Linguistic rights

A time when I struggled was when I was in Spanish 3 in Horvath’s class last year. The 3rd year of Spanish is infamous for its difficulty compared to the other years and many Spanish 4 students express that the skill needed to do well in the 3rd year class surpasses the 4th year one. Not only was the grammar difficult, but the oral and listen portions were more arduous as well. When faced with such a strenuous class, it was very stressful; my whole standard of studying and work quality would…

Slang Words Don’t Ruin Language The article is “Teens Aren’t Ruining Language” by Adrienne Lafrance. This article talks about the slang words that have been brought to the light by teens. It also mentions very brief history of slang words that are not used anymore. Three things that this article covers are what slang words mean, how it is spreading and being used by all ages, and how it doesn’t affect language. I strongly disagree with the part on it not effecting language. My first reason is…

Writing is one of the many important skills in every student’s life. It is a form of communication because it lets an individual deliver the message with simplicity and in a written form. I clearly remember that when I was a kid, I used to get very excited when I was going to learn something new. The earliest experience I can remember about writing is when I was five years old and I had to learn how to write in Bengali and English. I remember my first day of school in Bangladesh; I was just a…

Final Exam Essay In the past 10 months, I have accomplished a great amount as a writer. As the year closes I find myself reflecting on how i have grown with the help of an awesome teacher and school curriculum. Also, I have improved my skills in avoiding repetition, focus, organization. In addition, I have realized what I need to work on in future years. A problem I persistently acquired during the writing of my Sonnet was repetition. While acceptable when in proper context, repetition isn't…

Comments: Reading the first assigned reading sections of, "The Bedford Guide for College Writers", has already given me ideas of how to improve different writing strategies and techniques that can be difficult in writing college papers. Chapter one helps explain the process of writing of generating ideas, processing ideas, and the steps to constructing a good paper (6-15). For me, this is one of my struggles I have with writing. I tend to write in one sitting, rather than taking time between…

I think my middle school writing career overall was not really that big of a deal. I just write because the simple fact that I don’t want to get a bad grade and especially if the assignment was an important factor to my grade and I want to get a decent grade. There's not really much of a story to tell besides, I just wrote because I had no other option but to write. My strengths as a writer are coming up with an interesting or funny story. I believe the weaknesses I need to improve on is I need…

In an excerpt from the autobiography Fault Lines (1993), Meena Alexander explores her fractured identity as an outsider who has known too many cultures to truly belong. She explores and represents this identity using imagery and metaphor. Alexander communicates her individuality in order to discover who she is and to relate to other people’s feelings that they don’t belong. She addresses those who have also felt that they have a broken identity, using a reflective and distressed tone to…

My writing process is currently just typing whatever comes to mind at the moment and then going back to read over it. I’ve only written a personal narrative essay, I haven’t made a decent writing process yet. I also let a few of my friends read my paper and help me make corrections on Google Docs. On an estimate, I probably spent around 1-2 hours daily, typing and revising my paper in my dorm. Like I stated before, I currently just write whatever comes to mind and then revise it later. I also…

The simplest spark of dusk can be attractive to an artist’s perspective. George Orwell, who wrote the dystopian novel of 1984, asserts the literary device of defamiliarization to embed concrete information in each of his works. Does “creamy paper” (9) mean anything at all? Well, yes because readers often ponder how papers would usually be described as smooth, but ”creamy” is out of the ordinary. As a matter of fact, Orwell started out 1984 with “It was a bright cold day in April…” (5), which…

I feel that I have improved in many skills throughout this course but also have many skills that I have found that I need to improve more. The skills that I have developed throughout the units of the course are my reading and writing. The skills that I still need improving still are my communication skills and my viewing skills. Firstly I have improved my reading skills. Throughout the cosures, I have learned many things from reading like the before, during, and after reading skills. I have…