Semicolon

The lack of encounters with slave owners during her formative years could possibly have contributed to her abolitionist stance, from not being numbed to the concept in her youth. Another great influence was the he Semicolon club.During Stowe’s career in Lane Theological Seminary, she joined the Semi-Colon club. At this club, she heard many different perspectives concerning slavery. Stowe used her father’s teachings, her location, and the members of her social groups…

Out of the many lessons I learned in this course I enjoyed learning the aims of writing, expressive aim, referential aim, persuasive aim, and literary aim. Although my writing experience in the military was writing papers in referential aim and persuasive aim, the reason I choose the three essays below is because they were written in expressive aim. While I was making corrections and editing these three essays, I noticed that there was one common mistake not only in these three essays, but in…

formal rules that govern the English language. Although I am an avid reader and I have always been confident of my vocabulary skills and comprehension ability, I knew that I was not a skilled author. I was unsure of the proper placement of colons and semicolons. I was unable to define a pronoun-antecedent agreement. I consistently wrote in the passive voice. I read and wrote with more of an instinctual feeling of what was and was not correct, depending on how it sounded in my mind, rather than…

My First English Essay This is my first essay in this class and its nerve wrecking. The fact that it counts so much as a grade makes me sweat. I 'll tell you some of the techniques I use that helped me write this essay. Like what made it easier for me to write it, or how I composed the essay, and what helped when I got writers block. I don’t have a favorite place where I write or a special technique. I am not the type to sit down in a desk and have my paper and my pen in front of me or…

Fruits of Wrath William Blake’s A Poison Tree exhibits creative sentence structures and metaphors of growth to create a twisting or curling movement through the text; this illustrates wrath growing like a vine, sprawling without direction, uncontrollable. Blake’s melodic style, use of figurative language, and inversion delivers layers of syntax, bold imagery, and a musical tune that accentuates the spiraling growth of wrath. The poem is composed in trochaic tetrameter--with a few iambic…

It’s hard to admit that the writing you made, your masterpiece, has errors. Many authors go through many extensive drafts before they are satisfied with the outcome of their work. Being satisfied isn’t necessarily having a work of art with no mistakes in it. I make errors in the papers I write. It may be because writing it isn’t my forte. Some of the errors in my papers are shown in the final drafts which isn’t good. I have learned to fix my two prominent issues in my writing parallelism, and…

During the reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, I was “stirred” by his absence of quotation marks. I thought to myself and I’m sure it crossed a few others minds, “what did McCarthy do to be able to write a full novel without any quotation marks?” Essay writing or just any writing at all would be a lot easier if we, like McCarthy were aloud to desert quotation marks. We would no longer have to worry about if we put a comma before or after the quotation mark or how to properly format it but…

Throughout my high school career I have always felt that I was a strong writer. This course has helped me become even stronger; pointing out my weaknesses and my strengths. Where I fail at some point I succeed in others. Where I rise to the occasion or ultimately fail, these papers represent both scenarios quite well. The first paper to discuss is the argumentative paper. Titled simply The Modern Culture it was used to argue the point across that modern culture in today’s society can be, at…

reader. So, I started implanting my classmate’s advice and, over the course of the class, my essays got more and more attention and I continued to improve my grade. Even today, in my college essays, I still try use my class’s feedback and add a semicolon (where proper of course) to each of my essays to add variety, and work hard to add a strong hook. It was with the help and feedback I received in those review sessions that I learned how to make my essay interesting no matter the subject…

Junjie Liu Ms. Kennedy American Lit. Per.7 Dec. 29th 2015 The Awakening was published by the American woman writer Kate Chopin in 1899. During 19th century, society had made great progress in many aspects; however, women were not allowed to strive for their self identity. In men’s eyes, women were similar to the property belonging to men. The author focuses on this idea in The Awakening and portrays female’s social status, marital life, and autonomy. The main character, Edna Pontellier, grows…