Iowa Writers' Workshop

Robert Browning, the author of Pied Piper of Hamelin, has written many literary works that have a lasting affect on those who read them. Browning was born May 7, 1812 in a suburb of London. One of Browning’s most famous works, Pied Piper of Hamelin was written near the end of Browning’s career, but was the single piece of literature that made him widely famous. Robert Browning, the author of Pied Piper of Hamelin, not only wrote many famous pieces of literature, but he is also considered an…

If you are a professional in any market, you need to be writing more. Not just any kind of writing, I am talking about well organized, informative content writing. I am talking about the type of writing that takes some time and preparation to create and it needs to be interesting and engaging. Are you asking yourself, why should I be writing when there are so many article out there I can forward and share? Well, you came to the right place. Let me tell you why. The first thing writing offers…

The book “They say, I say” written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine.…

should strive to master these skills to the best of their ability. Out of the three techniques, I would have to concede that writing is by far my weakest. However, the eight weeks I have spent in Writing 101 have truly helped me to become a better writer. Over the course of those eight weeks my writing skills, that had been suffering from years of atrophy, were challenged; the biggest challenge of all being the research paper I did on the use of the atomic bomb. The amount of research required,…

Throughout the year in Honors Freshmen Literature Composition, I have grown as a writer through fine tuning my strengths, acknowledging my weaknesses, and assessing my growth as a writer. I have improved my use of sensory detail, vocabulary, and word choice and set reading and writing goals for next year. My most prominent writing strength that I have improved during this year is my use of sensory detail. Throughout my recent writings, there is evidence of my expansion of sensory detail through…

This paper is about no ordinary man. This man is smart, talented, handsome and perfect. Of course it is I , Blake stoughton. I was not the best paper writer that has ever walked this earth but I have improved immensely. Many things have changed for the better, and somethings have not changed that need to. These papers have taught me a lot about how to read and comprehend papers better. My writing techniques and how I approach writing a paper has changed a lot. The first thing that has changed…

An evaluation of my writing strengths and weaknesses: My views on my own writing abilities change frequently. Some times I am under the impression that I am a relatively skilled writer for my limited experience, and then other times I feel I have know ability whatsoever, and should stop writing. Not stop entirely, but to not write anything I would have others read. I ordinarily do write with the intent mainly for myself, but some times I am in the mindset that I would like others to read my…

the professor was against college football than they should be too. I disagree. I like to be the student that goes against the flow, if you will. “Be against football for some reason or reasons of your own.” (Roberts 381) The main objective for a writer is to keep the audience interested in what you are…

TAuthor's Argument In Revisions Strategies Of student Writers and Experienced adult Writing by Nancy Sommers I read about how the current writing model has directed attention away from revision. Sommer discusses various models for how to revise papers throughout the chapter. She argues that “when movement fails to take into account in its linear structure-”first..then..finally”-is the recursive shaping of thought language; what it fails is account of revision” (writing about writing). Sommer…

1} Within both of the passages there are things I agree with. There are good things to bringing your dog to work, but then again there are bad things as well. Both passages made very good points, but this is how I feel about it. 2} In response to the first passage I agree, I do think people should be a loud to bring there dog to work, whatever the reason may be, for example: if your dog is a service dog and you need to have it with you, or if being away from your dog worries you. That is your…