Analysis Of 'Junior's Battle For Hope'

In my English 1010 class, I have learned to do a number of things through writing essays. I have written a Literacy Narrative, a Discourse Community Analysis, and a Writing Research essay. Firstly, I have learned to identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing. The purpose of the literacy narrative was to help me understand myself better as a writer (Jones 1). My teacher was the intended audience of the narrative. The genre of the narrative was non-fiction by cause of it being about my experience as a writer. The context of writing made my writing more interesting and more effective. Knowing those elements helps you to compose writing that is more effective due to you needing to know what you need to write about and who is receiving your writing. I displayed these skills by going into detail about my experiences with reading and writing through my life. As shown in the following sentence from my literacy narrative I shared how fun and exciting it was when my second-grade class received the opportunity to write a book, A Book of Future Astronauts, “Everyone in the class was truly excited to be writing our own book,” (Writing is Good).

I did not have a firm writing philosophy before this semester, but I to some degree I understood the importance writing can have on a situation. Now I understand that writing has two outcomes: gaining support or losing support. When writing an essay it is best if the writing is as specific as possible. This way the audience is hopefully not left with a confused opinion about the topic. Since the beginning of the semester I have put a conscious effort to change my writing style. Instead of the box format that is learned in high school I try to use a more graceful approach while still being organized. Also, I evaluate the credibility of a source before I use the information to support my thesis and understand the roles of using ethos,

Initially my writing lacked structure and a controlling purpose which caused my ideas to be incoherent and hard for the reader to understand. These difficulties could be attributed to the fact that I am an art student plagued with the disorganization and non-verbal method of an artist’s brain. Being this way, interpreting and conveying my thoughts accurately and eloquently into the assigned writings was fairly tough. However, during the course of English 101 I was able to identify my weaknesses through the aid of writing communities such as peer review sessions and conferences with my professor. With the help from these resources and the writing process I learned to better organize my essays and maintain a controlling purpose in order to help my audience

I was taught the traditional five paragraph essay was the correct way to go. Again my world was opened up and new ideas came hammering in. I observed how my writing and thinking was loathingly filled with flaws, as my work was torn apart right in front of me. This particular course worked so much in my favor because I was open to changing my style. As an example in my first inventive writing lies a faulty pronoun and antecedent, “It seems fair to claim everyone has their own meandering process,” in my next essay a similar mistake is made, “Someone can have straight A’s for life, but they will never be able to tell who they are,” but in my next two pieces of writing no pronoun and antecedent disagreements can be found. The criticism, critiques, and my own willingness all helped me develop a better style of

This semester, I learnt many writing skills and tried different type of essays. I wrote three type of essay, Formal Academic Critique, Causal Analysis and Argument Research. We started with practicing the technique to summarize and paraphrase the article. Then we did research practice based on “Stand on your Ground”. Through this practice, I learnt how to narrow down my topic, by combing the main topic, viewpoint and focus aera. This skill is very useful, as it is easier to structure essay in this way.

My writing processes nowadays have changed thank you to my English 100 level class at Arizona Western College, I feel more confident with my writing style. At the beginning of the class I was very confused with the writing process and the steps to make an essay. I had a difficult time developing an outline and putting together my ideas, so I was not able to write an essay with a good structure. In addition, my grammar was not the best, and some of my sentences were incomplete. During the class period I learned about grammar, how to write complete sentences, how to brainstorm and the importance of an outline. It has become easier for me to organize my ideas in order to develop a well-structured essay. An essay should contain a topic, one thesis, body paragraphs that support the thesis, and a conclusion. The thesis will tell the reader what is the writer purpose of the essay, the body paragraphs support the thesis and the topic sentences of each one. Least but not last, I learned the importance of a peer review, this process was very helpful in the class because I was able to receive constructive feedback from my classmates, and I was able to improve my papers with the suggestions that my classmates gave me on my drafts.

As the school year comes to an end, I find myself looking back and trying to remember, who I was as a student, at the beginning of 7th grade. Nine months ago, I was a 7th grader who didn’t know much about writing essay’s or essay structure. I wasn’t prepared for the challenges were thrown at me, throughout the school year. For example, at the beginning of the year, I knew very little about thesis statements, essay structure and I lacked the patience to proofread and revise my work. Now, after struggling through this year, I have learned how to properly write an essay and I plan to continue expanding my literary devices and vocabulary, as I continue to the 8th grade.

Throughout my four years as a student at Marian High School, I have discovered that the English Department has been key to shaping my skills now and for my future endeavors. The courses seemed to alternate their focus between the fundamentals of writing a well-structured essay and how to effectively fill said essays with quality content. My first two years of English courses focused on the basics of each, essay-crafting and content, while my last two dove below the surface in each category. These courses have helped me discern that my future career lies within Communications—a (major) that requires precision of language and empathetic, convincing key points and supporting evidence. Each of these classes re-introduced and expounded upon concepts I have been taught since middle school. They have helped me to

During this class, the challenge of writing and reading many essays have definitely improve my writing. There are so many details that need to be considered when crafting a paper. The grammar, neatness, relevance of the content, and the paper formatting are key aspects of the quality of writing. In the essay it was fairly simple to describe my surroundings, the sound, smell and general structure. When I started thinking of all the things I remembered from my experience in the ocean, I was able to make a gigantic list of details that I wanted to include in my essay, and I had to do some editing in order to fit the project guidelines. I wanted to convey how powerful and moving that experience was for me. I also wanted it to have a lot of vivid

My first essay, “Positive mind, Positive life”, had countless errors within it. I quickly learned I needed to break out of the typical five paragraph essay style of writing. Throughout high school, my typical style was a simple five paragraph essay and to just state all the facts then turn in the paper. The problem with my past essays is they did not include enough details, the papers just stated the facts for each paragraph. In the literacy Narrative essay I wrote at the beginning of the semester, I did not end my conclusion correctly. There was not a smooth transition to finish the idea of what my paper was about. I wrongfully included “The point of all of this is not just to point out that I had a good day at school, it’s about how changing your thinking can change everything” (“Positive Mind, Positive Life,” 3). By including that statement I came out and explained what my essay was about rather than explaining with details what the meaning actually was. By stating what I was writing about it did not follow the guidelines of a personal narrative and the reader was left with being told what they were reading rather than deciphering it

Over the course of the English 1B class, my eyes opened to new techniques and to consider new ways to improve my writing. Throughout this course, my class was assigned four essays all of which asking different questions. Some of the essay were more difficult than another because it required more work and research; however, writing these essays helped me to grow as a better writer. During these essay writing process, I was able to grab a sense of what is and what is not essential when writing an essay and to remember to avoid diverging from the essay topic itself.

I’ve been writing essays and reading books ever since I could remember. Starting out, I didn’t exactly like English class as a whole subject. I was always more interested in math, science, and history. English was always a boring subject to me. As I grew older and older and got to experience much more English classes I’ve found myself digging deeper and deeper to find better books to read and more interesting essay subjects to write about. As an English student, I’ve discovered how much my thoughts on essays has changed, what types of books I enjoy reading, and what my strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to English.

Writing a personal essay is, well… personal. The first of the major assignments for my English 121 class was a personal essay. Having been out of school for many years, this first attempt at college level writing has been somewhat intimidating. Verbally sharing my thoughts has never been a problem however, employing the written word has always been more challenging. Reflecting on the experience of revising the original personal essay reveals growth in a basics understanding of essay format, better defined critical thinking, and focused exploration of self.

Before this class began, I had wanted to improve many aspects of my writing. I wished to increase the variety of my sentence structures, strengthen my conclusion paragraphs, and to avoid constantly repeating my thesis in my paper multiple times. I failed to include in my initial reflection how I felt that my reading analysis and comprehension skills didn’t feel as strong as they had once before, so that was an additional contribution to my low confidence regarding my writing skills. Beforehand, I had taken writing 121 in high school with high hopes of genuinely improving my writing- only to be disappointed by the way the class went about “improving the smaller details that make up the entirety of an essay.” After that experience, I had low expectations for this course. I am relieved to say that my expectations were exceeded. This course’s classes consisted of sharpening comprehensive reading and analyzation skills every time we met, which is extremely useful when writing essays that rely on tieing back to assigned readings. Right off the bat I began feeling more confident because of the repetitive sharpening of those skills. Later in the course, more towards the end, we revisited the importance of word choices, sentence structures, etc. Although these are introduced to students at a young age, the importance of these components can be easily overlooked when focus is emphasized on other things, such as vocabulary or

Prior to writing this essay, I did a deep and through decipher of the course outcomes and the rubric for an A paper. Now looking at what was expected in those objectives was a little overwhelming to be quite frank. I knew that I wanted to fulfill those duties and that the only way to do so would be for me to step up my writing game in which I did. As a result, I got the grade that I wanted, but more importantly the orchestration of my essay was strong. “Individuality” was an essay about how I journeyed through High School by being my true self, while my peers did not. This essay showcased a vital point in a narrative essay being the content; And I made sure to imbed loads of information to fulfil that factor. My structure was also a strong asset in this essay. Everything flowed well and was not confusing at the slightest. With that being said, my essay “Individuality” was the ideal representation of this English course pushing me. Compared to essays from my previous courses, they cannot hold a candle to “Individuality.” All the effort in formulating an essay of this nature was by me scanning the vigorous writing intentions for this course.