Examples Of Pronoun-Antecedent

Pronoun usage is important in analyzing the rhetorical persuasiveness of "Shitty First Drafts." A notable moment is when Lamott writes, "They do not type a few stiff warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like huskies across the snow" (70). Automatically, Lamott uses "they" instead of I to get the direct connection with her audience. If she would have written "they," perhaps Lamott wouldn't have come across as warm and affable as she does. The word "they" gives us, her readers, the sense that she is with us (not just writing about her own isolated case)—with all normal writers who do not sit down and write like Shakespeare on a first try. She is truly just trying to explain how it is not bad, in fact it's good, to make a "shitty first draft." Too often people get caught up by thinking that

Many students have struggled with essays for their English class. They have difficulties due to many issues, the least of which are poor writing skills. Each person has their own area of writing which gives them the most trouble. If this lack of skill is not addressed then a student can be certain that his or her grade will fall. Personally, I have the most difficulty with conclusions, transitions, and comma usage. To address these issues I conducted research and found three effective sources; The Little seagull Handbook, Smart-words.org, and grammar.ccc.commnet.edu. These three sources assisted me in improving each of my three skills, which I struggle with.

The art of writing is a complex and difficult process. Proper writing requires careful planning, revision, and proofreading. Throughout the past semester, the quality of my writing has evolved significantly. At first, I struggled with the separation of different types of paragraphs, and I found writing them laborious. Constant practice, however, has eliminated many of my original difficulties, and helped to inspire confidence in my skills. As a collegiate writer, my strength lies in my clear understanding of the fundamentals of writing, while my primary weakness is proofreading my own work.

After this semester of English 102, at Bristol Community College I feel that I have gained the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in many ways. I don’t just look at grammatical error, but instead I look for ways to make my sentences more effective and concise. Nevertheless, I hope that this strategy will continue to help me improve my writing even further on in the future.

This is the second required general core course in college­level writing. Observing the conventions of

Two weeks ago, I laid down on my bed with a paper in tow while staring blankly into the white ceiling. I had an assignment for the track team’s end of the year party. I was not the captain, nor was I a key member of the team. I was not as fast as most of the varsity members. Even in the long jump, my best event, I didn’t make the top ten in states. English was not my best subject, and I especially despised writing

Autobiographical texts are not simple retellings of experiences, but the result of a complex process of shaping and refining ideas and events that take place in someone’s life. The texts The Damage Done and The Happiest Refugee by Warren Fellows and Anh Do respectively, follow two different stories of survival and chance. One, a tale of the dealings of drug trafficking, and the other a description of a brave and valiant escape from post-war Vietnam. Through use of structure and language devices, my views of these two men and their surroundings have been shaped and manipulated; for Fellows, the view that he is simply an innocent victim of chance, and for Do, that he is a family man, shaped by significant events in his early life. Language conventions

My thesis statement, it is the words that people say that gives you strength when you are at your crossroad. And today I stand, I run, and I walk for those who cannot. But let me pause for my essay because I will be derelant In my duties and negligent in task if I didn’t say to my sister in the audience who last year got a stroke and somehow got through all of that and now she’s reaping heaven on her employees. Big sister you are my warrior. Give hear a hand, I might not have a ride home today. Now, to the body of the essay. When I came to Cambridge... You all know how essays go. We are going to get to that. When I came to Cambridge College I was nervous, but they accept me for who I was, a 24 year old military veteran.

Although the topic of this assignment refers to your individual learning style, avoid the use of first person tone (words such as, "I, we, our") in your essay.

During the first grade Alexie was being bullied, but during this bullying session. He had finally had enough. “But the little warrior in me roared to life that day and knocked Frenchy to the ground, held his head against the snow, and punched him so hard that my knuckles and the snow made symmetrical bruises on his face.” Here Alexies use the rhetorical strategies the act to portray his experience with Frenchy, the bully. Then in ninth grade year, he uses a profound apostrophe, he starts off telling the reader about how he is at his high school dance. And that ‘s just after that he played in a basketball game inside of a humid and dry gymnasium. While at the dance he passed out during a slow song and his white friends began to revive him. A teacher then ask them what he had been drinking saying, “they start real young”. Alexie then ends his paragraph pronouncing, “ Sharing dark skin doesn’t necessarily make two men brothers.” This was a pivotal point in Alexies life with both stories. When Alexie realized this I believe it put him on a path where he could be his own person without having to worry about how others would classify him

Foxxy’s grandpa helped her learn about the Cherokee people by telling her stories. My grandpa liked to tell me stories about his childhood when I was a little girl. He told me when he was a boy his family did not have much money, so he had to get a job as a paper boy to help buy groceries. He explained how he would throw the paper at the front door from his bicycle. He taught me that I have to work for the things in life that I want and to not expect a handout. Also, from the essay I learned that Foxxy’s grandpa did not have to go out on the prairie with her because his stories helped her identify with her culture. For example, Foxxy stated that her grandpa “was a cowboy. He was a chief. He was a Cherokee. Grandpa was a wise man” (par. 14). I believe this showed that Foxxy was impacted by her grandpa because she described him as a very important man. He helped her identify her culture by telling her stories about the wild prairie deer. My grandpa is a person that I look up to and respect because he started out with nothing. He taught me values and morals. Also, when Foxxy got stuck in the bog, her grandpa did not yell or belittle her. Instead her grandpa very gracefully helped her out. This showed that her grandpa allowed her to explore her identity and culture. I can relate to this because my grandpa is very kind and patient just like Foxxy’s

During the semester, I learned to focus on my strengths and work on my weaknesses. I could use my organization, paragraph structure, and transition skills to keep high quality writing. This will be helpful to assure an above average grade when I take English 102 during the summer. On the other hand, although students often try to avoid their weaknesses, I see them as useful. Knowing my weaknesses gives me the opportunity to work on them until they become strengths. For example, as I mentioned before, organization is presently my biggest strength. However, at the beginning of the course, it wasn’t. I had to practice and work on it until it became natural and

The Writing II course has been my most interesting and rewarding class. Even though I could not complete the class, the course is not over for me. Before taking the class, I acknowledge I have much room to grow in writing, but I did not know where to start. Writing has always been unclear to me in many areas, and this class helped me to unblemished my understanding. In this class, I have acknowledged my weakest areas in writing, but my most astonished ambiguity was determiner noun and vocabulary. I did not know I was using determiner incorrectly and vocabulary span is so important in academic writing. The English Simplied book is an easy and an excellent learning tool that was used in this course. It covers all areas in determiners.

I have been writing since I have been in Middle School. I have realized that by college it was easier for me to write down my thoughts in order for me to remember what I have said or done. Writing out my thoughts gives me a sense of recollection, knowledge, and pacification that gets me through my day. I pictured writing to be as simple as jotting down a few sentences, but as I got farther in school I realized that there is more to it than just writing sentences. English has been my most difficult subject I have ever endured, but I have somehow been managing to make excellent grades and achieving all requirements. First in the essay, I will discuss my experiences in the English life that I’ve taken so far up until college. The second part will list my struggles in creating a thesis, a work cited, and properly citing my sources used in the papers.

Writing is not just as simple as putting words down on a document or a piece of paper, it is a process. Within this intricate process are steps that involve more than just writing, such as critical thinking, planning, and editing. Using these steps has not only helped me when planning an essay but also when composing one. Throughout this course, I have managed to improve many skills and gain a lot of strengths, but I still possess some weaknesses. Overall, I believe my strengths have definitely outgrown these weaknesses and have led to a better, more high-quality writing process which leads to improved essays.