Substantive due process

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…

Looking back onto my first day off class, I realize how my knowledge has grown immensely. I am now able to take the lessons I learned in class and apply my new knowledge in all situations of writing. To begin, the class strongly focused on rhetoric, therefore, my understanding of rhetoric expanded greatly. I can now apply rhetoric strategies, such as appealing to pathos, to a variety of genres because of my experience in writing expository, persuasive, and academic pieces. With my new…

Even though it does not feel as though I have improved much, I know that the grades on my essays say differently. After looking over my essays, I noticed that I have become 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…

1. During High School, I completed many papers on various subjects. I completed various English papers for creative writing. Biographies to reading responses were a daily activity in high school, they consisted of responses to literary work to biographies of successful individuals. Biology classes, which i was in, required research on specific topics and responses in report format. I really enjoyed researching topics and interconnecting ideas and concepts in to an essay or research paper.…

Once I’d gotten into annotating, I was able to determine the tone, the argument, the speaker, audience, and situation effortlessly (also due to the blatant nature of the poem). In the short story “A Question of Blood”, I had the most difficulty in trying to determine the argument. I had trouble here because I had found starting annotating this story to be a challenge as well, I was not entirely…