Essay

as I walk away from my English 102 class I carry the understanding of writing a college level essay, undertaking research and completing a research and argument paper properly, and knowledge to prepare me for my other classes and profession. The fear of writing a college level essay always crept in the back of my mind. Formatting, wording, and my professor’s expectations concerned me. The first essay I wrote for English 102 class, “The…

Introspective Essay: The History of My Writing I remember, when I was first beginning to write, learning how to write my name. I was blessed with beautiful penmanship; something I still cherish, to this day. I started writing, more and more, just to look at the words. This experience provided me with a positive outlook on writing. The attractiveness of my writing has motivated me through the long hours of preparing to write simple and complex papers in high school, through the completion of my…

areas that I learned about myself as a writer that I need to work on. It will take practice to become a quality writer that will include planning, revising, and feedback to learn more about myself as a learning writer. When I know I have to write an essay the first thing I always want to do it just write without really knowing how it is going…

Forms and Content, Take 2: Noël Carroll, “The Specificity Thesis” Noël Carroll’s essay, “The Specificity Thesis”, works to address the flaws in the idea that each art form has one subject matter that it alone is best suited to represent and express. Early on in the essay Carroll explains how the theories on art changed from pre-Enlightenment, during which theorists often analyzed different art forms based on the form of their subject, and how during the eighteenth century art theorists shifted…

work hard for it, it isn 't just going to come your way easily. I 'm usually very hard working now but some days I wasn 't that much. A time when I was hard working was when we had to write an essay about one of the choices that were given and it was supposed to be 3-4 paragraphs. I chose to write an essay on what I would do in case of a zombie apocalypse, I worked hard on it, I did a lot of research and managed to write 4…

When I first started the Composition One class I was not sure how it was going to be. I was super nervous because I had not had an English class in over a year. Even when I did have an English class we were not graded on a tough grading scale. I knew I had some issues with my grammar, and I was ready to work on it. I also did not know all of the ways that an author could manipulate me, and quickly realized that I am easily manipulated. I read articles all the time without ever thinking how…

Unbroken is more than just something you pick up and read because you’re bored. This story is something so different than the stories I’ve read before, and not just because it was based on a true story. Whilst I was reading this story, I started to realize some things that I haven’t realized before. What Louis Zamperini went through during his lifetime is something not many people would be able to survive through, his story was hard to read in a very emotional sense in which I’ve never really…

After writing several high school essays, I always seem to get the comment from a teacher, “improve handwriting,” or “hard to read.” I therefore create this to explain the plight of being a member of ten percent of the world’s population, the left-handed. Handwriting alone is not the only thing that plagues the left-handed; it is the righty-controlled society that is forced upon them. From scissors, to spiral notebooks and whiteboards, lefties have been left out. I was born into a family…

draft of my third essay for College English 101. While I fulfill the prompt, I do not convincingly analyze the author's rhetorical strategies. I still have a lot of weak verbs and adjectives roaming around my essay. I need to find a variation for the word "writing" also. Also the analysis needs work and the page limit has been exceeded. Overall, so far this essay feels chopped and put together and needs polishing. Stage of Development: This is the fourth draft of my rhetoric essay. I’ve gotten…

A messy bedroom, Arctic Monkeys as background music, and an adolescent begrudgingly writing an essay for their twelfth grade English class is the current scene. This is the perspective of a senior; an absolutely glamorous time in life. It's an alarming thought that my high school career has brought me to this point as I search my mind for the correct words to advise you and my fingers tap away at my small keyboard. I'm supposed to give advice and guidance to the future graduates of our beloved…