On Writing

Honestly, I was less than excited to take this course. Writing 121 is a requirement for all Oregon Associates transfer degrees so it wasn’t like I chose to take the class for my own sake, and being alone having recently moved to Eugene assured me that I wasn’t going to find any familiar in the classroom or on campus at all. It’s not like I expected the course to be a breeze, but it sure didn’t seem like anything special. Having to announce my name change to the whole class wasn’t fun either, in…

Necessary to Take Writing Intensive Class? What do you think about writing intensive? Words, essays, or reports? How do you think about writing intensive class? It is good for students or a challenge. Writing intensive course is a class for students to develop their writings with promoting students’ abilities to write. In California state university system, writing intensive is a class students need to meet the graduation requirement. Students might be necessary to take the writing intensive…

Knowing I had to aim for a different audience this time around really affected my writing. When my tone for the original paper was rather informal and even somewhat fun, now I had to write for the APA, a group of people who take this line of work very seriously (as they should). Due to this, I gave my arguments a more serious tone, and I even expanded my vocabulary a bit to give a good impression. If I want the APA to listen to me, I should write in a tone they would use. I was careful about…

The first thing I do when assigned a new writing assignment is look over the rubric to see what my essay should compose of. Once I Have done that I can select a specific topic that I want to write about. I like to just think about my essay and all of its components before I start to write anything on paper. If the topic involves research I will look it up to make sure this is what I want to write about. After that I write my ideas down on a piece of paper or make a small outline composing of the…

understanding of writing and breaks down the steps of the writing process. I honestly wish my previous writing classes gave us this. I have never been the best writer, but this really helps. Planning is really essential to a great paper. When we plan we should always analyze the situation, gather the information, select the right medium, and organize the information. This is really important in any type of writing whether it is for an essay or a business message. The second step is to write.…

Academically, her writing became serious, while studying under a prolific creative writing professor “Louise Bogan” ("Sanchez, Sonia (1934-), An Introduction to." 202). Not only did Sanchez delve further into writing, but she pursued her religion further as well. Specifically, not only did Sanchez “[join] the Nation of Islam in 1972”, but she became extraordinarily…

Roberts. By doing so, I improved my ability to evaluate and critique the written work of others. Having multiple assignments to read through also helped me compare who possessed favorable writing skills and who the weaker writers were. When reviewing their work, I looked for grammatical errors, to help their writing improve, formatting issues —as it would hurt their grade if incorrect— and content issues, to make sure they were addressing the main points of the assignments in order to grasp…

In the articles “Free Writing” and “Desperation Writing”, written by Peter Elbow discusses the difference between free writing and desperation writing. This article is very helpful to read as a college student. It can help you decide what type of writer you are and how to become a better writer. It is pretty simple, as a free writers begin writing their papers and do not stop. They do not stop to edit or revise. They jot down any thoughts or ideas they have. Once they have finished with all of…

About a month ago, I was carrying out my plan of my research project of my writing class. As an international student, I spend most of time on this course because I need to improve my writing and reading abilities to a great extent. In my coming four years college life, hundreds of papers are waiting for me. I must master the ability to deal with all kinds of papers. Before last month, I never wrote this kind of essay which tell your thesis statement based on your research. You need to have…

feel guided my learning to becoming a more effective teacher of writing. These themes included developing as a writer through writing invitations and teaching students how to write effective sentences through sentence combining instruction. Living “The Writing Life” In completing this week’s writing invitations, I really challenged myself to try out different genres of writing in response to the prompt. I started off the first writing invitation as more of a reflective journal of sorts. I just…