Descriptive Essay On Coming To School

responsibility will lead to my success in and beyond school because it gives me the confidence to succeed, and will lead to a better life for my family and me. Now as to my approach for this paper I am writing this essay according to The Descriptive Essay (2011), "The descriptive essay is a genre of essay that asks the student to describe an object,

My favorite high school English teacher once said, “You have to want to be a better writer. I can’t make you a better writer without at least some effort on your part guys.” The implied lesson in this quote, about writing and effort, is something I remembered throughout high school and coming into college. In English 109H, I wanted to understand how to transition my writing to a meet a college level. Through in-class peer-editing exercises and identifying and improving problems consistently identified

Dear Reader, My writing journey this semester has been a roller coaster. Since the beginning of this course I have improved in so many different areas. When I first began in this class, I didn’t have a clue how to start my essays. I wasn’t very good with being descriptive either. On top of that, revising was something I hated to do. My writing process was very messy and organization was never something I considered when writing a paper. Since taking this class my skills in organization, revision

myself “It’s going to be a long semester.” From there I was a little discouraged about taking Comp I and really didn’t know what to expect. Coming into Comp I one of the things that I looked forward to the most was writing a personal narrative essay because I have always done exceptionally well-writing introductions and setting the scene. In my first essay for Comp I the Autobiographical Narrative simply

made as a writer in class FYW 100, taught by Professor Birnbaum. Coming out of high school from one of the most prestigious, well-known schools in the nation, gave me an ambiguous amount of certainty to receiving an A in her class. Before beginning my journey in college, Jesuit, which was a college preparatory high school, gave mandatory four-year English courses to every student. With that being said, there was no doubt of me coming into freshman year of college with high confidence in my English

Coming into English 1301-590 I thought nothing of it. I was not sure what I was expecting out of it, or what was expected of me. However, I have gained more knowledge from the course than I predicted. I was also challenged more than I thought I would be. I am glad that I have taken English, especially my freshman year. I am able to use all of my new writing strategies beyond this semester because my writing has improved after defeating a few writing challenges. I have developed and improved numerous

something and understand exactly what is happening without even having to pay attention in class. It baffles me how it happens. How can one person understand how to do something without paying attention to the instructor? I was told to write a descriptive essay. So I have decided to write about how much I dislike writing papers without a prompt or something to help guide my thoughts. Now that I am done rambling about this paper, here goes nothing. Everyone can write things differently. I write better

Past three weeks of July in summer school, I have tried my best to improve my skills and have seen my weak spots as it was coming, while writing my assignments. At the beginning of this course, I was struggling in many components that needed improvement in descriptive writing, summarizing, reading comprehension, and that resulted not succeed 2 tries of the grade 10 literacy test. Along the way of this course, I have seen a pattern where I see myself improving. After three weeks of this course has

THE CONTEXT ESSAY Written response to a prompt- a statement about the theme which you are required to “break open” in your response. Theme – “rites of passage” Example of a prompt: “Rites of passage presents obstacles which must be overcome” The context essay can take three forms: Expository Persuasive Imaginary THE PROMPT The prompt or stimulus is what must be addressed in relation to the texts you have explored. Sometimes there may be an image as well as text Discussion of the prompt

Ever since I could remember, my favorite class as fluctuated from year to year until I reached high school. In elementary school, I dreaded science class because coming up with a topic for the science project was frustrating. When I was younger, I enjoyed language arts class primarily for the grammar lessons and discussion lectures on books, but in high school, keeping up with the readings were overwhelming. For instance, one time it took me one hour to read five pages of Harper Lee’s To Kill a