Creative accounting

While both the Extended Short Course Essay and the Think Piece have their own respective advantages and disadvantages, I found that the Think Piece was more enjoyable to write. The biggest similarity between the Extended Short Course Essay and the Think Piece is the content. While the language, voice, and discourse varied between the pieces, the points that I made were relatively the same in both of the pieces. In both of the Extended Short Course Essay and the Think Piece I supported my points…

Throughout the entirety of this English 101 course, I have seen my skills as a writer grow. In the beginning of the school year, my writing fell short of my expectations, but as I continued to work and learn the principles of writing, I have written papers that I am proud to say are mine. Among the aspects of my writing I have improved, the best strives are seen within my my counter arguments and overall strength and coherency of my papers. To begin, when looking at a paper I wrote in August on…

When sadness overcomes people, they often devote themselves to literature to focus on another world. Helping them to get over their own sorrow, they read poems such as “The Raven”. Those poems are very popular and loved for such a long time. The reason for that is that people read it and the poem makes them feel something, it makes them think or it helps them in a hard time. One example for that is “The Raven”. The poem is written by Edgar Allan Poe and focuses on grief, sorrow and death. The…

There are many differences between “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “One Last Time” First, “One Last Time” is very serious and the characters are poor while “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is very upbeat and hopeful. Secondly, “One Last Time” is talking about something much more serious than learning french from a mean teacher. Lastly, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” he finds it imperative to learn french while in “One Last Time” their priorities are more important. They are also similar in many ways. First, they…

Argumentation Techniques Brian Tracy often uses anecdotes as his types of evidence and rarely uses proven statistics. He follows the same pattern for all of his chapters in the book, causing it to be very repetitive. He will first motivate the reader by reminding them of their potential and abilities. He may begin a chapter by saying that “You were born to do something wonderful with your life” (Tracy 116). A short inspirational paragraph that uses the appeal to flattery fallacy usually…

Literary works provide us with excitement and relaxation. Apart from that, literary works convey to us messages and ideas of the author. Despites enjoying the art of their works, critics are also very important in order to dig the deeper meaning and understanding of the literary works. Literary criticism, as defines by Roger Webster (1996), inlvolves reading, interpretation of and commentary on a specific text or text which have been designated as literature. By looking at the defination,…

Overall, I loved being in the caf’e. The environment was comforting and having my classmates around me helped. It was nice to come in a room where I can shut off all my other thoughts and just focus in poetry. I felt that the cafe was a safe place to share my thoughts without other people judging. And of course, I enjoyed having snacks. The food always helped me wake up and get focused. Plus, who would complain about getting to eat snacks when you come in class? Throughout my caf’e experience,…

A Defense of The Handmaid's Tale The book The Handmaid's Tale has been challenged or banned eight times since it has been published in 1985 (Sova). However, most of the bans or challenges are related to the author's portrayal of specific events and themes in the novel, sometimes without a legitimate reason to back them up. The Handmaid's Tale is a book that should be kept in course curriculums and there are important lessons to be learned from the novel. The Handmaid's Tale is an account of…

Over the course of the year, I have definitely grown as a writer. At the beginning of the year my essay grades were extremely inconsistent. I did well on some essays but horrible on others. It was like shooting a basketball in the dark and hoping to make it. I focused on writing four paragraph essays --when it should have been five-- because I feared running out of time or writing unsatisfactory body essays. However, Mr. Koetzner worked with me to help make my work more concise and thus save…

In Connie Ann Kirk’s book, “Reading and Interpreting the Works of Robert Frost,” she talks about his early life and the hardships he went through as a young adult, and a striving poet, as well as his life while being a poet. The Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference focused mostly on writing and the teaching of writing (Kirk 91). According to Kirk’s book, “The concept was that if students and faculty could interact informally outside the walls of the classroom they might be more inspired to create,…