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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

I was excited to learn a new language but initially Spanish was very difficult for me to grasp. After a certain point during my freshman year of high school, I could not keep up because I was struggling with the basics. This made it hard to focus on my other subjects. I reached a

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.

Throughout my high school and middle school years, I have had the opportunity to study the language of Spanish in a classroom setting. I walked into my first class assuming that it would be quite easy to learn a new language, however my presumptions were quickly erased. During my first encounter with the language, I felt overwhelmed by the process and frustrated with my slow progression. I found it extremely difficult to articulate my words and formulate sentences in Spanish. Whether it was simply trying to pronounce common household items or conversing with my middle school teacher Señora Arbuckle, I was utterly confused. Yet, it was through my struggles in this class that I began to realize the difficulty in understanding and speaking

Adjemian (1976) confirms that the explanation of these grammatical rules that will explain the features of the learner’s grammar should be the primary goal of linguistic research.

A Heinz Ketchup advertisement shows sliced tomatoes stacked haphazardly to form the general shape of a bottle of ketchup. Towards the bottom of the frame, there is a crisp text that reads, “No one grows ketchup like Heinz.” Through the analyzation of this advertisement, it becomes apparent that it is effective and interesting in many different aspects, including form, content and style.

I would watch Dora the Explorer episodes and try to learn as many words and numbers as I could, but I never got a substantial education on a second language. Now that I am a highschooler I aspire to be able to speak in the languages of others around the world. From personal experience of taking multiple Spanish classes, I know it can be difficult to learn a new language later in life and wish I had started to learn it earlier as a child. The younger a learner is when they begin to be taught a new language, the easier it is for them to understand and remember. This is simply because the younger a child is, the better they are at mimicking new sounds and pronunciation, making it easier to learn new words. (Catherine Ford. ‘Children should start learning languages at three,’ The Telegraph. 10 October

Learning a new language always brings with it many issues, but mainly when this one it is not very usual in your environment. I am from the Dominican Republic, a country located in the Caribbean which is visited by a big amount of tourist the whole year. The English Language is very useful due to it allows the people to communicate with all the visitors in all the tourist areas and through all the country, however I live in a non tourist area and a new language learning it's not easy to perform.

Through grading my papers, Mrs. Bingham was able to identify the areas in which I needed to improve my writing. At the forefront of these improvements was my incorrect use of pronoun antecedent agreement. In my papers, the antecedent would not match the pronoun it was referring to, thus leaving my sentences without clear meaning. Along with incorrect pronoun antecedent agreement, I discovered that I repeated ideas and opinions in my papers. This restating of the same information, not only resulted in a low grade, but also pointed to my inability to find more information to discuss. Although my English III class brought to my attention the weaker points of my writing, I was ultimately able to grow from this constructive criticism into a better

Although there are a high number of competitors in this industry, many of these competitors advertise their product to create brand awareness, sales, and reputation. French’s Ketchup main competitors are Heinz Ketchup, President’s Choice, and Simply Natural Organic Ketchup within Canada. These competing brands are constantly seeking ways to gain brand recognition from consumers through the use of advertisements.

A good sentence is a complete thought with a subject and a verb. When one or the other is missing, then it interferes with the reader’s ability to grasp what you are saying. We call this a fragment, and we must add extra words or combine with another portion of a sentence to complete it. Look at these fragments and see what is missing. Fragment

There are many ways to construct a sentence. I know that yo need to have a mound, a verb and it must be a complete thought. If I were being graded at a fith grade level, this would be a easy way to ace the test, unfortunately, I am graded to a college level. I am except to move past the simplicity of grade school writing. I need to learn how to properly use a comma, colon, or semicolon, to make my sent few more complex and flow more like adult conversation and not a children's book. Once I have a good grasp on sentence stri tire and proper puncuation then I will move on to working on assignments with a tutor.

In due time, when we were comfortable with the analyzation process, we started our first analytical essay. Straightaway, I had my doubts. We would write about a particular pamphlet that we read, and depending on how well we do on the analytical part, is how well of a score we would get. Thus being my first year in a semi difficult class, Zollman took it easy on the class. We learned straight away the cautions of certain words, as in, I, you, me, us, we, any first person pronouns. This would soon shape my entire writing life.

“Less than 1 percent of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that they studied in a U.S. classroom,” states Amelia Friedman in The Atlantic. “That’s noteworthy considering that in 2008 almost all high schools in the country – 93 percent – offered foreign languages” (Friedman). This has resulted in, as Brad Marshall, a teaching fellow of languages and literatures, notes, "[the] widespread belief that adults will inevitably have problems and will certainly never become fluent, while children are supposed to pick up languages with ease". However, study after study has shown the procedure of language learning of the infants. The essential elements of learning a language lie in your ears and the way you process into the language. Although there is a widespread myth in learning a language – children acquire a language much easier than adults do – the innate ability of adults’ language acquisition are basically as same as that of children’s.

People always say practice makes perfect and that cannot be any truer when it comes to writing. The more times I write an essay, the better I get at them. Even from the very beginning of my English career, I have always had to work on improving from my mistakes. Throughout the semester, I have realized that I have a problem with pronoun-antecedent agreements. In the past, I was not aware of pronoun-antecedent agreement problems in my papers. I had never been taught that if I have a singular noun I need to use he or she to make the noun and pronoun agree. Now, after writing essays over and over, I can pick out my mistakes and fix them so that my pronoun and antecedent agree with each other. Over the course of the semester, I have improved greatly throughout my three papers on my problems with pronoun-antecedent agreement.