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got instead of a boring class full of boring writing was an experience that has shown me how well I can write. It’s amazing how time has flown. When I take a look back at how many papers I’ve written, it seems like it is such an unfair representation of how much I’ve actually written and how much work I put into my papers. Some were drafted a couple of weeks in advance. Others were ripped from my mind in a haze of keyboard strokes and sweat. Regardless,…

structure. My first paper, a narrative titled Confessions of A Living Sin, was arguably the easiest piece to create, while simultaneously being the most difficult to write. Narrative pieces push writers to write of moments that are strong in emotion, and often times leave the writer vulnerable to whom is reading their work. For me, my vulnerability was discussing the ostracism I faced as a queer and transgender person in a conservative…

more time, I could have made this sentence better paraphrased, that required less commas. Another thing I felt I could have changed in my paper is the amount of quotes I used in my paper. For example, “The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read things differently according to their worth” (Adler 3). This quote could have been excluded in my paper though it was a good quote, did not relate much to what the topic I was trying to summarize on Alder. Lastly, in this sentence, “One…

The fourth project challenged me to convert the cultural artifact research into a new genre. Several genres were reviewed and I made the decision to use a children’s book as the genre for my fourth paper. The genre was interesting because I looked at books that made me think of my parents reading to me when I was young, and this enabled me to reflect on the start of my lifelong literacy. I tried to better understand this genre by looking at books that…

In a research paper, some professors recommend their students to add an abstract to their research topics. An abstract is a brief summary on outlining the importance ideas in a research paper. Scholars stated that a research paper should have a title and an abstract of no more than 150 words (Anonymous, 2002). Although an abstract is the first paper before the introduction, it is highly recommended to write the abstract last because it will allow the writer to grasp important ideas to their…

Freakonomics Critique This article was really confusing to read. I didn’t quite understand what was going on until about mid-way through the paper because of how it began. The title was How Freakonomics is Ruining the Dismal Science, but that title and anything related to the book itself, didn’t even show up in the article until it was nearing it’s end. How is an author going to write an article and only have around 4 sentences even related to the title? It’s extremely misleading and not likely…

judgement about whether others make effective rhetorical choices or not. In addition, the evidences play an important role in a persuasive paper, so I also need to determine whether the authors choose effective evidences to support their main claims. Through this assignment, I also reflect on my writings and think about how I can improve my paper using other people’s paper as references. To read, analyze, and synthesize complex texts and incorporate multiple kinds of evidence purposefully in…

better with using evidence to support my papers. This, to me, is my best accomplishment. I have also improved on my word choice, organization, and how I use my quotes. If you were to compare the first paper I wrote to the last paper I wrote, I feel as though it would be obvious on how much my organization has improved. Over the semester, I found that the hardest part of all of the essays that I have written was using and finding evidence. The first paper that I wrote was extremely hard to write…

teacher assigned us a six page research paper. I would consider this research paper to be one of the hardest papers I had to write within three weeks. For most students three weeks is enough time to write a research paper unless you are like me who procrastinates often. Since my teacher gave us three weeks this gave me a great deal of time which brought a lot of distractions. My teacher was very helpful, she was always there to help us and she broke up the paper into smaller tasks with set due…

Dr. Kamel’s journal submissions are often originally written as conference papers, which are typically presented at a conference or symposium hosted by Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and may then published in an SPE journal. For these types of papers, Dr. Kamel will first consider a topic that he would like to research and tries to find out if there is similar work done by other professionals in the oil and…