Just like breathing oxygen is essential for humans, writing proficiently is significant for students and everyone as well. People who are in college or in any kind of institution are all required to be effective writers. At every stage of my life, I have been taught about writing. In pre- school, I begin to learn writing and when I went to elementary school, I advanced my learning and took it to the next level. I began to write essays in the last few year of elementary school; and when I was promoted…
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I will not be able to respond to you. Catalog Description: A directed writing course, which continues the process of learning to read and critically engage various texts. Students write papers that summarize, critique, and synthesize sources, leading to researched and…
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would open up this essay, but this isn’t just any essay. This is a reflective essay that summarizes my work as a sophomore writer. As a writer, I can state my writing skills have drastically improved by being able to creating a hook and transitioning through paragraphs. This year I’ve demonstrated my thesis statements are directly to the point and they have organizational flow. In papers such as “Scarface’s Influence” and “The Power of Nonviolence Protesting” all show how my thesis statements are…
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Professor. Baldassano Reflective Essay Reflective Essay I have been Montgomery College student for two semesters, and throughout the semesters I have learned crucial aspects of reading, writing, and listening. I took noncredit English courses during those semesters. However, I knew where exactly I was headed, which was to get to EN 101. Finally I made it to EN 101 and decided to take it over the summer. During this semester, I learned various writing techniques and ways of siting my sources. I believe…
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obstacles of my second semester, here at Virginia State University. As I look back over the semester, this is the first English’s class a line from a song stayed constantly in my mind, which was “We fall down but, we get back up again.” My experience from my English 110 class was hard but, at the end “I am a better writer.” Even at times when I experienced someone having the ability to steal my confidence, I had to get back up again. As I leave those experiences behind, where I struggle with my head hanging…
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The submission deadline of your final ePortfolio is [DATE] at 12:00 pm, high noon. To submit your ePortfolio please make it publicly viewable. (We will talk about how to enable the publicly viewable option.) I. Its Contents A. The Basics Required Artifacts: Reflective Introduction (58 pages, approx. 1500 words minimum) Historical Conversations Project, Graded Version (with or without final grade and comments) Advocacy Project, Graded Version While the required elements will give a basic shape to your ePortfolio…
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school my essays were about summarizing a chapter from a book or writing a short story. There was no set length it had to be and there were not any specifics to focus on such as to focus on a strong introduction or to focus on being organized when writing. The essays that I wrote in high school were just for a quick grade or to help out our grade. I did not really have that much experience in writing essays. In the past semester I have grown more as a writer than I have in the past years. My essays…
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“Reflective Essay” Writing an essay has always been challenging for me. Since I have been out of high school for ten years, one of my biggest fears of enrolling in college was writing papers. I was not going to let that stop me, because I want a college education. After taking the placement test summer of 2016 I had to take DRE-097 and DRE-098 which helped me become a better writer. Mrs. Ferard was my instructor for both classes and I learned from her. While taking those courses, I had to write…
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originally introduced to the article by Lawrence Otis Graham on the first week of class. The article is titled “I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong.” This article was very significant because it gave me a foundation for the topics covered in my class, Writing, Literacy, and Discourse and helped me become a self-reflective writer. Grahams article is about his life, his family and a racist incident that involved his son. He and his wife raise…
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Reflective Essay on Writing 101 University of Maryland University College October 7, 2014 I chose to participate in WRTG 101 not only because it’s a core requirement towards my degree plan, but to enhance my writing skills. Over the past few months, with the help of my Professor and classmates, I’ve honed my writing skills watching them improve from being decent to something better. Overall I expect to learn and refresh writing skills and identity what skills I need to improve by the end of…
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