Essays

In my experience of essay writing, I was always given topics and a focus for the essay. But within this class, I was given the flexibility to write about a topic of my choosing; this made and endless list of possibilities. The parameters were set by the rubrics and overall career based topic, but it allotted me the chance to creatively and effectively write. Throughout the process of writing the three assigned essays (compare/contrast, cause/effect, and research), I have gained a new prospective…

students. I was determined to make the most out of my opportunity and deliver the best essay to the University. Out of the topics listed, I chose the two that were easiest for me to elaborate on, and…

I Hate Writing Essays There are SOOOOOO many reasons why essays are horrible monsters created by English teachers. For instance: • You have no purpose to write 5 page papers in many jobs • Once you learn about informal essays, all known structure is gone • They take up WAY too much of the student’s and teacher’s time • They create stress and hurt more than they help • They are boring and no fun to write • They are a waste of class time • There is no point in writing so many (seriously, we’ve…

Throughout the semester I’ve noticed that the authors Baron, Swales, Bazerman, Alexie, Sommers and Newkirk had brilliant ideas in their text about ideas of writing. All these texts we read this semester had their own importance, but the most significant texts to me were Swales, “The Concept Of a Discourse Community” and Alexie’s text, “Joy of Reading and Writing: The Superman and Me”. Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people who come together and share a common set of…

Retrospective Essay The goal of this course was to teach us the proper way to write, to help us communicate more efficiently in the business world, and to teach how to join the “never-ending conversation”. This class has already accomplished that and much more. Not only have we covered almost all of the course goals, excluding synthesis which will be covered soon; we have been challenged to think about more advanced topics, to stay current in the world, and to discern information for ourselves…

In English 100, peer reviewing rough draft essays has been a helpful process that has helped me improve in my writing. I used peer reviewing as a tool to make the necessary corrections that were needed in one of my essays. The comments and grammar suggestions from my peers have been useful to make modifications in my writing. For example, when I received a graded paper back, I read over the peer review comments and used what was needed to make the Essay stronger. If a comment stated to include…

In the Project #1 Reflection I talked about how this project highlighted my weakness on procrastination, and time management. Although I was able to finish this essay with time to spare, I was very frustrated with myself the week before because I didn’t work on this project as much as I should have. I tend to wait until around 3 days before the assignment is due to really get working on it. When it comes to submitting…

successful in this class. I was surprised by how much I actually learned and also how much I developed the writing skills in the different papers I have written during this semester. Those papers includes four pieces of writing and this reflective essay. The first assignment of the semester was a literacy narrative. The literacy narrative was a particularly…

in the future. I have learned how to use commas, passive voice, semicolons, and format a paper in MLA. From my first essay to my last one, it is noticeable that a major improvement has been made. I did not know that even after teacher feedback that you needed to revise your own work. Although I have learned many skills, I believe that the most valuable one is how to revise my essays. When I got my first feedback from Mrs. Menetre, my paper was covered in yellow boxes with many critiques I have…

Throughout this semester, I started my essays by writing down ideas then putting them together to make one statement/argument. Writing these essays have showed me that practice makes perfect. Even though my writing skill are not perfect, writing everyday has improved my vocabulary. Most of the writing this semester was very personal in my opinion. One of the assignment was to write about I time in life that made you change is some way. It could not be sad or to personal like rape or other…