Reflective Journal Summary I learned a lot using the different techniques for journal writing. Using the different techniques gave me the opportunity to experiment with my own writing. I enjoyed doing the journal entries because it got me out of the habit of the boring "note-taking" mechanism....
The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. When she first moves in to this Hispanic ghetto, she knows nobody and was desperately seeking friendship. Esperanza met two friends who were with her th...
In conjunction with the first reading "Entering the Conversation,"" Graff and Birkenstein demonstrate in detail how to make a perfect summary of what other people said in order to make your own argumentative writing. ... To write a really good summary, a writer must play a "believing game ", which suspends his own belief for a time and put him in the shoes of someone else. Otherwise, a writer might produce a summary with his own unfair presumption instead of what really expressed in the original author's view. ... And again, remember the important rules: good summary means playing the be...
To give more clarity of what I was going to write, I gave a summary of the chapter. What my professor always stresses is the summary of our papers should only be no more of a quarter of the essay, followed by a majority of our response. This was exactly what I did; I provided a summary of the book and parts that interested me. ... I gave a summary of a chapter from the book that supporting why it did not work favorably, then discussed how to avoid those types of mistakes. ...
Cultural Variations in styles of thinking Is it true that people from different cultures "think differently"? it seems clear that students from different cultures often bring different purposes to their thinking and learning. These different purposes produce different results, for example in the...
Logos, Ethos, Pathos Summary What are some of the most important questions any writer has to ask before beginning the writing process? A writer has to determine what the audience will be and what the purpose will be. Then, when they know the answers to these questions, they will be able to decid...
As an academic writer, audience plays a major role in what I do. Every word must be chosen with careful, but confident thought. For this course my main audience is Ms. Brummond. She is the determining factor in what processes in my head onto my paper. I know my audience must not be bi...
Masking with a Masque This article discusses "The Lady of May" with a summary and analysis of its content, as well as a discussion of the outside forces that affected "The Lady of May." The queen is a main staple of this article because the play was written for her, she is a character in the play ...
BRIEF SUMMARY Explain where this piece fits into the overall narrative. ... Clarity Your summary for the first component should be clear and concise, covering the most important events but leaving out details that are not relevant to your selected passage. ...
The essay begins with a brief introduction of Charles Handy's professional background as a former professor from the London Business School. Now, he is an independent writer and educator working for different organizations ranging from business, government, and health. He wrote a book, The Age...
On the list of fun things to do, many students rank writing an essay somewhere between getting a root canal and studying for finals. But why does writing get such a bum rap? Perhaps it is because students frequently get back marked up papers with lower-than-expected grades and, therefore, cring...
"Beliefs About Families" (Summary and Analysis) In "Beliefs About Families" by Mary Pipher tells us that not all families are biological, many of them are "formed" which means some families are forms of extended family, friends, and groups that share common interests. ...
The Importance for IT professionals to possess other (non-technical) skills Information technology professionals within an organization tend to work together in a team environment. Team members within an organization must learn to work together to complete a job. Professionals that make u...
One thing that has always been drilled into my head about my writing is to keep my opinion out of it. This is something that has always been hard for me because I believe that writing is a form of self-expression. If I can't state my own opinion, then how can I express myself? I am also a very opini...
With many problems facing the American society today, people tend to get sidetrack when looking just at the surface of all these "problems", when they should be focusing on the internal problems within our great American nation. One of these problems is the concept of an illiterate society, and the ...
The famous Renaissance author, courtier, and father of deductive reasoning, Sir Francis Bacon, once said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." Sir Bacon could not have been any more correct, especially when speaking of writing. Even in today's society...
Academic Writing: My views and experience In the following essay I will examine my experiences in writing, starting from how I learned to write my first words, furthermore how I wrote my first paper in school. In addition I will concentrate on the changes these papers experienced when I learned a...
Course Description 1101 ENGL 1101 English Composition I (3-0-3) 3 semester credit hours. A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exploration, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. Prerequisites: Learning Support students who are required to take ENGL 0099 and/or READ 0099 must exit the requirement(s) before they can enroll in this course. For all students, a grade of C or better (or K) is required in ENGL 1101 prior to enrollment in ENGL1102. Grades of D in ENGL...
Literature links all lives together across the globe simply through a story. This story is about pain, love, family; it's the idea that people can express themselves though black ink on paper. Growing up, I loved to read. I have read everything from every golden book as a kid to every Mortal Instrum...
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of sixteen she wrote her First novel, The Outsiders. I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. While attending the University of Tulsa, Hinton fell in love...
Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From Outside, In" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reports her own childhood as a little girl of two diverse, but similar languages. One of her mother tongue, "Black English," which she could use with her own community in a warm environment, and the other of the "others," "Standard English," which was used for articulate communication with the public that made her more influential and persuasive, as well as appear to be more educated. As a...
