Technical writing

previous decades as educational policy makers and calls for having stressed a “back to basics” mentality. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is included as a major undergraduate study goal along with other primary key skills like writing, critical thinking, and problem-solving. There are some ways that I have improved my English competency spanning the period of the semester. I likely have heard professors use the term communication competence, but I have learned more about it in…

How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

SPC Hammond ranked 13th academically in a class of 92 students with a 91.63% average and earned a place of honor on the Commandant 's List. He displayed superior written communication skills by achieving a 94% average on all written evaluations. SPC Hammond 's excellent communication skills earned him a 96% average on all oral presentations. He achieved superior scores in all aspects of leadership with an average score of 93.76%. SPC Hammond demonstrated a unique ability to coordinate group…

a student may spend a great deal of time on the Internet, often reading many things. Unfortunately, the content and writing caliber of what they choose to read may not be high level or factual, therefore reading such material would not help to develop the literature skills of this individual. Reading, both for pleasure and for education, exposes the reader to high quality writing. It is generally believed that members of Gen X and Gen Y spend less time reading than generations before them.…

stretches of Possessions demonstrate. However, she remains committed to the idea that literature has a moral dimension, and that language can in fact get abstract truths and felt experience. As she says of her days at Cambridge, she learned that writing “was taught, in order to make the world better, more just, more discriminating.” Reflecting back on her experience at “Leavis Cambridge”, as Byatt refers to it, she is able to respect and admire the moral seriousness with which Leavis attempted…

training have you had in writing? My dream at eleven years old was to become a filmmaker, and the spark happened when my childhood friend Matt Reeves (director of Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) received a Super-8 camera from his…

Criticism What is the purpose of poetry? This question has been debated within the literary realm for centuries. However, Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope provided an answer to this question. Addison addresses the topic of poetry and art in his writings for The Spectator while Pope’s views on the subject can be found in “An Essay on Criticism.” Both authors address the role that nature plays in art while assessing how the two compare. These two authors also provide instructions for the…

to create an linkage between Watt’s personal bias towards formal realism and individualism in the 18th century novel and his real experiences and individual struggle to survive as a prisoner of war. It could explain how his choices of writers and writing styles influenced our collective history of what defines the 18th century novel and sets it apart from its earlier literary…

traditional writing and thought, and writing what you believe to be true personally instead (Whitworth, 2010). Equally, modernist writing has a tendency to take from past works and reprise, incorporate, rewrite, recapitulate, revise, or parody them (Whitworth, 2010). As aforementioned, Avison has done this with her poem “A Story”. Modernist poems tend to also include symbolism, futurism, surrealism, expressionism, imagism and so on. The literary techniques can be seen various times in her…

As we may or may not know “Persepolis” is considered a graphic novel and it is written and drawn up by the author,Marjane Satrapi, herself. This form of writing by Marjane Satrapi does in fact enhance the understanding of the novel and the culture because the book is told from her childhood perspective and we can get a glimpse of what was her thoughts during this certain time period. Also, based on how on how the pictures were drawn one can get a certain feel for the book. In the 1980’s,…