Essays

excellent writer but still thought I wrote well enough to get my point across without confusing the reader too much. However, any confidence that I had in my writing skills was lost for a short time when I had to write my first timed essay in school. Luckily, the timed essay assignment also helped me see that I needed to work on my writing and, as a result, actually turned out to be a more positive experience rather than a negative one. It was just another regular school day that was near its…

problems and understand the structure of an atom but most of the time when it comes to writing I freeze up and don’t have any clue where to start. The things I have written are research papers or biographies and the occasional facts about yourself essay; just the things that you are assigned to do by a teacher. My writing has been pretty limited, so you can imagine my thoughts when I figured out what I had gotten myself into by signing up for English Comp 101. At first I was really scared and…

be a very great tool. I enjoyed reviewing other people’s essays because peer reviews opened my eyes to several mistakes of my own that I previously overlooked such as double periods and quotation errors. I learned from the mistakes that my fellow classmates pointed out in my essays and tried to be more aware when writing. Although PeerMark was a great tool, I mostly enjoyed being able to collaborate with my instructor. After having my essays checked by my instructor I always felt more…

Writing Assignment 2: Close Reading Essay I will be looking at the article, “YouTube pranking across cultures”, by Renee Hobbs and Silke Grafe. After reading this article on online pranks, readers are able to understand the structure of articles. Thus helping the readers get an understanding of how prank videos have evolved over the years in our culture, in a good way and bad way. This is done by providing readers with good arguments, evidence, methodology and conclusions. With a good…

to write a evaluating, arguing, and an explaining essay. This information is going to help me very much in the future if I ever need to write an essay like the ones we wrote in class. Some examples included that I now know that to write an argumentative essay I need to have rhetorical logic such as logos (logical appeal of argument), ethos (ethical appeal of author), and pathos (emotional appeal of argument). Also, when writing an argumentative essay I should or using the Classical,…

it I could. In my psychoanalytic essay Trusting the Guy: Selective Perception, The Double, and Repetition Compulsion in Jane Kenyon’s Surprise I stated that these three terms showed “how the speaker has a difficult time trusting her significant other due to a past relationship where trust was broken”. I wanted to include my thesis here because on this essay my thesis was commented on saying it was good thesis. I had not received this in any of my previous essays, so it made me feel…

However, I have never been a fan of podcasts, my attention span has simply never been long enough to listen to one, so I was afraid that I would have trouble finding a topic using a podcast. The day after we were given the assignment to draft the essay, I decided to listen to an episode while on a train home, purely to get it over with, but surprisingly I enjoyed the podcast and had very little trouble finding a subject for my paper. The process of writing the paper was not incredibly difficult…

The argumentative essay was widely regarded as the hardest essay we are going to have to type this year. The hardest part, in my opinion, was to heavily implement our voice so that we did not turn this into a research paper. The essay was more I had always thought of myself as a good writer, so I thought college writing would not be too hard. This was not the thought when I got my first rough draft back. I then knew college writing was going to be harder than I expected. This was my first time…

The self-swindling swindle “Hmm… I have absolutely no Idea what to write about.” I twirled my pencil in my hand as I wracked my brain for something that I could base my essay on. Although I had been thinking for close to half an hour by now, the only thing that I could think of was writing about how I was in denial about being overweight, while I was in middle school, accepting the fact, and trying to do something about it later. However, I felt that writing about something like that would…

Proofread Writing can be very daunting and frustrating, therefore, you need to proofread after writing any piece of document. Proofreading is re-reading what you wrote to make sure you have written the information you intended to convey. Sometimes, the brain works faster than the pen and you may interchange some familiar words. Proofread your document to make sure it is free of wrong spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors. Any mistakes in your writing can make you appear unprofessional or…