Writing process

The Maus and Persepolis While we read a story, we can compare it to ourselves as well as to our community. We can imagine how these people lived at that time, and how were their conditions only by reading a small detail. Those small details make the reader to have more information about that time as well as about the characters. The two stories that we are looking at are Maus and Persepolis. The first story talks about holocaust, which was the killing of millions of Jews by Nazi during World…

An effective explanatory essay acquaints with the reader with a specific concept, or a major idea. That idea is then elaborated on. The essay titled Flow was much more effective in being educational and enjoyable. The flow of the information, pun intended, allowed the reader to focus much easier and to enjoy the reading while doing so. If I were to write an explanatory essay, I would use topics surrounding science. Flow by Clayton Strothers is a very well written explanatory essay. He goes…

to be. In our notes in class, we discussed the idea that a creation myth must awaken us to the mystery of creation, to explain the natural world, to pass moral and ethical codes and to teach and guide people through life. (Judeh) When originally writing my rain myth, I had to keep these standards in mind. Doing so aided me in structuring my myth and ensuring that it was coherent and intelligible. My myth explains how all of the plants, animals and humans were created and explained the reasons…

Throughout the course of Professor Hamlet’s English 102 course, my writing style improved by the writing techniques that I learned both in and outside of class. In order to improve my writing style, I made several appointments for the Mary Baldwin College Writing Center. The Writing Center is where I learned how to form an outline, review and revise my essays, in order to create a thorough and well written final draft for both my English 102 and French Literature 270 course. I learned that I…

for me my first semester. One of the courses apart of the plan was UNIV 150. After being unsure about the course, I did some further investigation on what I would be learning and then I asked myself, “Why do I need to take a course about college writing when I primarily took Pre-AP classes throughout high school? ” That question was quickly answered in the first couple of weeks of class when I would procrastinate and have to turn in assignments after due dates.…

When I first think of writing, I think of college. I think of the many papers that I spent all night awake, sometimes for days trying to write. Even though I have not been in school in over six years, I still write every day for my job. As a Behavior Therapist, we have many daily tasks that include writing of some kind. I have to write daily session notes that must be extremely detailed, precise, and clear of any grammatical errors. I also have to complete quarterly progress reports for each…

The first mask I wore had a hole in each eye the size of a dime. I started with this one because I thought I would be able to work on an assignment because I still had half the use of both my eyes, but it was still difficult. The assignment I was working on involved reading a book and then typing out answers to questions that were found from the reading. This was difficult because I had to constantly be looking back and forth between the book and my computer but I did not have full use of my…

When I was in the 10th grade, my high school had begun to do something called Spirit Week. Now, if you do not know what spirit week is this is when you have a different activity for each day of the week, for example on Monday it may be cartoon day and you get to dress as your favorite character. Well, on this day it was “Throwback Thursday” and my friends and I decided that we were going to dress up as TLC. So, that day we talked about everything that we had planned to wear and we decide that we…

I started my application to Old Dominion University earlier this year for the fall semester. The submission of applications and requirements was indeed a difficult task. The whole process took me a while before I was able to complete the application. Thankfully, I was accepted to this instituion. There were many factors that made my application to ODU difficult. I was recently separated from the Navy and as a result of my time in service I became accustomed to following specific orders. I got…

Reflection for “Analytical Thematic Paper” This a paper which to analyze the themes of the book which is called To Kill a Mockingbird. I wrote this paper to inform the theme of women need respect, and should play an important role in the society. I didn’t revise much grammar and punctuation problems in this essay because my grammar actually improved in my essay. However, I cannot be too proud of that, I still need to work on that. I deletes some sentences because I found out that there are a…