a unique degree of grit. Why were you so motivated? What did you learn from the experience? 1. Edit! Make sure to use spellcheck and have someone else read your essay before submitting it. 2. Share something with us we haven’t seen in the rest of your application. 3. Don’t be afraid to get creative. Tell us a story. 4. Your essay should be approximately 500 words. “I know I can do this. I have to get this done. This is not done right, so I am going to do it myself.” These are all the…
Typically whenever a student is given an essay assignment they go through a step by step process.This process allows the student to set a layout on how he or she does her essay. Sadly, that is somewhat not the way I do things. You see I was born with the curse of procrastination. I do go through all the steps to write an essay such as, outlining, drafting, and revisions. Unfortunately towards the end I always end up doing an assignment last minute. Usually the first action done for me is…
Enclosed in this portfolio is a collection of my work that shows my growth and progression as a writer throughout the semester. The pieces displayed in this portfolio are the four major assignments we completed over the semester: the investigative field essay, annotated bibliography and literature review, rhetorical analysis, and the multimodal proposal and project. Each assignment encompasses a topic that relates back to my major as chemistry, or my projected occupation as a pharmacist. I hope…
Paid, Obesity, and Safe Sex. Why these papers stuck out to me so much was because of the information that was provided throughout the essay. When reading, them I wanted to read more. I wanted to learn more information about all these topics I was kind of ignorant on. While on the topic of these essays, they also need to be worked on to fix mistakes throughout their essay. Why College Athletes Should Be…
After reading your Writing Plan, I believe the argument of your persuasive essay is that those suffering from anxiety and/or depression would benefit from reading fictional stories during their leisure time rather than skimming through social media sites. This would give the reader an opportunity to escape into the land of their own imagination, and to see the world through another lens. Additionally, you have a strong argument that the use of technology may be connected to anxiety and…
Learning to write When I attended elementary school, part of the curriculum was penmanship. There was a certain segment of instruction dedicated to penmanship rather than writing. We were given large sheets of oat colored paper with three parallel lines widely spaced. The alphabets were used to print and write in cursive using the midpoint, and upper lines for capital letters. The handwriting grades were based on neatness and readability. I do not recall specifically how I learned to write,…
Throughout out my high school career I have blossomed into the writer I am today. I not the best writer, but I have gotten much better. I still remember the first couple essays I wrote in my freshman english class, they were awful and full of grammatical errors. Comparing the first essay i ever wrote in the class and my college essay that i wrote in my senior english class, you can see growth and improvement. Writing does not come easily to me, it’s like trial and error. When starting an…
Writing an essay can be troublesome at times, along with other schoolwork assignments to be turned in, there 's a life outside of school as well to be had. This being my official first semester of college I knew a majority of the assignments would be writing essays’. Trust me I know, for some it comes easy; some students can receive the writing assignment and have a paper done the same day. Some of us are not as fortunate, others struggle to compose a sentence, a paragraph, much less a two or…
and guidelines for academic integrity, and what specific strategies you will use to accomplish this. Consider how you will conduct your research and writing, etc. Once specific example of plagiarism that is deliberate and blatant is purchasing an essay or paper from an online website and using it as your own. This is also referred to as Unauthorized Assistance (UoPeople Catalog, 84). There have been a few sites that have emerged over the years that students initially flocked to, and which also…
“Be who your are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind “Dr.Seuss said.I'm a college student at Baton Rouge Community College in English class we were ask to write an argumentative essay on three changes we want to make at BRCC and why? At first when given this assignment my first reaction was UGG!couldn ’t he come up with something better then that topic.I sat dazed into space for a minute then a light went off oh that’s easy since he asked…