Websters dictionary defines an essay as "a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject. I define an essay as a way to express your ideas, thoughts and a way of being creative. Having almost no writing skills this would be my feelings of an essay.
Being faced with the task of writing and essay brings me back to my younger years and the feelings of near panic when asked to do a writing assignment.Would I choose this class as an elective? Probably not! As a prerequisite I am not so set in my ways as to think or feel that I can't benefit from this class.
Some people say that I have the gift for gab. In small groups I am confident and reassured when speaking. I know when you are speaking people have the choice whether to listen or not as apposed writing you get a hundred percent of your readers attention. When it comes to putting it on paper though I don't really understand my fear when typically I do not have an audience.
When learning of this assignment I turned to my mother for her ideas. Writing is something that comes very natural for her. She can write a whole story on one tiny idea. Writing gives her freedom to address and pull on thoughts where as speaking makes her stumble. This asset is obviously something I didn't get from her.
Writing has never been my thing. I can write a letter to my family and friends without a problem.I can even write a wonderful Resume'.But, When it comes to writing a story for a class assigment I totally freeze.
What I am hoping to learn from this class is useful techniques to help me lesson my stress of wrting. Possibly making writing more enjoyable for me. As I become a nurse I am going to be writing alot of reports for patients and I do not want it to be a hardship for me. Hopefully this class will even help me extend my vocabulary in my writing.
The purpose of writing this essay is to organize what we learned in writing class. ... Concise is to deliver your messages in a short time, which means to save reader's valuable time. ... What kind of information am I giving? What is the purpose of writing this essay? ... Diction means the vocabulary that you are using after you had given thoughts about it, so it is the best choice that you know. ...
I have never done any sort of writing for business prior to unit 3 so this was all a new learning experience for me. ... Again, this was difficult for me since I have never written a paper like this before. ... It is what provides your case for seeking that job position in the first case. ... However, with bringing new people in, means letting loyal workers go, which is why I absolutely despise writing refusal letters or having anything to do with them. ... Business writing is key to our success in this economy....
What Does America Mean To Me? When asked the question," What does America mean to me?"... Why would this question be asked knowing that each student writing the essay would answer in the same manner. ... I had to choose between what I have felt for most of my eighteen years and what would please the reader. ... For these reasons I say America means everything that it has revealed itself to be, America means greed, hatred, fear, and an uncontrollable want for power. ...
The engagement I had on writing really had to focus on what kind of engagement the teacher gave me. ... On my good days, which are very rare, I kind of enjoy writing and don't want to stop no matter what. ... When she says "writing life" she means that she pays close attention to the world around her. ... I'm more like Stafford when it comes to writing, once I get into action, I don't let anything stop me. ... I too have a routine when it comes to writing, it may not be the best of routines but it works for me. ...
MY PROCESS OF WRITING A PAPER ASSIGNMENT Understanding the subject of an assignment, and a good process through which it is accomplished, is a crucial step to writing a good paper. ... A computer, for example is an indispensable means to obtaining a broad range of information on the internet. ... Reading thoroughly on the subject is vital to me. ... By reviewing what I have done, I am able to improve weak points that otherwise would be missed. ... Transition words, such as "therefore" or "however," sometimes helps me a lot. ...
What I have found particularly frustrating is the ultimate inadequacy, however well-written, of such writing. ... Harold Bloom has said that Kafka did everything possible to evade interpretation, which only means that what most demands interpretation in Kafka's writing is its deliberate evasion of interpretation. ... However, he despaired that metaphorical language could ever express what he was trying to express; he felt that the correct action for writing was a "raising up" rather than a "carrying over." ... What Kafka tried to do in his writing was to explode metaphor, to touch its lim...
I was embarrassed and and wondered just what my future would hold for me without my degree. ... These goals gave me tunnel vision, making me focus on the final grade. ... What if we never developed a written language? ... Most students, including myself, believe that it is means not to plagiarize. ... This means that I depend on my heart to make decisions for me. ...
In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... He then goes on with more structural devices early on in the writing using repetition. ... It is important for Alexander to make this distinction so that when he alludes to "Lil Kim or Muddy Waters (368) he can show what it means to be the pinnacle of "cool," in contrast to other African Americans such as Oprah or Iverson. ... If you mix the misconceptions of what Black means and portrayed by the predominately white ...
That means that history is basically a written account of an event that affects something. ... He told me that if you study the past you will have a better future. I have yet to fully understand what he had told me but I sort of get the idea. ... We owe it to them to understand what they went through and how they lived. ... Writing this essay really made me think that there is a lot of history in the world. ...