Graduation Speech : A Student

6. By changing word order and not using the same words, you can summarize your points in the essay.

Throughout the course of the class, I learned many things to help me write a paper by using different

In my persuasive essay on “The Star” I have a few things I need to work on to improve my writing. As well as a few things I did well throughout my essay. In order to better myself as a writer I would need to work on my run-on sentences, learn how to not be repetitive, and learn how to properly punctuate my sentences. I had a few run-on sentences and I was very repetitive throughout my essay. Although I had a few mistakes I improved my writing a lot on this particular essay. This time I did very well on my thesis statement. My thesis statement supported my entire essay and I had strong topic sentences that supported my thesis statement. I did not leave my readers clueless to what my argument was. Overall my paper was good I just had a good amount

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

While attending writing class, I learned about the 4 steps in writing, bases for revising, organizing, and connecting specific information, and I also learned about the different types of essays such as descriptive, narrative, process, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I have been a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College for 1 semester, and over the course of my enrollment I have grown and learned more that I knew prior to attending this writing course. Participating in this writing class has taught me so much more than stuff about literature and language, it has taught me another way of expressing myself. I have learned here how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find the answers to the things that I don 't know. Most importantly I have learned how important technique, outlines and organization are. My goal in this paper is to inform writers about how my writing skills have improved.

If exceptional grades and numerous excellence awards are to indicate anything, I have succeeded academically thus far. However, such achievements are only possible because of my work ethic and determination. I pride myself on submitting my best work, pitting myself against my past performances. I remember my tenth grade English class; I was writing essays every week. I took every critique from my teacher and considered it for the next piece. Experience I gained from that class carried over into eleventh grade, where I achieved the highest English grade I have ever made. Even now, I look back at my older essays to help me write, so I know what works and what to avoid. Perseverance through school and desire to improve have carried me well, even through activities outside of my education.

C. Preview of Main Points: (How many main points will you have and what exactly are they?) Today I am going to inform you about….

share some thoughts on my progress in English101. During one of her lectures, Professor Sophia Vilceus once said, “midway through, you will feel less motivated but do not let that discourage you” (Vilceus). Those words became evident whenever an essay, such as, cause and effect or compare and contrast became daunting to complete. Additionally, through her inspiration, I was able to stay encouraged, not only in class but also with learning some things about myself as a writer.

The Second Essay allowed to use my Critical Approaches and Self-Critique. Third essay required me to interpret or evaluate a text. In the fourth essay, it brought everything together that I learned during the entire semester all of the skills together helped me to. rite MLA style papers with citations and references, and this has helped me learn how to cite quotations properly and how to use quotations in the text of my writing. I used to make mistakes on these papers, and professors would always correct my citations, but now, I have mastered MLA style, and I know I can master other citation styles as well. This will help me in just about every class I have in school, as many classes use this common form of citation, so I have learned a skill that will be valuable for many years. Second, I have learned a lot about another country that I did not know about or understand before. We read "Two Kinds “and "Two Kinds” by Amy Tan,, and I became very interested in china after reading this, I believe she a very influential author. The book tells the

As of November 16, 2017 my teacher Mr. Thoma has given us an assignment that allows us to ponder how much we have improved in the last few months, and has given us an opportunity to reflect about our improvement in writing and write about goals we may have in order to continue improving. He expects us to keep formal writing always and expects that we will continue improving as the year goes on.

In order for her to become an even better student, Sydney’s goal in English this year is to comprehend the text given to her, so she can get higher grades on tests and quizzes. Her writing goal is to work on her transitions, to make her sentences and paragraphs flow into one successful piece.

Remember, subpoints are subordinated and directly related to the main points. Additionally, remember the main points should all support your thesis and, although they are related, each one should stand by itself.  Main point #1: short sentence to support your thesis, for example, a statement of a need for action.  Sub point # 1.1: support your main point 1. A description of the need (signs, symptoms, and effects).  Sub point # 1.2: support your main point 1. Examples and testimony.  Sub point # 1.3: support your main point 1. Importance of need (causes, extent of problem, facts/statistics, expert testimony, and who is affected).  Main point #2: short sentence presenting a solution that satisfies the need and/or solves the problem.  Sub point # 2.1: support your main point 2. Description of the solution.  Sub point # 2.2: support your main point 2. How the solution satisfies the need.  Sub point # 2.3: support your main point 2. How the solution can be implemented.  Sub point # 2.4: support your main point 2. Plan of action.  Sub point 2.4.1: Step #1 of plan  Sub point 2.4.2: Step #2 of

I have worked on my over use of passive sentence structures and use of expletives. I can ensure that I have progressed my personal literacy skills and have continued to deliver on my qualities which will enhance my ability as an educator. By gaining a better understanding of diverse texts, I can now apply this knowledge to different context and have greater awareness of the role language

One skill I greatly improved upon was my ability to gather and organize information. On my first paper, Arguing a Position (AaP), I did very poorly on this. The paper was arguing that the mass surveillance by the United States government had gone too far and was suppressing individuals’ freedoms. I spent a long time researching for this essay. When I went to sort through it all I had found that I had gathered way too much information and I had not organized it in any useful way. This put me behind the rest of the class in the writing process. I was still typing down to the very last day, while everyone else was editing, which hurt the quality of my essay. I did, however, learn from these mistakes. In my second essay, Proposing a Solution (PaS), I proposed a solution to the algae problem in Western Lake Erie. I feel I did much better at researching for this paper. I collected less information and only kept the information that I knew would be useful in writing the essay. This saved time which allowed me to put more effort into the quality of the writing. For this reason my PaS essay was much better than my AaP. This improvement shows that I have improved enough to earn credit for this course.

Now that I have completed the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth course Crafting the Essay, I feel I have tremendously grown as a writer. Even after submitting the first assignment, I looked back at a position paper I wrote for school that I received an A+ on, yet I saw several flaws I wished I had changed.