Paper Towns

This week’s work was focused on two themes that I 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…

In my World Religion Class, I have recently been given the assignment to write a couple two-page papers on the Holy Trinity of Hinduism and Karma. To be able to write these papers I decided it would be helpful to read through the Hinduism chapter of the World Religions Textbook. The video, “How to Read Your Textbooks More Efficiently – College Info Geek” by Thomas Frank outlined some tips for reading textbooks for a reason other than just to look over a certain amount of pages in a certain…

Why am I not applying for law school? When I graduated high school and on up to my third semester of college, I was a Political Science major determined to go to law school. I even created a vision board with the list of school that I was going to apply to. Now, three years and three major changes later, I find myself applying for a Masters of Arts in English at Wayne State University. English began to alter my plans during my first major specific class. Prior to my Children’s Literature class,…

Space has always been the subject of many people’s imagination. Everyone, from children to adults, will be inspired to find out more after looking at the wondrous night sky with luminous stars. Where, however, can you find a trustworthy book that can cover all aspects of the universe? The answer is the book A Furious Flight into the Final Frontier. Along with very detailed explanations, the book is also filled with rich, colorful pictures about planets, stars, and all space related topics to…

have learned how to read things in a way that addresses the topic in an academic manner. Seeing beyond the surface level of readings, and papers. I have also learned how to critically analyze my own texts and writing, when I started…

continued to stay this way until about ten years ago, when I began to write reports while serving in the military. I started to learn that it was more of an art form rather than just putting my ideas down on a piece of paper. For a living, I currently write for our nation, and papers I write have the possibility of going to the highest levels of our government. So now when I write, I take much more pride into what I am doing, because I enjoy the feedback…

How to become a good reader? This question might sound like a nonsense question on the surface to the most of you. And you may reply: ’what do you mean by how to read? As if we haven’t read a single thing in our entire lives’. But, the fact, my friends, is that most of us, although we have been reading since the age of 3 to 5 years or even younger, do not know how to read. Even I came to know that a couple of months back. Let understand that with the help of a real-life example. I am a student…

The overall purpose of Chapter 1 Springing Forward from the Past: An Introduction is to inform the reader of which topics that are going to be taught in each part in this book. What chapter one is describing is information about who is behind all of the reading in the textbook. The book is made up of essays, fact sheets, briefs, and symposiums from members of the Council on Contemporary Families (CFC). These people study and work with families all the time. The material in this book are not…

For this radical revision, I decide I wanted to do something unique, and from what I have seen, mine is the only one of its kind in the class. At first, I had considered creating a series of drawings that depicted how uncertainties affected an individual, but after having an internal debate with myself. I decided to create one drawing with an erasure poem that narrated what was going through a person's head, but at the same time, the narrator would be the individual going through this situation…

I am qualified for the role of copy editor because I am skilled at proofreading. Previous experience has helped me strengthen my proofreading skills. I have a strong understanding of various grammar and punctuation rules, and I’m able to research what I’m sure of so that all the work is written as correctly as possible. Lastly, I know how to communicate with others and will give constructive criticism when necessary to ensure that everyone who is writing gets help when they need it and that they…