Writing has never been one of my strong points. It has always been hard for me to pull thoughts from my head and put them down on paper. I have never needed technical writing before taking this class so this was way out of my comfort zone. Technical writing has taught me so much about the proper techniques for writing in a business setting and I believe writing overall. I have had some fun with the course and I have had some disappointments. Having to create a business for class was fun…
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Dialogue section of my book. See, I’ve always had the most trouble with dialogue while writing narratives in my past. This assignment allowed me to learn why: one is not supposed to use real talk while writing as it weakens the story. By using dialogue the correct way, I will become able to recall a real conversation without having to give a word for word playback. Narratives are brought to life by way of dialogue, however, over-repetition of words and phrases will present a narrative similar to a bag…
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of the Everyday. Cisneros has a personal writing style. The way she words her sentences illustrates that she is talking about a situation that has actually occurred to her. “I had the same sick feeling when I was required to write my MFA exam…” Cisneros then speaks on issues she experienced growing up as well as what she experiences as an adult. Olaudah is the author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. Equiano creates a journalistic writing style expressing events that not…
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Narrative Unit: Personal Narrative 4th grade Common Core Standards | Writing and Composition Concepts and skills students master: 1. The recursive writing process is used to create a variety of literary genres for an intended audience Evidence Outcomes Students can: b. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. (CCSS: W.4.3) i. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator…
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journey to America. His narrative portrays the harsh conditions faced in an effort to settle and offers the reader an insight to life as an outlier. Likewise, Olaudah Equiano’s, “The Life of Olaudah Equiano” illustrates the personal and emotional experiences lived through the slave trade as a slave himself. Although both narratives offer the reader an insight to historical accounts, they differ in their unique aspect into separate lives of struggle. In these two narratives, both Equiano and Bradford’s…
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This paper is ironic because I’m writing about why I don’t like writing. I have little interest in writing. Not because I’m an incompetent writer, and not because I find it hard. No, I despise writing because how trivial it has become. Most writing I’ve done for school is simple regurgitation of information. I’m given a topic, I sit down at my computer, find an article or two, process the information, reword it to avoid being accused of plagiarism, cite my sources, and give it to whomever wanted…
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classes by my Junior year of high school, ever since I was in seventh grade at Crispus Attucks; neighbors of IUPUI. For the reason that Crispus Attucks High School challenges their students academically, I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into his classroom on the second floor I could already sense my writing…
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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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on your list of interest or not. In my literacy journey I came to the realization that I pretty much enjoyed literacy looking back on the past. As an infant my grandmother watched me while my mother worked. She said it was important for me to be read to as it would help stimulate my brain for when I got older and needed to actually learn my alphabet and to read. That theory…
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Introduction Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) is presenting an issue from a personal perspective. Unlike traditional scholarly writing, SPN tells the personal story. SPN merging together the individual story and research. It provides the reader with deeper understanding on the specific issue and perhaps develop insights towards future research. In this capstone, I am going to use the SPN perspective for sharing my personal journey as a mother to a child diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder…
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