The Format

the number of papers I wrote this year, I have many pieces I can take to college with me, and use as references for future writings. Before this year I did not know how to write in American Psychological Association (APA) format. Now I am proficient in writing papers in this format and am prepared to write this way for college. This portfolio contains a sample of my best writings over the course of the year. I chose to include my Expository paper, my…

Achievement of Course Goals Throughout this course, I have greatly achieved the majority of the course goals. I was able to use the proper content, format, and style for developing effective documents. I followed the handouts examples that were given out and greatly utilized these resources to appropriately format my own. Besides using the correct format, I was able to adjust my writing to various audiences, situations, and purposes. The literature review, preliminary memo,…

Therefore I was eager to get started I was also a little nervous on the first day. Little did I know that English 1301 would make me grow to be a better critical thinker, improve my expressive writing skills and teach me skills to organize my texts in MLA format. Our introductory essay was a diagnostic essay about ourselves. After Mrs. Keller gave us some basic instructions we began brainstorming. At first I thought this should be easy, but I quickly realized that knowing the material does not…

enjoyed the most about it was that my professor utilized so many different types of assignments and activities to help us with the material. The majority of the classes I have taken here at Temple have relied on a straightforward PowerPoint lecture format. In this course, while PowerPoints were used, there were also readings from seminal journal articles…

discrimination in today’s society. To organize my thoughts on this specific paper, I chose to do a topic outline. The paper started with a clever opening paragraph and continued with strong supporting facts. At this point, I realized that my paragraph format had excelled tremendously. Per the syllabus, the research paper was my next assignment. The skill I chose improve during this essay was researching valid sources. As a writer, my finished product met above and beyond my personal…

Steganography, or data hiding is the technique of embedding a message (pay¬load) in a medium (carrier), without causing suspicion about the existence of hidden data in the medium. The perturbations to the medium are carried out in such a manner that there is no perceivable noise component introduced. One way to illustrate the concept of steganography would be to analyze the Sim¬mons’ Prisoners’ problem. Two prisoners are allowed to communicate through a medium via an agent trusted by the warden.…

Evolution of Writing Writing Scenarios High school provided the ideal environment to succeed in writing persuasive, narrative, argumentative, and informational essays. Most variables such as audience, purpose, and format remained constant. With every essay the audience was the teacher, the format was typically five paragraphs, and the purpose was to inform or persuade. These conditions allowed students to foster the mindset that our writing was solely for the eyes of our instructor, and…

Usually, I prefer reading non-fiction or realistic fictions, so I assumed that I would enjoy Persepolis more than the first two books that were read in ENG1100C. While I enjoyed reading about Marji’s childhood experience, I hated the comic/graphic novel format. To begin, I had little to no knowledge about the Islamic Revolution before reading this novel. At the most, I knew little details here and there about the conflict. But as a whole, I knew nothing. For this reason, this book was a little…

much as the year went on so I had more of a background on the subject. I think that I can write more and easier because I have an easier time writing about my opinion as the year went on. I think while I wrote my 750 I changed my format. I think by me changing my format I can write clearly on what question I was talking about and easier to answer the questions that was being…

-Timing during your presentation: Another important aspect is timing. How long should you take to make your speech? Some think that it should all depend on the subject you want to talk about, which is true; but you should also think about the timing for the speech by asking yourself just how much is enough to inform, entertain or educate people. How much is enough for questions after the speech? How long is long enough, when you are using accessories or tools to help you for your presentation?…