Creative destruction

In Michaela Cullington’s “Does Texting Affect Writing?” Cullington discusses the views individuals have on texting and how it impacts student’s writing. The growing popularity of texting has caused external and internal dissonance amongst several groups with different perspectives on how it affects writing. Some defend that it has some positive effects on writing in general. Others argue that it has a negative impact, specifically on formal writing. However, it appears that if texting does have…

Katy Van Zandt Mrs. Mary Smith AP Literature 20 September 2017 How to Read Literature Like a Professor: Analysis! In the book ‘How to Read Literature Like a Professor’, Thomas C. Foster uses examples of literary devices such as theme, symbols, and irony to give us the tools we need to succeed in analyzing literature on a deeper level. He also incorporates the importance of theme throughout the entire book, by addressing it in almost every chapter. He includes the importance of symbols…

As a writer I believe I still have a lot more to learn. In writing I think writing fiction is one of my strengths, for example I do enjoy writing short stories on my free time just for fun. I often share them with one of my friends and my cousin. I am still pretty shy about them, but they seem to really like them. Although, they are not the best stories I can spend a lot of time writing them without getting bored. I also enjoy writing argumentative essays, finding evidence that supports my…

Writing a novel can be quite difficult if you don’t know how you as an author can make a story understandable for everyone, even if you as a reader don’t know anything about the topic. Authors have been struggling with this issue for many years, because there isn’t any guideline that tells them how they can make their story understandable, interesting and looking nice. And those are pretty important to create a good novel. Safran Foer for example, has chosen to use the visual writing theory in…

Here I am typing an essay about my life, the only problem is I don't have much to tell that I'd want to write about. I'm 15 and I am just like everybody else on this Earth, no less, no more. The only thing that really comes to mind when you ask to write about my life is my bestfriend at the moment. I love my family and they can never be replaced, but at this very moment I would like to talk about my bestfriend, Casey Lee. I meet Casey in 6th grade when I had class with her, we didn't even talk…

Reflection Paper At first, the thought of being in a college level english class made me extremely nervous. Although I really enjoy writing and being creative, I have never felt like I was a good writer. I definitely had room for improvement. Before taking this class, I have never had a teacher tell me how to properly write an essay. I felt like they expected us to know how to write an A+ paper straight out of the womb. From freshman to junior year in english class, I was thrown into writing. I…

A Journey into the Mind of a Writer As I walked into her room filled with noisy students, I reminisced about the memories I had in her class. I made my way to my old desk, sat in it, and remembered the time when I fell on my butt because my friend pulled my chair out from under me. I also remembered the time when I tripped on a backpack and hit my back against the closet, causing all the trophies that were showcased on top of it to wobble, which almost fell on my head. I started to chuckle, but…

Jack Solomon is a professor of English at California State University, Northridge where he teaches literature and critical theory. Along with his graduate and undergraduate classes on popular cultural semiotics, he is often interviewed by the media for analysis of current events and trends. “The Signs of Our Time” is a book written by Jack Solomon in the year 1988 which is where the essay “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising” was taken from. It was published by Penguin Group,…

I feel my biggest success was adjusting to the idea of technical writing and implementing what I have learned. Taking this class was a bit intimidating at first. I had never been involved in a class like this and with a name like Technical Writing, it sounded very strict, difficult, and the opposite of fun. Once I started doing assignments, my whole perspective on technical writing changed and I was more successful that I thought I would be. The biggest challenge of this course would…

First semester was was filled with the essentials of writing. The things you need to know how to do like using transition words or how to mimic your introduction in your conclusion. Using transition words is a skill we all learn in elementary school, but during first semester we revisited the idea. We improved our vocabulary of transitions and learn the importance of them. So in second semester I knew this was a important thing to use in my writing. One of the pieces that I used them in was my…