Essay

Testing Fish “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Your job in this, dear fish, is to identify the trees most common around; the multiple choice, essay, short answer, extra credit, and graph problems, in descending popularity. These all have their place in the forest that is a test, and as varied as any forest, there are infinite ways to mix them. The hierarchy of test questions is up for debate,…

Throughout my exploratory essay there was an objective tone instead of a subjective tone. This tone helped me write an efficient exploratory essay in which I include factual evidence and textual analysis towards the topic of segmented assimilation in which specific generations go through, as they adjust to a new culture and society. Instead of including emotions and my opinion on the situation, I had to use historical resources, via web or journals, such as social studies. The medium of this…

that I used outlining and pre-writing to write three large essays for English, I understand the importance of outlining and pre-writing. My essays have a much better flow to them and are generally organized fairly well. Although my essays are far from perfect, they are much better than my previous essays that I have written. I have learned that outlining and pre-writing are critical steps that must be completed in order to write and strong essay. Since discovering this newfound knowledge, I have…

high school, I received all A’s on my English essays. In the beginning of core, my essays were not up to the standards my professor was expecting. My professor pointed out to me that I was making the same mistake, “your essay is lacking development,” she would say. I did not understand what I was doing wrong; certainly, this was the way I’ve been writing all of my essays since high school and it seemed to be just fine. I continued revising my essays over and over, but my professors still seemed…

My Reflective Essay For my research essay, I chose to use the inquiry method. After selecting my topic, I wrote a list of questions that I wanted answers to, so I would be more knowledgeable about my topic and hopefully discover something I didn’t already know. Suspending judgment on my findings was difficult, because I had some previous knowledge and experience with my topic. I just divorced any prior knowledge and preconceived ideas that I had and researched this topic, as if I didn’t know…

When I first made my decision to go to Hudson Valley to study Computer Information Systems I was shown the classes which I need to complete to earn my degree. One of the classes I would have to take as a requirement was English Composition I. And so my decision to begin taking the class this semester has already begun to have effects on my writing ability and in particular my grammar. However grammar and general writing improvements are not the only things that this class will effect. For it has…

The steps that I take to write my essays are usually first brainstorm second I write what I will be talking about and how I will structure it. For me to write an sesay it usually takes a few trial and errors for me to successfully write a good essay. What my ideas are in writing an essay is to take your time and to brainstorm what you want to talk about. What I like about “Nancy Sommers” is she had said that writing is like incubating eggs because you have to go through many steps just like…

student who did not re-read what he had previously written, I felt that the student must have been more focused on completing the essay than on the clarity of his paper. I always proofread my paper for sentences or ideas that do not make sense and will often delete or re-write sections to improve the flow or clarity of my essay. I don’t think that I have ever had an essay where I didn’t re-write portions of it. I found the strategies for connecting ideas incredibly helpful, in chapter 8. I…

Narrative Essay Response In my narrative essay, I made a couple of mistakes concerning grammar and use of vague pronouns. First, I placed a comma in front of “because;” “because” is a subordinating conjunction, meaning it joins two independent clauses in order to form a complex sentence. The sentence that I wrote contains an independent clause and a subordinating clause. Since the subordinating clause is at the end, a comma is not needed in front of because. Additionally, I overused vague…

strengths and weaknesses are. Essay reflection is a key part of human existence serves as a way people reconsider and contemplate in order to grow in life and move forward. As humans we tend to contemplate about what we want to write about or how we are going to set things up. Writing is one of the things…