Technical writing

How I Used Public-School While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were similarities that lied within our home life, as well as coming from poverty and then making it in the end. During my time in high school, I had my own battles to fight every day, I was homeless, had a hard time finding the courage to make it through class and was stealing the bare necessities to make it week to week. I overcame this…

In the body of this essay I will examine the results of my Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typology personality test to not only fulfill the assignment requirements of this graduate school class but to also aide in further exploration of who I am. Ironically, on my social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, my “About Me” section reads, “Trying to be true to myself by embracing curiosity, awareness and growth.” This is something I wrote long before “Organizational Behavior” came…

What is human versus idea/phenomenon? There are several types of literary conflicts. A literary conflict is a struggle between two or more forces shown in a story. Some conflicts include more than one concept, trend, or group. Human versus idea/phenomenon includes technology, medicine, and progress. This type of conflict creates a struggle between people and concepts or trends that are shown throughout many stories. In the essay “Money Isn’t Everything,” there is a contrast between merit and…

Throughout the ever changing history of mankind, one thing remained the same: storytelling. From paintings on a wall to stories told in the tavern, people have always enjoyed a good story. One medium of storytelling is from mythology, Tales written by authors who could have experienced the events. However like people there will always be some different interpretations that changes the story completely. An example of this is the tale of the demigod Hercules and his encounter with the dangerous…

When I reflect on the feedback process, my self-critique and my focus of writing form I distinguished the appropriate feedback from the feedback that was not, by looking at how the feedback would improve my writing and help me to develop a better thought out piece of work. The reason why I did this is to become a better writer, to create a valuable piece of work and to input the actionable feedback that I received. The feedback I implemented improved my work by making it more cohesive and…

have in common, their loathing for essays. She presents and supports many points for her belief that college essays are possibly not even necessary especially considering that the instructor hates grading the essays just as much as the student hates writing them. After spending twelve years of your life in grade school you must then go on to obtain a college level education if you want to get a job making a decent wage. Many people see this as a dreadful but required phase of life to obtain a…

JLMC 474: Exam #2 Short answer: Please answer the following short answer questions. Provide at least four to six sentences for each response. Be sure to provide support from the readings/videos for your answers. 1) What is the filter bubble, and what positive/negative implications could it have? "The Filter Bubble" reading defines the filter bubble as a filter used by Google to narrow our searches to only ones that best fit us personally. Everyone has their own personalized search list…

The author, Timothy Shanahan, wrote “You Want me to Read What?!” which was published in November of 2013 in the Educational Leadership publication, and he makes a valid argument that informational text is as important as literary readings in the English classroom. Shanahan builds on his standing with facts clearly built from his research, citing compelling facts and data. Shanahan’s “You Want me to Read What?!” effectively persuades that teaching informational text and literary readings are…

In a nation so diversified and complex, language has become one of the most salient and relevant topics in the United States, especially amongst power structures. Language is a powerful communication device that can depict some as weak while empowering others. The force of a person’s voice can determine how other people react to them and think of them. The use of language directly affects interactions between people by justifying or doubting the actions of an individual. Also, dialect creates a…

Often times the most important characters in a story are the ones who are hardly there at all. They often complement the cliche main cast of any film or book. For example, in in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the main character’s parents were never alive throughout the entire series, and have very few scenes featuring them in action. However, their roles in the main character’s decisions. Similarly, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein includes a character that doesn’t have a name, never speaks, and…