English Composition : Valuable Tools

Composition 1, also known as English 101 or FYC (First Year Composition) is an entry-level course taken by a majority of college students to introduce them to college-level reading and writing. FYC is a prerequisite course at many colleges and universities and therefore must be taken before students can enter into courses specific to their major. Though FYC serves as a bridge to college-level reading and writing many students and even some compositionists (those who teach writing in a college or university) do not see the relevancy of the course and instead view FYC as a course with very little applicability within the majors and future careers of college students. Others, including Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, believe FYC is a crucial prerequisite course that does teach skills crucial to the futures and lives of college students. In her essay, Composition as a Write of Passage, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran first, speaks to the purpose and overall goals of an FYC course before explaining how the skills learned in FYC can actually be applied to the majors and future careers of college students.  From the very beginning of her article, Singh-Corcoran establishes a strong foundation from which she can reach her main audience, but, she fails to support her main points in the best possible way by a very sparse use of non-anecdotal or personal experience based evidence.

I immensely struggled when writing. Taking my scrambled thoughts and uncoordinated analysis and converting it into clean and understandable words on a page was arduous. I could not express my thoughts in proper academic format. I understood the importance of writing to every subject. It was essential that I learn to condense my ideas and feeling into coherent written word. After much debate, I decided that the best way to improve my writing skills was to take an advanced English course.

To start off, I would like to say that I am interesting in taking AP English Literature and Composition for a variety of reasons. I believe it would be a great class to get me ready for collage, which would be the main reason. I love to read and I want to become better at analyzing my reading and learn strategies to get better at that skill. I want to continue to grow in the areas of analyzing literature and to transcend in that area of expertise. Also, not to mention, it would look good on collage applications. Lastly, I know that there is a lot of reading in the class and I want to explore more novels and read more of the olden classics.

Coming from CP World Voices to Honors English II pushed me to work hard as a result of my fear of falling behind. However, the jump made me grow as a writer; my strength in analyzing literary texts grew and so did my love for the literary works we read. Because this class pushed me to become a more focused and serious writer I have experienced many pivotal moments that caused me to become more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. Looking back on the work we have covered this year I have concluded that my pivotal moments were a series of realizations that came in intervals. Close to the beginning of the year, I discovered that I enjoyed understanding and analyzing literary works to the smallest detail. To successfully do so I focused on my

As the Fall 2017 term comes to end, I look back on what I have accomplished in this class. English 102 – Composition II was one of the most challenging and toughest class I have taken at UW-Stout, but feel as though it has helped me to improve my writing skills. Even before the semester started the feeling of anxiety had taken over, as writing has never been my strongest skill, but stayed positive and confident I would be successful. Much to my surprise, my instructor, Michael Critchfield quickly addressed that this class would not be easy and amazingly changed my views of writing throughout the entire semester.

Gordon B. Hinckley’s words ring true through my mind as I enter this school year: “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” Entering into this AP Language and Composition class marks the beginning of my challenging school year. However, I will treat my assignments as I do my garden. Carefully, I will water the seeds of information that have been planted in my brain. As I remove the aspects of writing and reading that prove to be unbeneficial to me, it will be as if I am picking weeds. Desiring for my writing skills to blossom, I will work to be the best student I can be.

Within English 219, we have already learned a vital set of writing skills, that will allow for the improvement of essays, and summaries that must be written for future assessments. Some of these skills that would be relevant for achieving general writing improvement could be ideas such as thesis development, structuring and planning, or more specific examples when actually fleshing out the essay such as elements of grammar and style. Thesis development which is crucial so that ideas can be fully explained and related back to a point which can be interpreted as an overarching theme for the entire paper, and allows the reader to interpret the topic of not only the essay but of each paragraph. Taking a step back we looked in class at the subject

ENGL 101 – English Composition I: Please, pay close attention to your instructor’s report. There are some missing assignments, and also you need to work on your class participation. Let me know anything I can do to help you to

This reflection piece is based on my two months in English Composition Two class. It is a semester that has felt like a roller coaster ride because I had many up and down moments regarding my physical health, which impacted negatively on my academic life. In the following paragraphs, I intend to reflect on the eight weeks of school that I experienced at Concordia College in Alabama. I will also write about my assignments that were given to me in the eight weeks of school and the new words that I learnt when we did a vocabulary exercise in class.

Scholarly written work is a pivotal a piece of your prosperity as a college understudy, numerous teachers require the sort of components that ar encased inside instructive composition. A logical circumstance will be the main issue that decides the key components inside any bit of composing. It is likewise the easiest approach to call attention to varieties in things in instructive composition, A logical circumstance needs a few segments this incorporates a legitimately formed proposal, sufficient exploration sources, painstakingly made references and careful checks for literary theft through application, rundown and summarizing. Figuring out how to compose scholastically demonstrates simply} handle over simply the learning you examined it's

Every student knows that feeling when your English teacher tells you write an essay, and your mind just blanks. This continues to spiral downwards until the due date arrives, leaving you sobbing quietly at your blank document. This problem has been plaguing people for years; however, I have found the perfect solution, which I ask you to consider as you read this.

Wow! It’s hard to believe we are at the end of this eight week Composition II course. And as I look back at what I’ve learned and my participation as a student my rating would be a four. Part of the reason I was to able earn this assessment, started when planning my course schedule, I intentionally choose to take this class by itself. Knowing my weakness in writing, I dreaded the idea of putting words to paper. But I was excited because this has always been something that I sought to improve. And in these eight weeks I feel I have achieved that.

This semester of Composition II, I was given even more opportunities to practice my writing and develop my own sense of style while incorporating correct grammar. Before this year, I didn’t know how to use sense imagery or dialogue well in my writing, and I hardly knew anything about grammar rules. But I have learned more about grammar in the past two semesters than I have in all my years of English classes.

MindEdge eLearning modules have been one of the best instruments for me in this class, increasing my knowledge of composition and the writing process. Each separate module provided me with the knowledge missing from my lost years of study. For example, Module one, sections 1.03-1.20 provided the much-needed review of the different forms of essays, to the writing process itself (MindEdge). For me, this was a critical step in my return to writing. Because I had forgotten all the components to each essay, from the reflective essay to the persuasive essay. A review was necessary for me to

As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this