Technical writing

college writing class, I expected to breeze through the course with an easy-A and minimal effort after my successful completion of AP English 11 this past year. I began the year with the utmost confidence in my writing abilities, and believed that my skills were above par. It wasn’t until I received my score on the essay evaluation for my First-Week Essay- a measly five out of twenty- that I realized that this was not the case. At first, I was astonished that my seemingly exceptional writing…

adapted and learned how to do work, properly. My writing was not the best and I had many people help me and I researched many ways to improve my writing. One of the worst things I struggled with was my grammar. I usually did not check my writing when I finished and would always just revise and edit my essays instead of letting someone else look at it. This class has helped me to let someone revise my essays for me. In my essays I learned to improve my writing by reading my feedback from you. The…

Group Dynamics is the study of groups and how the people within them interact with each other. This semester I have been both a participant and an observer in the Guide to Purpose and Success class. This allows me to assess and analyze how I function in groups and how those around me function in groups. All groups are set up in different ways, and studying this group allowed me to gain knowledge about myself and society as a whole. As a participant, when we would form smaller groups to discuss…

In my search for a video to write over, I stumbled upon a title that struck me immediately. “There’s more to life than being happy” is a speech written by Emily Esfahani Smith and covers a deep issue that society faces. What is the purpose of life? According to Smith, meaning in life gives people something to hold on to, which, consequently, brings a deeper fulfillment than superficial happiness. Utilizing the three essential appeals to an audience; ethos, logos, and pathos, Smith has created a…

Her reviews of others work showcase her blunt attitude and scathing wit. Her early writing style most often employed sarcasm and a tentative balance between romantic and flippant. “Indian Summer”, one of Parkers better known poems, is about her transition from a young lady willing to subject herself to the sexism of the early 1900’s, to…

become outdated. She believes that the writer today resembles that of a programmer. In conjunction with this, Goldsmith states in his article “It’s Not Plagiarism. In The Digital Age, It’s ‘Repurposing’” that writers are exploring different ways of writing, including: “word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriation, intentional plagiarism, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, to name just a few”…

While reading Ender’s Game, I was responsible for tracking Valentine’s character development throughout the course of the novel. By doing this, I learned about what kind of character Valentine is and I learned about her personality. For my body biography of Valentine, my first symbol is a heart to symbolize how she is a loving and caring person, especially when something involves her brother Ender. Valentine’s love for Ender plays a major role in the novel. I placed the heart symbol on her chest…

Hermann Hesse a German- Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. Born on July 2, 1877, in Calw, Württemberg, Germany to his mother, Marie and his father, Johannes. His parents were of European ancestry and did much of their missionary work in India. At a young age, he was expected to pursue a career in religion. But he was very interested in his poetry and literature. After finishing schooling in 1893, he found a bookstore, antique store and a clock tower factory. This is when he pursued his poetry.…

better. All writers struggle to write shitty first drafts, but they never give up. After you’re done reading the first draft, start revising your first draft then begin to structure into the second draft. For example, She describes how when she was writing food reviews for California, the only way to complete the reviews was to first write a shitty first draft. On third drafts, you really focus on your purpose, voice, and grammar. She said that is okay to write shitty first drafts, then you can…

While focusing on how to develop my voice for my character, I’ve decide to compare two novels, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. While I read these two novels I decided to use Philip Lopate’s book To Show and To Tell as a reference for the way to tell a story with double perspective. In Junot Diaz novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar we are introduced a third person point of view narrator who later appears in the work himself telling a…