Writing my first Three English Essays. First English, as a second language (ESL) class at MCTC was new experience for me. ESL is a course designed for people whose English is not their first Language. Although I took English classes before at a different adult schools and went to English school back in Kenya, I have never written an academic essay. When I registered my first writing class at MCTC in 2011, the instructor said, we are going to write three academic essays throughout the course and each essay should consist of at least four pages. The struggle I went through writing the first three essays. The first essay topic I choose to write about was “Coming to America”. The second essay was about “comparing American values and Assumptions against Somali values and assumptions”. The third was about” the cause and the effect of cellphone use”. The first essay was the most difficult to write. Each country and culture is different; whenever i travel to a new country I see some similarities and more differences. First semester at MCTC my second essays, I was asked to write comparison about the American Values and Assumptions to my Somali Values and Assumptions. So I made a research about the American Values and Assumptions and I found a good article that was written by (Gary Althen) he was a foreign student adviser at University of Iowa for many years. He also wrote many books. After my research I wrote about how American parents start teaching their
English class has never been my strong suite. I always had to work twice as hard in English then I did in any other class. Writing paper always had me stressed and overwhelmed, I felt discouraged in my work. l never seemed to be able to get to the level I wanted to. I would try my hardest and paid attention in class, but when it came to writing the paper none of that seemed to help. I think that my experience in English Composition 1 has helped gain and grow in some areas, but I don’t think that it highlights a well-written college essay. Some elements that I worked to improving was introduction paragraphs, tone, style, and thesis statements.
English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural
Everyone present at the September 11th meeting of the Metcalfe County Board of Education shared in a moment of silence in honor of Harold Chambers, who passed away on September 8th. He was a beloved member of the Metcalfe County School System for many years and will be missed.
Did you ever know that every country has different cultural values and norms that may cause misunderstanding among cultures around the globe? Of course, I didn’t really know that till I migrated from my country to the USA. A long time ago, I believed that the world was filled with homogenous societies which are based upon one culture only and that culture must be my own culture which I must follow as the ethnocentric standard to all other nations in the world. But later, I had experienced living in multi cultural communities and different continents around the globe, such as Africa and Asia, where getting involved in other people’s lives is very common. As a result of my experience, I have realized that American cultural values have less
A freshman college level English Composition course aims to improve students' abilities with writing, critical thinking, mechanics and usage, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary. By studying English 101 at Luzerne County Community College, I will work diligently to improve in all of these aspects. My main focus is to develop skills specifically to create clear and concise thesis statements, strong and persuasive essays with cajolement, and to develop different perspectives on narratives and other essays. These writing skills may also improve my critical thinking and reading skills.
Many students have struggled with essays for their English class. They have difficulties due to many issues, the least of which are poor writing skills. Each person has their own area of writing which gives them the most trouble. If this lack of skill is not addressed then a student can be certain that his or her grade will fall. Personally, I have the most difficulty with conclusions, transitions, and comma usage. To address these issues I conducted research and found three effective sources; The Little seagull Handbook, Smart-words.org, and grammar.ccc.commnet.edu. These three sources assisted me in improving each of my three skills, which I struggle with.
Although there are many similarities and differences between American and Somali cultures, parental expectations is one common thing they share. There is one principle that every parent holds so high, that has had a significant impact on their children’s lives, and that is the essential to attend an undeniably prestigious university. American and Somali parents want that their child to be an accountable person. Also, they both want to see that their child is making wise decisions throughout his/her life. Like every other parent, they want to witness that one day there will be a successful person. However, Somali parents have higher expectations than Americans. My parents are a perfect example of this, they have passed on to me an enormous amount
English classes are very important if you want to pursuit your academic goal, and there are a lot of things that I learned about academic writing in this semester. At first, I thought that it was going to be easy as long as I kept doing my brief assignments on time and showing up in classes. However, I was wrong, English is hard, especially if you are an international student because the methods of writing an essay are different. Though, I decided to take English 1301 because I wanted to be able to write something that would make it easier for a reader to understand, and of course to make me get good grades in other classes assignments. Also, because I didn’t know the difference between writing a rhetorical analysis essay and writing a normal
Writing an essay may seem like a huge obstacle to overcome, but with a plan of attack and a little organization, it can be easily completed. All it takes is seven easy steps.
In the duration of this English class we have read multiple essays. The essays include a short story, “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros whose main idea is that there is not a correlation between age and emotional evolution. “College Pressures” by William Zinsser argues that college students are under excessive stress to plan their future and succeed. The narrative, “Mother Tongue”, by Amy Tan focuses on the variants in the universal English dialect which is based on one’s background. “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexies main purpose is to help readers understand the immense impact racism has on Native Americans. Each story had a different purpose but the common theme the essays shared was an educational setting.
This fall semester in ESL 91has been pretty interesting, and so far successful. The main object of this semester was to improve our essay writing. We were taught various lab techniques that helped us to improve our English writing skills, such as using appropriate verb tense and how to write a research paper with a works cited. Through my work on the research paper I have learned how to write in an academic style, how to find appropriate sources from an academic database, and how to cite my sources. Most of all, I can say that my reading skills have improved because the research for our papers required me to do a lot of critical reading.
I have learned many things throughout the course of the term, including such things as: how to write an essay and how to improve on essays that I have already written, how to locate and composite better research through the use of numerous resources found at the campus library, the internet, and the “Common Sense” textbook, how to cite research, examples, and quotations properly within the contents of my research paper as well as document it accurately according to MLA standards. Through the exploration of the “Subjects and Strategies” textbook, I have learned nine different methods used when writing an effective essay and how the different writing styles affect the overall theme and tone of the essay when used properly. This past
My experience with English has changed drastically from middle school to college. Being in middle school I have really had to do much of a big paper, but as I progressed through college I’ve realized there much more that has to be added. I had always wondered why middle school was so easy but as years went on, I realized that advancing to college there’s a lot more requirements and importance to writing. In middle school, I was young and just starting to really realize what an essay was and after high school I really understood what an essay consists of. No matter how
There is a current social issue that is attacking the United States Military on a molecular level and harming the anatomy of the army organization. As of today, prospective Transgender and military individuals are being thrown against the wall by whether or not they should join the military or should be honorary discharged from service based on the standing they are mental, physically and emotionally unstable. As human society advances through the stages of time we are faced with the underlying issue of the safety of our country and the belief if individuals diagnosed with gender dysmorphia ( a strong feeling of identification with the opposite gender of which you're a biologically born as causing tremendous trauma to a person's mental status) could serve the particular guidelines it takes to serve this country. "The military is expected to train its soldiers in the arts of welfare: to kill, destroy and break our enemies." An individual that is going through the process of gender ( categorization of male or female and does not determine on what you are biologically born with ) transformation based on the president and officials are just a hindrance to the armed forces and are just leeches. Since their mentality does not permit them the ability to protect others since their health is supposedly not at the prime level and are just an extra cost to the budget. This discrimination of transgender individual promotes the ideology that if you do not
Cybercrime or sometimes called computer crime is basically not a newly develop form of fault except for the fact that it has evolved itself over time by including newer and riskier modes of committing the crime often for money or may be accompanied by the most simple way to commit the crime, by theft. Cyber crime has its operations spread in a variety of arenas be it white collar crime, economic crime, telecommunication, intellectual property infringement, etc. information technology is the key player which assures the completion of such a crime.