Pencils

Personal Response to Bonnie Liang's "An Ode to a User Friendly Pencil" How many times have we've been told to hand in formal writing typed? For the average writer this is already assumed to be the standard. Having a computer is seen as favourable for writing. Although, according to Bonnie Liang, this may not be the case. In her essay "An Ode to a User Friendly Pencil", she suggests that pencils surpass the computer as a writing tool. Laing goes on to say that computers are too expensive,…

of the pencil. After reading the chapter I was informed that the pencil was never actually made to write and the use of pencils to write didn’t come until many years after. The pencil was first used for people such as artists, the pencil was used to mark direct measurements in a very faint matter. Dennis Baron stated “The first pencils were made by joiners, woodworkers specializing in making furniture, to scribe measurements in wood”. I believe this is amazing, I never knew that the pencil that…

Some ballpoint pens and mechanical pencils are packaged like fountain pens—relatively large boxes akin to jewelry boxes—while PITT pens and wooden pencils as sold individually or in groups. These variations serve different levels of practicality and showmanship. The jewelry-like packaging of fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and mechanical pencils create an air of class around the item. Typically, this style of packaging is referred to as gift…

Students in the twenty-first century will use technology in school, to learn new skills. They will use computers in school, to help them write better. The students will also use erasers to make their work neat. We may not consider pencils as technology, but pencils are a type of technology used in schools, so students can do their organizing. These are some of the many types of technology that students will use in schools. Student will use computers in school for various reasons. Since there…

My blanket is a very special artifact, it has been with me many years. The beautiful colors on it remind me of a rainbow they stand out perfectly, and it is very soft and comfortable, it is from the store Vera Bradley along with my lucky pencil. It has my name on it so no one can steal it. Also when I was a child it went everywhere with me, to the mall, target, and even grocery shopping. My mother bought me this blanket, for my birthday. I got a long time ago and it is still sitting at the end…

of the behavior. 3.George is a 6 year-old boy with a traumatic brain injury which resulted in an intellectual disability. In his preschool class, he often refuses to engage with other children. The teacher reports his outbursts include throwing pencils and paper throughout the classroom. His teacher would like to help George interact with other children more, in hopes to reduce his…

Electronic Dictionary (E-Dictionary) under his desk and to continue on reading it to himself. In addition, due to Student B’s autism, he gets easily distracted while doing his Math class that sometimes when I observe him, he tends to play with his pencil grip with no reason at all, rush and write his answers sloppy, illegible and scribble his answers all over the Math…

World War I, he sent letters to his Auntie and kept her up to date on his life. Barret had a very creative imagination and it can be seen in his journal by how he wrote stories that personified different inanimate objects. In, “A Story of A Lead Pencil,” Barret is writing as cedar tree that watches all of his friend…

series of pictures taken, I printed the pictures off and proceeded to draw myself using only pencil. I had used both HB and HB4 pencils to draw these responses, and the reason as to why I had used only pencil was to get used to and familiarise myself with the feeling of drawing self-portraits as I have not had much experience drawing portraiture. There are a variety of reasons as to why I chose to use pencil as the medium, the first one being that it is a somewhat forgiving medium, and that…

In the first semester, I took studio art class. In this class I was assigned the task of creating a triptych of a fruit. A triptych is a piece of art that shows something in three different stages. I chose to create a triptych of a mango. I chose this fruit because it is my favorite fruit and I thought it would look great in a triptych. I got the okay from my teacher Ms. Boncher and started researching mangos. To create my triptych I started by researching the different shapes in a…