Creative industries

Dear Colleagues: For writing project 1, we did not argue about whether McCarthy’s strategy was effective, we assumed it was effective and instead argued about which rhetorical elements, we believed were crucial to the understanding of his strategy. I argued that his introduction, his use of the three appeals (specifically ethos), and his diction were most crucial in the success of his strategy. I believe my essay has many strengths, and these include my organization and the structure of my…

This portfolio contain the two essay that I have been working on throughout the term. My portfolio shows the new technique and style I have throughout in the course. As I reflect at the end of writing 090 class, I am able to see how much I have improve as a writer. I have learned my greatest strengthen and weaknesses. Engaging in peer editing and getting feedbacks from my profession and staff in the learning center help me to improve my mistakes. My portfolio includes my spirit club essay and…

Why Everyone In An American Classroom Should Read the Great Gatsby A extremely common question from high school students is “why should we spend our time reading old books and plays from a stupid list; especially, when there are more important things are going on in life and school? The reason why specific books are included on reading list is simple. Generally literature includes aspects that helps individuals increase their understanding of written works and why they’re important; but to be…

Hernan Cortes was born on December 2, 1485 in Medellin, Castile, Spain. His family was an upper class family, although his parents weren't wealthy. He was born of Spanish nobility. His parents' names were Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro Altamira no. At the age of fourteen Cortes`s parents sent to study law at the University of Salamanca. He wasn't happy at school, too restless to follow the rules. He did learn a little Latin, and became good at writing. After two years (failing his course),…

Overall, English 201 has been a great experience and I have taken away a significant amount of knowledge from this class. What helped me experience success was working ahead in this class. I am glad that I know for my own self that I work better with online English classes. Since it was an online course, I could work at my own pace and research material more easily as I wrote my paper. To help me meet my goals, I would make note of future due dates for the following week. After analyzing all the…

Chapter Eight: In this Chapter, Graff and Birkenstein discuss creating connections in writing. Connections keep writing from becoming confusing for readers. To keep this confusion from occurring, the authors suggest four ways to create connections in writing. The first of these is using transitional words or phrases to show the reader how the sentences connect. The second is using “pointing words”, such as this, that, or it, so the reader must refer to the previous sentence in order to…

I. Introduction Writing and reading are important skills in college for creating essays, as well as in careers like medical and legal fields. When writing reports or essays, the information has to be organized, or it will become unfocused. Reading is just as important as writing since that is the main way the information will be conveyed. While I would not consider myself great at reading and writing, I do have experience with both of these skills. For some people, just getting started is the…

For writing project one I used the essay “Look at Your Fish: In the Laboratory with Agassiz” by Samuel Scudder. I choose this essay because it was the most relatable. I also liked how it was short and simple and straight to the point, which helped me pick up the main idea of the essay quicker. I related to the learning style of Scudder and his struggle of picking out the details. Not only was this easy relatable, but it also contained great quotes that flowed into my essay stupendous lousy. My…

Throughout the time that I have spent in the educational system I have used various writing styles in my literature. These different styles have helped me to find out the type of person I am. When I first started writing, I would write in a style of just writing down words to form a story that had no true meaning. I maintained this form of writing until one of my middle school teachers had a talk with me about my form of writing. They spoke to me on how my style of writing wouldn’t help me…

In my high school writing was a little different than others. While most were in normal 9th and 10th grade English, I was in Read 180 and Century 21, which both of these classes aim more towards making us better readers not writers. Before my junior year my school changed things up a bit and made juniors and seniors picked what kind of English class they were interested in. In read180 once a week we had to read an article from the newspaper or a quote the teacher posted on the board; for the…