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Three Things I Learned In a world full of sensationalized news stories, propaganda, and a need and greed for ratings, isn’t better to skip watching the news? In the document, “What is a Journalist”, it seems that a journalist should have a heart and integrity. Then upon reading, “How Journalists Write”, it is very obvious, that journalists are forced to sensationalize. Look at Fox news and the Ebola scare. I was ready to run to the woods and pull all my money out of the stock market. If…

I just love to read, I read every chance I get. My boss, and wife try to keep me from reading, but I always find a way. One day my wife and I were going to play cards at a friends house, I went to change my shirt like she told me too, and I snuck a book into my pocket to read later in the night. But my wife found it, and as I tried to play it off as how did that get in there? My wife got angry, which caused her to rip the pages out. Oh my poor book! why does my wife hurt me this way? Out one…

focus on my tone. How you can work your tone to give the paper its true meaning. I wrote multiple drafts on this paper. I took many different approaches until a found a way to tell a story in a way that was meaningful without being boring. I usually just write one draft and then revise it and turn it in, I never have had to do multiple drafts so that was something different for me. I usually don’t go and get help on my papers, but for this paper I seeked help from my cousin, my friend (a former…

of the writing assignment. When I think of creating a research paper I worry that I will not use enough words to get my point across. Before starting at Belhaven my emails were anything but detailed and at least once a week I was reminded to use more words. With each class, I learn more tools that will help me with my writing. I have learned to create a formal outline. It has helped me to better understand the content of a research paper. I have 13 hours invested in the creation my outline. My…

Bill Ezzard has always loved reading and writing even to this day. From keeping journals while traveling, telling ghost stories around a campfire with his friends cheering him on, to an advanced fantasy novel manuscript similar to "The Hobbit." He always had a passion to write. Imitation is the best form of praise, a quote from Mr. Ezzard is one of the reasons why he wrote "The Magerian Power." The Magerian Power" was started when he was twelve and was a story much like The Hobbit by J.R.R…

My major, communication with a minor in PR, is something that I thought a lot about. I have a passion for people and writing which lead me here. Communication is all about learning interactions with people and with outside forces. I am fascinated with this ever since I took a Communication class at LCC. I also decided on PR because of my love for writing. I have always been an English buff and writing has always come so easily to me. I thought this was a great minor because it will challenge me.…

Completing lessons 5-7 was a valuable learning experience since it was filled with readings and writing assignments that required a lot of critical thinking. Since I love to daydream, thinking is something that I enjoy. My thoughts usually comprise of my plans for my day, and how I can improve and complete the tasks before me. I always feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment after run things in my head first. Before this class, I wasn’t very comfortable with critical thinking since I…

MLA Format Exercise The last English course I took was an online essay writing class. I honestly didn’t like the course very much. It just seemed like I would turn things in and then I would get feedback and the teacher would tell me exactly what to fix to get a better grade. Looking back at it I don’t feel like I grew academically through taking the course. One thing I did learn from the online class was a better understanding of different types of essays.Such as; descriptive, expository,…

This is actually a good question! Personally, I will share with my wife, friends and family members before I share with my boss or co-workers. I make that statement because of the line of work I am in. My field of work does not require any writing skills yet it does require reading skills. When I say reading skills I am referring to reading blueprints of symbols and abbreviations rather than words. I am a welder and we have to read blueprints in order to put a part together and weld it…

enabling me to get my perspective across in a very coherent and understandable manner. Learning these writing techniques will help me greatly in future classes, my future career and even my own private writings. In other classes I am required to write papers and responses to questions, by taking these writing courses I find it much easier to answer these questions in a manner that is easily legible, organized, and possibly enjoyable to read. If I had not taken UWRT I am sure that I would be at a…