Stationary process

The English 102 class has been my interesting journey of developing some significant skills in essay writing. Writing is expressing feelings through words. Powerful writing capability helps authors to communicate efficiently and effectively. My semester begins with some struggling phases. Although we have completed our English 101 on writing entire semester in MLA format, I still lacked detail knowledge on it and worked on the element features of MLA format to master this format. As we research…

Amy Tan is an American writer who comes from a family originated from China. She was born on February 19th, 1952 in Oakland, a major West Coast Port city in California a few years after her parents immigrated from China. As a child, Tan was always pushed by her parents to get into the honor roll in school and to have a successful career by becoming a doctor or a concert Pianist. Her parents already had her life planned out for her. Since Tan’s parent’s were from China and neither ever attended…

Tamia Fluker’s Critique Professor Jaye gave his English 101 class an assignment to write a literacy narrative. The narrative’s objective was to discuss a time in one’s life that impacted their literacy growth. Tamia Fluker’s literacy narrative “A Day in the Life of a Reader” successfully met this objective. Although Fluker’s essay had a lot of positive areas there were a few areas in which she could improve. First, Fluker started with a title that did inform the reader’s on what she was writing…

The writing expected from college courses is one that most are unfamiliar with. Although students learn basic English skills throughout grade school and up to high school, most of the advanced steps are forgotten by the time the student is to enter college. Paired with this, are the nontraditional students, who haven’t studied advanced academic language for long periods of time. Professors are expecting students of all kinds of study to have a high academic vocabulary and high writing skill.…

By: Eastlyn Koons After re-reading all of the previous stories, I picked the story that had what I thought, the best examples of descriptive writing. Putting all these thoughts in account, I chose“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. All throughout the story, there is so much description. The first page is a great example. I do not have enough space to put down the whole entire first page but I can give examples. Examples such as, “The flower garden is prim, the house a gleaming white, and the…

Over the first semester I feel I have been appropriately challenged in the area of writing we have done this year. I learned many new skills, but the most important one involves English and how to write properly. As for the first writing, I really did not understand what was right and what was wrong. Because I never paid close attention to specific rules in how to write. I truly believe it has been hard for me. I really have to concentrate when writing to be able to fully complete me sentences.…

Throughout the course of Professor Hamlet’s English 102 course, my writing style improved by the writing techniques that I learned both in and outside of class. In order to improve my writing style, I made several appointments for the Mary Baldwin College Writing Center. The Writing Center is where I learned how to form an outline, review and revise my essays, in order to create a thorough and well written final draft for both my English 102 and French Literature 270 course. I learned that I…

In my few years learning intense reading and writing, I feel that this English 101 course will help me expand my skills. I hope to gain some good attributes for my writing and reading abilities. A few attributes I hope to learn are: composing more professional documents, writing a paper that will convey my whole idea, and how to purposely use imagining purposes to my full advantage to gain better attention from my audience as Sarah R. Stein mentions page five in the DK Handbook (2013). By…

My revision of “Face it, America!” that follows this cover letter reflects what I have learned in English 1021 so far. While revising this essay, I learned when to use present tense in my writing and past tense in my writing when appropriate. In this class, I have learned to use more transitions and appropriate transitions in my writing. My revision reflects this because in my second paragraph where I mention the significance of police officers, I use transition words for every new sentence that…

“The Maker’s Eye” In the article “The Maker’s Eye” by Donald Murray, the author explains the aspects of rewriting and how writing isn't a one step process. Most professional writers live by the phrase “writing is rewriting.” One of Murray’s idea is about the importance of revision that plays a big role in becoming a better writer. Murray mentions Peter F. Drucker, a prolific business writer, who claims that his first draft is “the zero draft.” Both, Murray and Drucker, state how each draft can…