Essays

article, “We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly The many problems of the SAT’s essay section” by Matthew J.X. Malady, argues that the SAT’s writing assessment is having a detrimental effect on students’ writing performance. Malady introduces the writing assessment of the SAT in his introductory. Malady provides the reader with the issues students are experiencing when they are writing their essay. In addition, he provides arguments to why the writing assessment is…

from this course I expect to learn how to write college level papers and be able to apply what I learn in this course to all my classes that require me to write essays, memorize how to do MLA formatting, and improve my vocabulary so that all my papers will contain college level vocab. Also, I want to be able to write good essays in a short amount of time to prepare for written exams, and know how to work my way out of writer's block which is a problem I often have when writing.…

easy on you”. Her voice was soft and tender but also serious. She sacrificed her personal time to help me on some basic stuff, she taught me how to write step by step. She even will check my essay before the peel review, because I told her I felt embarrassed that my essay had a lots of grammar error. My essays sometimes contain some Chinese elements that interested Mrs. Vondell and my classmates, its really satisfied me. I felt my writings were actually being read. Especially, after first draft,…

which will help you get good grades and ultimately a good career, which we all know is what really matters to you. Throughout the semester you will learn many skills helping you to rhetorically analyze text, create a proposal, write an argumentative essay, and a reflective letter. The first piece of high stakes work that you will…

Baptised Men The first major essay of Sophomore English class was to pen a concise memoir; a revelatory few pages that provided a brief gander into the souls of Mr. Damaso's apprehensive students. I elected to write about the relationship I have with my brother, which I assumed would be straightforward and fairly painless. Much to my amazement, my hands danced along the keyboard furiously, pounding away years of emotion onto the page. My own sincerity left me baffled, displaying how salient my…

writing essay. What I thought I knew was far from what I needed to know to write a good standard college paper. This semester I took my second college English class, and I feel more confidence in writing. As I Reflecting to what I have achieve within my English 102 class I can say that writing skills and interest in writing has grown. I started this semester annoyed, and questioning why do I have to take another English class? Our first assignment in class was to write an exploration essay on…

easily overused, but I also know that in some cases I use them way too often. Now that I look back on my past essays I rarely use the semicolon. As Lewis said that periods “tells you that is that”, but with semicolons you can add more. The word banality and banal were in the used and they respectively mean “lacking in originality.” With exclamation points I don’t find myself using them in essays, only in…

I wrote one “source-based argumentative essay” in high school: my final essay from sophomore English. The guidelines were to write a four to eight page paper on any topic of your choice, but the thesis of the paper had to come across clearly. At the time, my personal goals were to write about something no one else would, as well as get an A in the class. As a future collegiate writer, I feel as though I have the habits and potential strengths to be successful, but my biggest weakness is that I…

Initial “Role and Function of Rhetoric” Essay Rhetoric is defined as the use of effective or persuasive writing or speaking. Rhetoric can persuade and impress using many figures of speech, various models and compositional techniques, which create effective forms of communication to an audience pertaining to the topic, by being both negative or positive. Rhetoric is mainly defined by the function it is used for. The role of Rhetoric is intended to influence an audience in one way or another. It…

of two. By the end of the year, I started scoring fives and sixes. On the timed write I scored lowest on, we had a prompt in which we had to pick whether or not tv and social media had an effect on the viewer's opinions and democratic values. In my essay I constantly used weak intensifiers such as “very” and “really”. My thesis statement stated, “The opinions of others that are heard and seen on social media and other platforms have a very big impact on the opinions of the people watching.” I…