in my head. I did not spend nearly enough time reviewing or considering what my peer editors suggested. The papers I wrote earlier in the semester are full of grammar mistakes. I have learned the…

Over the semester in Freshman Composition, I learned many useful writing skills to help me throughout college and into my career. In my portfolio there’s collections of essays such as, Impact of Reading and Writing, Argumentative Paper, and Narrative Paper. Also assignments like Social Issues, Argumentative, and the first homework revision. My personal accomplishment is minimizing the use of dead words and improving my word choice to make my writing sound like a college student wrote it. I…

English Composition Honors 1010 set out to instruct and improve on the writing skills on its students focusing of five learning outcomes. Here is my story. This semester my writing has evolved due to my understanding of context in relation to writing format and styles. Through my own self-evaluation of my own papers, this passed semester I’ve overcome stagnation as a writer. I’ve moved on from my algorithmic method of churning out essays, which often leads to writer’s block. Since then, I have…

Throughout the semester of English Composition I, I learned any new things. Over the past few months I have learned many new tips on how to create a good paper. Although I gained much knowledge over the past few months I did struggle with a few things such as formulating a written thesis statement expressing my main point in the composition, producing rough drafts preliminary to the final draft, applying transition strategies to organize the entire composition cohesively and coherently, and…

AP Language and Composition would be tremendously beneficial in my high school career, but it would also be valuable in my future career in college. Having AP English on my transcript would help prestigious colleges such as Stanford consider me as a viable student to attend their college. This AP class will benefit me beyond high school for college applications and college class work, which all demand the ability to properly execute a sophisticated written piece. This preparation for extended…

The two short stories “The Composition” by Antonia Skarmeta and “Panache” by W.P Kansella portrays the basic human rights violations and the impact of those violations on the character. Both stories shared the impacts on their education, safety and guarantee of legal protection. `To start with, both stories dealt with the impact on the characters education. In the Composition, while Pedro is attending school a captain comes on behalf of Pinochet and disturbs the children's education. He…

I have tried to articulate about musical compositions and how the thought that goes into the actual creating of music unfolds from a primordial abyss to becoming-music. How do we articulate that? It is difficulty, indeed. In my assessment of the authors I have researched, I find that many of them struggle with discussing music in terms of a narrative. For example, Hasty (2010) and Bogue (2003) both start with speaking about musical compositions that are analyzed in Deleuzian terms, but they…

to encourage more realistic conceptions of writing. Douglas Downs and Wardle focus on the concept of Writing about Writing (WAW). Writing about Writing (WAW), is a method of teaching composition which puts focus on reading and writing about writing in the writing course, and reimagines first-year composition as an "introduction to writing studies."…

taught to read and write literature and music. Unfortunately the knowledge was screened by the Church hierarchy, and many were only taught to read works provided to them. Only a fortunate few were granted the privilege to study music and music composition; Hildegard of Bingen was one of these women. Hailing from Bermershein, Germany, Hildegard was born into a family of nine children. Because of her domestic life, she grew up dedicated to the…

Being in a band has let me see some great compositions by Tyler Grant, and Robert Smith. The amount of joy I, and my friends have gotten from playing this music has inspired me to want to compose music. This experience highlights that composing music brings many people joy, helps, and inspires them. As a music composer, one could compose for animation, video games, or movies, to have fun composing while affecting humanity. One profession that involves composing music is an animation score…