I am writing to you from 2016. I have been studying at Western New England University for a year. Since I began at this school, I changed a lot. I have been writing a good papers due to my English class 132. I have greatly enjoyed how this course has made me improve my writing skills. This class has greatly helped me improve my writing skills. I am convinced that I will be able to use them not only in my college assignments but also throughout my entire life. I can now fearlessly say that I am a…
matter how bad it starts off. When I was in high school I had the worst and best writing experience together. I learned to find writing as a release for what I did not feel comfortable saying aloud. In the ninth grade I found out I can be amazing at creative writing that is also non-fiction. I wrote about a young girl of age ten and her stresses in life with all the difficulties that she goes through. That young girl was, me. When I wrote the words I could feel the heartache, the…
student). I have gain many valuable skills such as learning the importance of mapping my thoughts, creating a structured outline, appreciating the revision techniques, and acquiring new perspectives on writing that I aim to utilize in both academic and creative writings in the future. Prior to the course, I simply define “good writing” as one that has a distinct objective.…
1. My hypothetical class is a creative writing class for high school seniors (17-18 years old) and there are fourteen students in the class. The class has a good grasp on writing poetry, minimal experience writing non-fiction and fiction stories with and without dialogue, and are extremely comfortable sharing their pieces with me (the teacher) and their classmates. They do not however, have experience with merging fiction and non-fiction, so that is a major accomplishment goal with this piece.…
It all started from my high school, which was international school in China. I had to write many essays. My drive to have a better and creative writing skill was fully because of my first teacher in the high school. “What should I improve?” I had to ask this for many times after I get my essay back. She had a certain criteria that she expected to find in student’s essays. “Well Kyu…” She…
Experiences as an SVSU English major My freshman year at SVSU began in a way that I could only explain as equal parts terrifying and exhilarating. There I was, three hours away from home, surrounded by (and living with) seven complete strangers who I somehow felt like I had nothing in common with. I came in with pretty much no idea what I was doing, who I wanted to be, or what the next four years would be like, and a tentatively declared English major. I didn’t know where I was headed, I…
My Literacy Adventure When I came into this class I had no idea what to expect. Was it going to be an easy class I would not have to worry about? Or would it test my writing abilities to a whole other level? I soon found out that I not prepared for what was to come. For the first time I felt as though I was on my own when it came to writing. In high school I did not take any advanced English or writing classes and I had the same English teacher for three years. My teacher was very straight…
Writing is not only a profession but it’s a vocation. You need passion to become an effective writer. You need to love what you do and do what you love. Because when you 're passionate, amazing things can happen. Just like the ones detailed below. There’s enough time. Have a long list of things to do every day? No problem at all. Does the clock seem to run so fast but you feel so unproductive yet? Nope, doesn’t happen when you 're in the writer’s zone. When you love to write, you can accomplish…
Bird by Bird, well that sounds like word by word, and that’s exactly what this book is about. Anne Lamott is trying to teach future writers, including those just taking an English course, that writing is a process that we can only take word by word. Bird by Bird – Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott was published on September 28, 1994 and was intended for those taking a writing course or those trying to become future writers. Anne Lamott tries to connect to the reader, on a…
Purpose Economy vs. Creative Economy Aaron Hurst describes the fourth economic stage as the purpose economy (following the knowledge economy). As humans, we have a fear of not mattering. Because of this, Hurst predicts our next economic era will be centered around our individual quest for purpose. Each of the previous economies have made mankind ‘faster, stronger, smarter,’ but now mankind is turning back to a more ‘human’ way of doing things. Purpose is a choice, according to Hurst, which…