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When I started my first quarter at Midwestern University, I felt most ambivalent about writing papers. The only writing I had done since I graduated from the University of Arizona consisted of progress notes, risk assessments, and individualized service plans. I thought I had a sufficient knowledge APA format, but I had not written a formal APA paper in at least three years. Needless to say, I was thrilled to see I would be taking a course entitled Fundamentals of Graduate Writing. After the…

It is extremely beneficial if you brainstorm and draft before you start crafting your paper. Before attending Segue I just started writing my papers without creating a developed outline. This was a challenge for me because my thoughts were not organized and I did not know how to structure my entire paper. An important tool to use throughout this course is the Rules for Writers book. This book teaches you how to craft a thesis and how to use MLA…

future assignments. Reading the sample essays as a class and breaking them a part piece by piece made it easier to understand what you are looking for in our Scholarly Rhetorical Analysis. I was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each paper. But I also heard new opinions from peers that I overlooked when reading it by myself. I think that was the most beneficial to me because if something did not work in one of the essays I could look at my own essay and try to avoid doing that…

In English 1101 I have improved my writing skills. I learn things from grammar, about run on words and how to put my thoughts together and put them on paper. I learn how to research paper. I learn how to change my writing process based on the guidelines of the assignment that I was giving. I didn't do really well in that class because of my bad time managing skill, I didn't get a lot of work done on time. I have a lot of things going on in my life. After school I go straight to work, and after…

However, integrating it in the paper is so much different. In the English 1301, I just need to paraphrase more than using my own words. But in the research argument, I have to take a stand and prove it with my own words. I got problem when integrating source as well as the way I used it as evidence to support my thesis. The grader said I know how to use source but the way I integrating it in the paper is a mess. I should clarify and make it clearer for them to understand…

this class that I wanted to improve at. First was my word choice. My word choice before this class had been extremely basic and simple. Another thing that I needed to work on was being able to convey my message on paper. I typically had very good ideas but when I go to put them down on paper they could not seem to come out the way I want them too. My biggest thing coming into this class was trying to work on my…

to college, I was scared to take a college level English class. In high school, I slacked off all of my English classes due to the fact that all teachers taught pointless lessons. In addition, students would get A’s or B’s for the words that are on paper rather than the critical analyzes. Lang 120 is the first English class to step away from my passive writing and challenge myself more on critical analyzes and the stages of writing. In my Lang 120 class with Professor Pisano, I learned how to…

The argumentative essay was widely regarded as the hardest essay we are going to have to type this year. The hardest part, in my opinion, was to heavily implement our voice so that we did not turn this into a research paper. The essay was more I had always thought of myself as a good writer, so I thought college writing would not be too hard. This was not the thought when I got my first rough draft back. I then knew college writing was going to be harder than I expected. This was my first time…

When I registered for classes this semester, I was extremely nervous about taking this written class. I never felt comfortable writing papers. I would procrastinate until the very last minute to complete any writing assignment. I tried to go into this semester optimistic and attempt to figure out ways to be successful in this class. One of our assignments was to discuss our goals is for this class. My goals were to gain confidence in writing, learn the proper APA formatting and work to work on…

I started this writing process by reading through the literary criticism packet we received in class and attempting to choose a lens. Originally, I wished to conduct my research through a feminist lens, but overtime my ideas evolved and I changed lenses completely. I began research using the Bloom Databases and found many insightful articles describing social class. Since I could find so much information on social class, I felt that this would be a good topic to choose, however on its own it…