Essay

teachers and coming up with an essay at the top of my head that properly fit the space requirement and prompt that I would then turn in the day it was due. However, since I began taking Freshmen Composition I, I have found that it is not only immensely wearisome to improvise five to seven pages on the spot, but also nearly impossible when the essay requires exact textbook and outside sources that must be cited on a work cited page. To be quite honest, I did not…

I wrote an essay, What Methods Would Effectively Prevent the Spread of Ebola?, that identified ways to stop the spread of the Ebola Virus. Every month there is a new, highly talked about topic of interest. These past few months, this topic was Ebola. It became one of the most talked about topics in Fall 2014 because it was brought to United States from Africa, where it has been an ongoing epidemic. Many citizens feared for their lives about what was to come. When talking about Ebola it is easy…

My Dracula essay in Mr. Jensen’s British Literature class was the first time I truly understood how to write an academic essay. Throughout my highschool career, starting with Mr. Pilla’s Advanced English class in the 9th grade, I could never quite grasp the concept of writing an essay, or more specifically the thesis of an essay. Working on my theses throughout AP American Literature and Composition, I figured out the…

100, we have written 3 essays each one having different main ideas. The first article we wrote was a profile essay, we interviewed a person or place of our chose and wrote about what it was like to be that person for a day or be at that certain place for a day. The second essay was about a review on something we enjoyed so I decided to write about Grey’s Anatomy of course. Our last essay was about a proposal on a certain idea or headline in the world. I decided to write my essay about why…

into a crime. When asked to decide on a topic for this essay, my mind immediately came to the idea of homelessness in Idaho due to my previous knowledge and encounter with the concept. In order to find materials/supporting evidence for my topic, I looked mostly towards news articles and governmental reports for my statistics and data, while leaning more towards journals and magazines in order to connect with the idea on a personal level. My essay faced many stages of editing, cutting,…

There are many types of essays that at some point almost everyone has written. Some of the essays include a narrative, a descriptive, a persuasive, and expository. “Those are the four major types of essays” (Time for Writing), and they are also the ones I will be talking about in this essay. There are more like a cause and effect, a comparison, or also a research essay. It is a good thing to know the differences between essays, so one doesn’t write a persuasive when told to write a narrative…

characteristics which allows them to contain their own place in writing. I have decided to pursue my essay topic on the genre of persuasive essays or in many cases have been known as argument essays. A persuasive essay is a form of writing that attempts to persuade the reader to adopt a certain point of view or to take a particular action on its topic of display. This requires the writer to begin his essay taking a position for or against an issue in which he plans to write about. This will…

my goal was to work on my thesis statements. For my second essay this semester my thesis statement was “if he…

After reading Percy and Morris it is observed that the two essays have alot of similarities and a few differences. Morris specifies one main point or points. While Percy finds himself never completely clarifying his thesis. One similarity Morris and Percy shares is the lost of something important. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, Morris and Percy both has discussed the lost of something important. However, Morris discusses the lost a sense of reality while Percy discribes the lost of…

One example of my collaboration work was on my Exploratory Essay. My partner Malika and I discussed different ways to help strengthen my thesis. She helped me grammatically and helped me specify the idea I was in fact, trying to portray through my thesis and body paragraphs. She stated possibilite confusion in one of my paragraphs that lacked proper connection back to the thesis and topic sentence. In my outline, I was able identify who were created The Primer, why they created The Primer and…