Conclusion As my entries are finally put together in this portfolio, I have to say that my best paper/essay so far during my writing experience is my final narrative. My reasoning to this choice is because of the personal experience given in the writing, and what the actual wording represents in my life, that made it so much better for myself to write and it flowed much easier for me. I have always struggled with putting my words into formal writing but the narrative paper gave me a different view…
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enjoyed this pattern of development and knowing how to use properly use it now I feel I can control it use. Prior to this class I feel I wrote regularly in narration and did not seem to understand how it could be a blessing and curse. Writing in this method is very helpful when I am trying to explain a personal story or to incorporate a backstory to an issue. However I now know that I have previously used this in writing that it was not needed and it devalued my work. For example in my process analysis…
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In my opinion, I have been doing fairly well in this class. I switched schools from BASIS Medical Center, and this is the level of difficulty of almost all of my classes last year, so I could already predict my grade. However, last year, Honors English Language did not require me to compose a timed writing every week, and this therefore made it more challenging for me to keep my grade up if I did not score a minimum of 7 on the essays. The apparent pattern of using abstract example instead of concrete…
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In his essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” author Sherman Alexie writes about the pleasures of reading. His thesis “My father loved books, and since I love my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well” best describes the author’s position on the topic. He conveys his thesis to the reader through the primary purpose of expressive writing. His use of personal anecdote along with the secondary purpose of literary writing gives insight to the reader of the lives…
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Esplin 1 Literacy Narrative At times of stress when my thoughts and feelings are a tangled mess, with no way to know what I am thinking and no way to express to others how I am feeling, writing helps me to find the ends of my knot of thoughts and work them back through the entangled stress in my mind; that is how I feel about writing. Writing is a way for me to escape the chaos of life, allowing me to focus on one task while taking the time to carefully word the thoughts that I am trying to express…
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Writing in academic and professional settings can be extremely difficult to do and do well. In this essay, I’m going to explain audience, pre-drafting, and thesis to those who have not learned the proper way to implement these elements into their writing and help them craft better essays in the future. After reading these concepts, you will better understand the power these elements hold in your writing, and your writing will become much more effective. Audience is a specific group of people targeted…
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Michelle Snyder ESL Teacher Interview TE 826 Dr. Glenn Tracy 2-22-12 My person that I interviewed is very unique besides being a very good teacher. She had received the honor of being selected ‘Teacher of the Year” a few years back here at Perkins County Schools (Grant, NE), so I knew her methods and strategies were tried and true. She has several different hats in our school system with English Language Learner (ELL) being just one part. She was asked to work with/for me in this program with…
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Over the five weeks of this course, I have learned the primary goal of this class is to teach you what type of leaner you are so you can become a successful person in school and in the world. My concept of learning is to build an understanding of how I learn and if I am able to apply my school education to my everyday life. Learning is not only in the classroom, learning is actively we do ever moment of our day. Before this course, I thought learning was having the ability to remember what you read…
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The sole purpose of this essay is to inform the reader by describing what doulblespeak language is and the many ways it twist the reality of the matter at hand. I’ve been taught and been told my entire life is too tell the truth whether it be good or bad, I have to face it. This essay about doublespeak is the exact opposite. This entire reading describes how cowardly we are because we can’t even sit down man to man/woman to woman and tell you how it is in black and white. Doublespeak is pretty much…
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wellbeing whilst writing the poem. The poem is composed of two sonnets, although Owen disrupts the pattern in the second verse with a couplet, and 12 consecutive lines following. The use of the formal poetic form and then the changing of patterns and rhymes, accentuates the disruption and chaos throughout the events that occur in the war. Owen uses the formal poetic styles to help draw attention to the broken verse and creates an unsettling poem from the deliberate change of verse pattern. In the first…
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