classes in highschool and I think that the class structure combined with the excellent teachers helped me prepare for college english classes. In the course, going to the library and learning about research databases helped me most as a writer. In high school we were given access to some of the same databases, but were only presented with login information and told we should use it in our papers. All of us were confused by the complexity and ended up just using sources found by a Google search. In
of my writings that I have completed over the course of this semester. Overall in this entire course I have learned a great deal of material that has pushed me to become a better writer. From my past courses, I have noticed that I am not the strongest writer but I do try my best. With Professor Knox’s tough grading system, he has given me drive to bshow my potiential as a writer. I feel as if my knowledge has increased a significant amount on the following topics/concepts and I support each claim
Project: Economic Research Objective Each student is to select research question related to money and banking and develop a well written paper that provides insight into the topic. The goal is to obtain a better understanding of the topic, while relating the identified topic or concept with real world scenarios. Guidelines For this project, select one of the following research questions below. If you want to select a topic that does not appear in the list below, please contact me for approval. 1
incarcerated? In the year of 1996 the 250th person to be freed by DNA testing since the year of 1992. Those 250 “ex-convicts” served a total of 3160 years between them all. Which still leaves the conspicuous question… How many innocent people are still incarcerated? In today’s society, there are many false convictions to all sex, gender. The Innocence Project was designed to assist wrongly convicted individuals. This paper attempts to identify how many cases with organization adopts per year and determine
Writing about my problems or the conflicts I have endorsed really helps me open my eyes to see that my problems are not that overwhelming. They might feel like they are at the moment, but in a bigger perspective they are nothing. I was introduced to this writing a very young age. My parents divorce when I was a child. I when from being this highly active kid to keeping to him self and not caring. My 3rd grade teach sat me down and told me to write what I was feeling and why I was feeling this way and how
impact on me is because we were able to develop both reading and writing in a variety of ways, whether it was doing the nightly textbook reading, writing 4 essays in 90 minutes in what is known as a test in the class, the 15 page minimum research paper due at the end of the year, or even the book review done on a book of the student’s choice. All of these different aspects were able to help myself improve my skills as both a reader and writer. Each of these different tasks
Drafting a final paper allows you to put together all the research you have conducted into one form and analyze it. Until I took this class, I honestly did not know half of the element involved in a proper research paper. I only knew the very basic components and not the fine details. I have learned that the fine details are the most important. Those details are what separates your paper from good to being great. This being my first real type of research paper, I found having to complete all
General research area 2 What the authors were interested in discovering / proving 2 The approach they took 2 Whether the research and the paper are valid / useful 2 Article/Paper Review 4 1. What is the title and what does the title tell you about the paper? 4 2. Who is the paper written by and do they seem credible to you? 4 3. Does it have a helpful abstract? Give reasons for your answer 4 4. What did the author(s) do in their research, what research approach and what method(s) did they use? 4 5. Do
of rules for every thing we write. This is one downfall for high school English. We have to order our papers in a specific sequence while writing about a topic that is chosen for us. This English composition class changed all of that. We were able to write about anything that related to the given type of essay, which greatly improved our ability to fully immerse ourselves into every paper. This greatly affected my writing thoughts about writing; they changed from hating to write for school to
do a throwback to my high school days in English class. The main paper I remember about high school, and many other students do, is the senior paper. The same paper that needed to be done in order to graduate. My senior paper was an example of an argumentative essay. It had to be a certain amount of pages long, so the normal 5 paragraph essays we were used to did not help. What did help was turning in the draft a week before the paper was due. That way we would get feedback from the teacher and fix