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I believe I did a very good job on this paper and had several strengths. In this paper, I was able to form a strong thesis statement to argue my point concerning Thomas Jefferson’s diction and reluctant colonists. I also believe I did a good job paying attention to Thomas Jefferson’s diction and audience as well. From this critical reading, I was able to write a strong textual analysis. However, I could improve this paper by adding the effects the Declaration of Independence had…

considerable difference in my writing. Since starting English101, I have tried to make changes in my pieces to better fir the leaning goals of the class. I think that the first learning goal is relevant in the first paper I wrote oddly enough. I really wanted to do well on the paper so I spent more time analyzing the details of it. I knew that I did not know a lot about patriotism besides how thankful I feel to have been born in the United States. That is why I decided do some research based on…

we would write papers I would just go along with the topic. Once we got to pick our own topic for essay four it showed me that there is value in what I was writing about. This will help with future papers in the way that I will choose topics that I will enjoy writing about. In the time that I have spent writing papers this class has taught me what to do right and wrong. In the end I feel as if this class is the best for people so that they can know how to write a good passing paper. That I…

My biggest problems when it came to writing was using commas and semicolons, coherence of my papers and responding to a text. I use the word “was” because I found several resources to help me out with the biggest problems I have when it comes to my writing. The best resources I found for these problems are The Little Seagull Handbook, the MEAL plan template and paperrater.com. One of my favorite resources that I used was the Little Seagull Handbook and this resource helped me with my semicolon…

Then I applied my new knowledge of rhetorical situations with an example from my work on my short essay. For example, in my first paper when I was explaining how there was a rhetorical situation in my short story that I wrote in my freshmen year of high school I first provided a direct quote of rhetorical situations. Then I provided background knowledge explaining how I used two messages…

I have never really enjoyed writing this comes from feeling I don’t really have the skills I need to be a competent writer. However in high school I loved writhing poetry I never wrote a journal but I would use my poems to vent my feeling and to basically cope with being a teenager. This would probably be my most positive time with writing after I graduated, I quickly learned that finding the time and motivation to write was almost nonexistent. With no time or inspiration, I slowly stopped…

This course has improved myself as a writer and has a critical thinker; with the essays that were written I was challenged to ask more questions and see the bigger picture on things and view a subject from all sides. I never wrote an argumentative essay before this course, so this course taught me what it was how to write one and what exactly I was looking for and what I would be able to improve on. I know there is still room for improvement, but taking this course has already made me a better…

I decided to choose the Ashford Writing Center because I want to improve my writing skills and learn how to be a better writer. The three topics I chose to discuss are personal writing which is under the types of college writing tab, proofreading which is under the writing tools tab, and fixing fragments which is under the grammar tab. I learned personal writing is subjective writing which means it is based on personal feelings or opinions not facts and statistics. I even learned personal…

identify a discourse community in my paper. I wrote my paper about the Western Illinois Swim Team. I broke my paper down into many groups with subdivisions in order to fully explain in detail the team and their similarities and differences. By writing this paper for an audience who had absolutely no idea about the topic, it allowed me to get deep into my explanation and include more details. I learned that the discourse community is extremely important in a person's paper, and that it helps to…

and being told to freewrite about anything, I froze not remembering how to just write though I am a girl who normally has plenty to say. Once I finally got started another problem soon arose, it had been so long since I had to put anything down on paper that my mind was unaware of how to properly write a paragraph let alone an essay if I had too. There were words that would come to mind that I couldn’t remember how to spell so I would end up changing how I was saying something or what I was…