This class has been an interesting class this semester. I never dreamed of actually having to take a writing class. When my advisor told me there was going to be a Comp one class and also a Comp two class that I had to take I was worried. I have learned so many things about correctly writing over this semester that it is very insightful now. I will always be the reader, not the writer but that ok because I have had a wonderful Comp teacher that has helped me more than I could have dreamed. I know that if I have any problems with not understanding specifically what is being assigned that the extra help is there. As a class, we learned to help each other and help the other students to stay on course with each assignment. There are so many things this class has taught me about writing. It’s not just sitting down and spitting out crap. It’s about knowing what you are doing in advance. If there is a specific paper that needs to be written, our teacher taught us the correct way of finding how to write that paper. I had never heard of the different styles of writing before this class, and it taught me those styles. I now know how to write a paper in each format and where to go to make sure that it is…
Rosenwasser and Stephen’s “Fourteen Short Takes on Writing And Writing Process” contain a variety of helpful tips for writing a strong and clear college essay. Banking, one of the fourteen ‘topics’, stood out the most for me, mainly but I have personally experienced this problem countless times in a classroom setting. Most of the incidences happen when the teacher becomes impatient with the class. Instead of leading a discussion where the students are in control of their own ideas, the teacher…
also shown how my writing improves through each draft. In the process essay, I accurately describe and analyze my writing process, and discuss how it can be improved, by making it more flexible to fit different styles of writing, especially creative writing. In…
Transfer or transition, as noted, is a key issue for TPW classes; students must adapt their academic writing skills to a new rhetorical situation, writing in the workplace. There is little doubt about the differences between academic and workplace writing—multiple studies in TPW have characterized these differences and promoted pedagogies to support students in the transition process. In one example, Flower and Ackerman (1994) described the difference between academic and workplace writing as…
scared me the most was having to write these long and complicated essays I had always heard other college students talk about. In high school writing was not really stressed; therefore, I felt quite unprepared and afraid to attempt a college level English course. As I walked into my freshman, fall semester English class I remember thinking “okay, these people don’t look like geniuses either, so I can do this.” Then came our first major writing assignment and I didn’t really believe it to be…
material and writing with more clarity and precision. Truly, I feel that my work in AP English this year has had a great impact on my writing capabilities. First, we will look at the all the different writing type that was given to me throughout the year. The first things we have are the group essays. The example I have of this type of essay was the “American Dream” essay. I score well on the essays, getting a 7, which would correspond to a “B” on the essay. I felt that although the…
My motivation for writing can be purely out of boredom, if something interesting has happened to me, or anything and everything in-between. Nonetheless, I prefer to write informational, persuasive and argumentative essays, and editorials rather than pieces that are more focused on me or a certain character, such as narrative essays. Although writing has given me a freeing creative outlet, it can also turn stressful. This is because writing, in my opinion, is meant to be inspired and innovative,…
IRE My writing career has consisted of write a subpar essay, turn it in, pass the class, repeat. Honestly, I dreaded taking this course, so I pushed it off to my sophomore year. However, my preconceived ideas about my lack of writing abilities were proved untrue. Not until this year, did I actually care about the topics I was writing about. It’s nice to have the opportunity to enjoy the writing process. For both papers, I had to work on organization of my paragraphs; for paper two, I focused on…
A scholar may use writing as a way for us to preserve what we learned, for future generations to build off of. A book author will use writing to pull people into the book’s world of mythos and legend. In both cases writing is used to communicate universally with those are not close, it is the best way we as humans have come up with, besides with words, to communicate. But how useful is writing if no one sees it? That’s why we reading is so vital. Reading can help us understand about the…
that does not have a constant or regular look while it varies. Writing and literature is an art within itself. We’re taught the letters of the alphabet, consonants, and vowels which is the beginning and basic art of literature. I truthfully state that our signature tells others about the characteristics we portray. Anytime I’ve had to write my signature from my young ages to signing my life away in college contracts, the format was always unique. It depended on if I was rushing or just simply…