Expository writing

year, I have many pieces I can take to college with me, and use as references for future writings. Before this year I did not know how to write in American Psychological Association (APA) format. Now I am proficient in writing papers in this format and am prepared to write this way for college. This portfolio contains a sample of my best writings over the course of the year. I chose to include my Expository paper, my…

sparked question presented in the text, “Will profanity lose its pain-relieving magic along the way?” Scientific evidence was introduced to prove that profanity provides people with an increased pain tolerance. The writing style of Burdick in this article is an amalgamation of an expository writing style, illustrated in the…

something that should be so simple, I make it complex and find it hard to be as specific as possible. So far I enjoyed Writing with Purpose, Expository Writing, Making a Plan, Writing Elements, but I 'm still trying to make sense of Week 4 Comparing and Contrasting. I had…

that from her initial poem “The still Landscape” to this one that she has many underlying issues with her parents on different levels. A lot of readers may be able to relate to her expressions and issues with her parents and again being she is an expository writer her way of bringing the reader into her world is very descriptive. “I hated the fact that they had planned me, she had taken a cardboard out of his shirt from the laundry as if sliding the backbone up out of his body (Olds, Sharon).”…

research. We kept the same topic, so I was able to simply utilize the same sources from the expository essay. This is why I initially believed it was going to be an easy process. While going into the essay, my first priority was learning how to use the Toulmin method. The Toulmin method was difficult since I had never used it before, therefore I was prepared to do some research on it before I began writing. Upon learning some aspects of the Toulmin method I began the outline which was given to…

Throughout my journey of English 111 and English 112, I have learned so much and mastered several concepts. Throughout this course, I have definitely grown as a writer. In English 111 we worked on the following essays: Narrative, Expository, and Persuasive. In English 112 we worked on the following papers: Summary and Response, Argumentative, Literary Analysis, and the Multigenre paper. In English 112 we also received a book called They Say, I Say, in which there were several passages using…

In writing, there are various ways for one to organize and state their paper through numerous systems or framework. One system, initially used by ancient Greek and Roman, is the classical system. The classical system consists of the introduction, background…

website to locate the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) writing standards for the 5th grade level, I found that only 4th and 7th grade had writing standards. I am not sure what this means, but I am going to assume that it means that only students at these grade levels take the writing portion of the examine. With a testing pattern such as this, I plan to ensure that my students know and can implement all of the 4th grade writing standards, if I am teaching 5th grade. If I am…

November 2016 Being an Author Have you ever thought about writing a story for fun? Authors do this all the time! They get to create anything in a book, or they can create a non fictional story or some form of writing. (which you can research, and have real world problems in). It is very important that we have authors, if we didn't have authors. We wouldn't be as smart as we are today. Authors help children learn reading, writing, and school lessons. Being an author has a…

Dual Enrollment English has been a very beneficial and productive class for me. I have been helpful. Throughout the second semester we’ve written paper about three big papers and I’ll be talking about my experience in writing those papers. Starting with my narrative from the first semester all the way to the last paper the multigenre, Dual Enrollment has prepared me for college and it’s safe to say that I am ready. I’m thankful that this class has showed me an insight of how a college class…