possible failure is becoming clear. One may wonder why the sudden change. Why is he losing? Before understanding Bernie’s failure, one must understand why past presidents like Obama won. Yes, what they are fighting for matters, but what are the other factors? When Obama was running both times, his wife was right by his side campaigning for him to win the position of President of the United States. Did you know Bernie Sanders even has a wife? How often does she appear? Is Bernie’s failure coming from
Argumentative essay presents a point of view about something and explains the reasons in order to win readers' agreement. It is built around a specific statement (or main premise) that is debatable within the field in which students are studying. In other words, at the center of an argumentative essay is a statement with which readers may disagree. The argumentative essay will need to support that statement in a manner that convinces the readers of its truth. It mainly strives to convince the
The Academic Expository Essay The academic expository essay is a genre of essay that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, talk about the idea, and present an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished through: 1. Cause and effect 2. Comparison and contrast 3. Argumentation and various other genres. Please note: Academic essays of cause and effect, comparison and contrast and argumentation are commonly assigned as
Identity” Jocelyn Letourneau’s is a history professor that wrote the essay “Reconstructing the Canadian Identity”. The author argues that if one compares the Harper government's idea of conservatism against Trudeau’s idea of multiculturalism, the reader can infer that multiculturalism is failing and Canada should go back to its monarch roots. By bringing back symbols of monarchy, a new Canadian perspective would form. Letourneau’s essay is structured in a very well and composed matter. His arguments
tough time making my sentences flow together easily, my essays sounded choppy. Also, it was obvious when I was stretching my sentences to make an essay the required length; I no longer need to do that, now I must work on shortening my essays. This portfolio contains assignments completed in this composition class. These will all show evidence of improved writing from this first draft to the final copy. Throughout the portfolio, four essays and three inferior writing assignments will be found. Each
drafting my argumentative paper on sloths in the rainforest for this reflective essay. I am choosing this topic and this particular essay because my writing process was a key component to the ‘C’ I made on the project and how my failure in this particular area lead me to this grade. Looking back, I realized that the grade I received is a perfect reflection of the effort I put into the writing process. I believe that I had the power to make an A if I would have slowed down and completed the essay the right
good enough for this paper I will explore further. So my ONLY goal this semester was to get ‘A’ so that I can increase my GPA, and that is the most important thing to me right now. So not getting an ‘A’ will make me hate this class, label myself a failure, and cause me to bang my head against the wall until I forget everything. I came into this class with a predetermined notion on how to write papers. What I had taught in high school was that you had an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. And
procrastination and has often resulted in low essay grades; to be better myself as a writer I plan to start on assignments early, research the topic, and expand my genre of texts. Acknowledging transgressions of your writing will help a writer become more successful or better because he has recognized his weakness and now know what to fix. Success is the result of perfection, dedication, and hard work from bad experiences or failures. In my past, I have scored low on essay/writing assignments, which made my
assignment should have been. Dr. Meredith has provided both the grading rubric for argumentative essays as well as his feedback for this assignment. The grading rubric lists two primary categories and two secondary categories. One of the primary categories is “Comprehension.” Under this category it is quite lucidly articulated that the essay must refer to the assigned reading. According to the rubric, a failure to interact with the assigned reading will result in an “F” for that category. Finally
being that we did not do any kind of grammar work to better our essays. We were expected to know how to write specific papers such as: analytical, persuasive, informative, narrative, and argumentative, with correct grammar following the type of essay without anyone teaching us those types of essays. This left me unable to correctly do my assignments on specific papers. Also, all we were given was a short prompt to read and then write an essay on it every three days. I never got to read interesting books