The essays chosen for the portfolio were included based on which essays depicted the greatest amount of growth since the beginning of the year. This growth includes improvements in my control of language, the focus throughout the essay, and the quality of analysis. Therefore, the ineffective essays showcase repetitive language, an excess of informalities, a lack of cohesive argument, and analysis that is explained poorly in order to contrast more strikingly with the effective essays, which contain a more sophisticated grasp on word choice and sentence structure, as well as a clear argument that provides proper analysis.
The synthesis essay was chosen due to the analysis that accompanies the sources as opposed to only summarizing the sources. Where other synthesis essays I wrote had a lack of analysis and focused more on repeating what the sources said in an attempt to support my argument. However, the effective synthesis essay first starts out using statistics from Source F, which stated that “of those who have graduated from a four year college, 74% report that college helped them learn, and 69% report that college helped them grow as a person” and then the essay follows up with analysis about how colleges allow people to grow by allowing them freedom they would not have otherwise had,
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Whereas other argument essays failed to provide specific evidence to properly support my argument, this essay cited multiple events in history, including the American Revolution and sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, and it also cited specific people that were erased from history for being LGBT+, including Bayard Rustin and Marsha P. Johnson. It was this usage of evidence that made me chose this argument essay over the other
This assignment asked students to construct a summary and to synthesize a response to the various points of view included in the readings. I selected the chapter that addressed the value of a college education. Writing effective and analytical summaries is always a challenge, but as I worked on the assignment I could see how this process is really important to developing an argument in objective terms. In other words, deciding what I thought about a topic and then finding research to support my ideas is not an effective way to complete good research. Instead, good research consists of looking a variety of opinions and then drawing conclusions about what arguments were most compelling. Moreover, using APA style forced me to look closely at the timeliness of the different essays and to consider how opinions shift over time.
he short anecdote above accurately represents the situation of many students across the globe. Throughout the last decade, technology had exploded in a way so immensely that nothing and nobody can stop it. Not even educators. This is why taking the easy way out of assignments has become such a frequently used method by students everywhere. It is evident that students of this generation have become complacent in a “short-cut” society.
Source A supports the claim and is reliable. Source A is intended to convey a balanced perspective on China’s healthcare system in the early 1950s. From Source A, we can infer that healthcare reforms were wide in scope and extent, targeting prostitution, opium use, diseases spread by vermin, and provided “basic healthcare and preventive services” to all, but yielded unintentional drawbacks in killing sparrows. This is reliable since it corroborates with my contextual knowledge that Mao’s healthcare reforms were indeed numerous and wide-ranging in the 1950s. It did close brothels, opium dens, and launch health campaigns to eliminate diseases.
Our topic is whether or not TPS students have the resources and support they need to succeed, and what we can do to help. We selected this topic because we were hoping to learn more about what students have access to in TPS schools. We want to know if they have access to textbooks, tutors, electronics, etc. and determine if access to these resources affects their learning ability or the outcome of a student’s education. We selected this topic because, coming from an independent/private school, we do not know what it's like for TPS students to not necessarily have access to the same materials and help we do. If we find out that TPS students don’t have access to the resources, we want to find a way to make sure they have equal opportunities to learn
The first time this theme is revealed in the poem “Blackberry-Picking” is while the author describes the first blackberry ripens. He recalls, “You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet. ”(Source A.) The blackberries in this poem represent ones childhood. He compares to the innocence of being a child to eating blackberries for the first time after they ripen.
Apps like Instagram can be a fun apps that lets you texts, facetime, and make lives with your friends, but most of the time it is not always as it seems. Teens are getting more and more obsessed with apps like, Instagram, Snapchat, Oovoo, Twitter, and Facebook. 94% of the teens all over the world use apps everyday. Teenagers spend about 9-10 hours everyday on Social media, so in a week they spend about 45 hours just on Instagram, and Snapchat. Social media is not a great idea because of, depression (have a lower self of esteem), cyberbullying (cause to commit suicide), and accepting strangers (kidnapper, pervert).
Does the outline contain an effective thesis? What is it and does it fit a topic from our assignment? How could it be improved? A. The outline has an effective thesis and it’s about how soccer is not very popular in America, like other countries and we have no standout players.
Earlier studies have also shown that listening to pleasant music increases the theta frequencies (Sarkamoet al., 2010), and an increase in the frontal midline (Fm) theta power was observed (Sammler et al., 2007). The results showed significant increase in theta component energy at frontal electrode locations F3, F4, F7 and F8 when listening to liked music compared to being at silence (without music). In evidence to this the theta component energy was increased and significantly different only while listening to like music when compared to dislike music at all the measured frontal electrode locations F3, F4, F7 and F8.. These increases in the theta component indicate that the liked music was subjectively pleasing, which supports the findings
This assignment was somewhat challenging for me, however I felt as though this type of essay was the easiest for me to write because all of the information was right in front of me. These types of essays require you to synthesis sources and then write an essay about them. This means that the writer must look at a certain number of sources and determine the relationships that they have with the prompt and with each other. After they do this they must write a well-developed essay about those relationships. Some of my strengths in terms of the synthesis essay include being able to quickly read through the sources, determine the main points of my essay based on the sources, and being able incorporate the sources into my writing
Revising this essay helped me improve my critical thinking skills because I had to critique the relationships among language and merge the two authors ideas together. In the third body paragraph of my essay, for example, I wrote “Edmundson and Freire’s theories for why the professors are causing their education systems to become corrupt differ in that either the professors care too much or too little for how the students will view them” (19). This sentence is an example of me merging the two authors’ essays together by reformatting the essay. Revising this essay has helped me realize the importance of writing multiple drafts, because it has helped me realize the content that I need to edit and revise. If I could continue to revise my synthesis essay, I would compare and contrast Edmundson and Freire’s education systems more and provide more solutions to how they could have improved their
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Derek Galipeau 1st Period Synthesis Essay Theme: People are often treated a certain way because of what they are and not who they are. Judgement based on appearances is something that we deal with every day of our lives. People are treated differently bases on their looks and appearances. This is shown in the short stories: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, “Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies”, and “Apollo”. People often do not take the time to get to know someone and assume things about them.
From what I gathered from reading The Allyn & Bacon Guide To Writing, section on the Analysis and Synthesis Essay. This essay purpose is to formulate your own argument on a subject and support it using evidence from different reliable sources. Also, you are approaching the subject from a new perspective. You are mentioning points that the authors from the previous sources did not, and you are thinking about it differently from every possible aspect. A synthesis essay consists of four sections: the introduction and summary of the sources, the analytical section, the synthesis section, and the concluding section.
The essay is about what Americans go through as they buy more and more items that are new. The author tells us of all the thought, and time that goes into buying new items. Then there is the fact that all of those items will depreciate when you get them home. This is the start of the never ending cycle. It begins with the new item you bought.
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