The essay I wrote my freshman year of high school about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet shaped how I write my essays. ... My best writing was done when I was not writing essays for English class, but when I was writing about topics I enjoyed. ... With nothing more then a Junior High Education, Civil Rights activist Malcolm X was set back from fully expressing his thoughts because he did not know the words to say. ... His lack of literacy sponsorship when he was a young man was replaced by his demand for a self-taught education as a grown man. This education helped him to become one...

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Clayton State's Emphasis At Clayton State, English 1101 is designed to increase students' ability to construct academic written essays. The course offers instruction in writing processes, collaborative writing strategies, methods of organization, research skills, discourse conventions of Standard Written English, rhetorical strategies, computer-based writing, and the production of expository academic essays. ... Program Outcomes General Education Outcome Students will write effective expository and argumentative essays that consider purpose and audience. ... Related Objectives ...

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This essay will explore the meaning of abstract and technical language, discuss the importance for students to be able to express meanings in abstract and technical ways and propose approaches to increase teachers' effectiveness in helping students use abstract language in their academic writing. The Meaning of Abstract and Technical Language According to a definition from the City University of New York, "abstract language refers to things that are intangible, that is, which are perceived not through the senses but by the mind, such as truth, God, education, vice, transportation, poetr...

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