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form and write letters. Stage two is like a developmental stage. It was the most important part of my literacy development. It encompasses from post kindergarten all the way up to high school. During this stage I learned words, basic sentences, and essays as well as reading. I have had the program similar to “Hooked on Phonics”, started a reading encyclopedias and books, etc. Finally, stage three, which is like a fine tuning and expansion stage. This stage is still in progress. It deals with me…

my hands rush to scribble down letters to form the first essay of the first semester, then the second, and finally the last. Throughout the first semester, students in Honors English experienced writing essays in a short amount of time while trying to maintain the essay’s quality. I believe that although I did well in some parts of my Summer Reading Essay, The Odyssey Essay, and Character showing Empathy Essay, there were pieces of the essays that could be improved and in the future, I aim to…

Writing an essay can be more difficult then people might think. However, you can improve your essay by practicing a lot because you can’t make a good essay from the beginning. You must make a lot of mistakes to learn from them and at the end, you will improve and become a good essay writer. There are few things in which you must do to make a good essay. Writing a bad essay would be unenjoyable for you and the audience. The three steps of writing a bad essay is lack of personality, failure to…

a teenager I wrote a horrible academic essay in an easy English class in the 10th grade, and received a D. By way of contrast, as an adult I wrote an excellent research essay in an English class as a freshman in college, and received an A. Though, I made horrible mistakes on my personal essay as a teenager, I believe my writing has improved tremendously due to a research essay I wrote. For one thing, as a teenager in the 10th grade I wrote a horrible essay that received a non-passing grade, but…

argumentative English essay, a book report written for an AP science class, and a lab report. These pieces illustrate my proficiency in multiple subject areas including research and argumentation. The first piece presented in my portfolio is an argumentative essay written for my AP Language and Composition course. The given essay, written by Edward O. Wilson, and AP prompt were taken from the 2009 AP Language exam, found on the College Board website. The prompt instructed students to “write an…

The Ghettos of the Holocaust This essay is about the research I did over the Jewish ghettos of the Holocaust. In this essay I will explain to you about the ghettos that were built or involved in the Holocaust. You will gain facts about life in these ghettos. You learn the different types of ghettos. You will gain knowledge of the history and origin of these ghettos. I will tell who was involved with the ghettos, where the ghettos were, what happened inside and out of the ghettos, why did this…

answer the question, we were assigned to write an analytical essay. To analyze means to look at a quote and find a deeper meaning. The main idea of the essay is that the characters in the book are not happy and their society is distracting them. The main idea is meaningful because it can actually reflect how people deal with happiness. I chose to answer the…

Five-Paragraph Essay” Foley Marie argues that the five-paragraph essay “deters thinking” (pg.233). According to “Instead of generating thinking, the formula deters it” (pg. 231) the passage analyze that the five-paragraph essay makes students lacks of creativity, and stops to let students explore themselves. The reason for five-paragraph essay still taught in school is because of High School English classes are overcrowded so it would be easier to teach a class the five-paragraph essay.…

journey began as a developing writer. The developmental course is just a trial to move on to English 1101 that hopefully has been deemed successful. There has been so much taught to me in this class, and so much room for improvement within all of my essay written for the course. With all of my improvements as a writer, and within my writing process, let me take the leap to English 1101. The start of the semester, the professor gave us a two articles to read. “Lamott’s, Shitty First Drafts” was…

Reflection of Writing Having to revise an essay is never easy, especially if one thinks their essay is “perfect” already, but that is exactly what Professor Michael Martin made his English 366 class do for their final portfolio. The task of picking the essays was one of the most challenging parts of creating the final portfolio, because I was unsure how to tackle an essay rewrite, and I was afraid that the improvements I would make would bring down my essays instead of enhancing them. After…