Alexis Molina
Ms. Denninger
AP Lang & Comp/UCONN ECE English 1010
13 January, 2017
Midyear writing reflection
An academic essay is a profound writing of ideas that usually requires you to make an argument on a subject or matter, in an academic essay you must make clear of what you are trying to take a position on. You must establish and gain authority to engage readers to keep them intact with your essay. Critical skills must be implied during an academic essay in order to demonstrate your position. Textual evidence is also a key in order to persuade readers that your statement is knowledgeable and correct; it must include an introduction with full detail, a body, and a conclusion in order to follow the structural aspects of an academic essay.
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As he says intellectual writing work not only starts but closes in acknowledging other perspectives work, “Intellectual work both starts and ends in acknowledging the strengths of other perspectives”. He uniquely regards academic writing to be a set of strategies, which intellectuals adopt in working with texts. Then, Harris holds that in writing, people should embrace the roots of every stem of academic writing from both work of others and the texts and thus defines scholarly writing as a form of Rewriting besides building upon the thoughts as well as ideas of prior others. He further observes and points out that the bottom line of academic writing (work he refers as Rewriting) is not only reading but comprehending and synthesizing other authors’ work, and turning into one’s own language. Just as Harris observes, there are necessary questions that an academic writer should ask him/herself before using any other author’s academic work to write their own. Thus an academic writer is a reader. Harris goes ahead to point out that the most dominating question to a reader should be understanding the project for the author’s text. “A project is usually something far more complex than a main idea, since it refers not to a single concept but to a plan of work, to a set of ideas and questions that a writer ‘throws forward’ (Harris, p.71). The idea of a project thus raises questions of intent.” It comes out clear that the bottom line to academic writing is the understanding of the project and texts of the reference
One of the tips that has really helped me the when writing and improving my writing is, write your thoughts before organizing them. My mind flows when I am writing a paper or thinking about the topic and I sometimes forget to write everything down, so before I write a paper I sit down and really think about my topic, then I just write words and phrases that come to mind so that when I start my paper I have a general idea about what I want to write.
Ever since I was young, English has always been one my least favorite subjects throughout school because I did not enjoying writing. Writing always frustrated me because it seemed so time consuming. But as I grew older I came to the realization that writing papers are not as hard as we set it out to be. If you formulate a method to how you will complete the paper, and follow through with it, it makes the entire process so much easier. For example, for all the students who procrastinate with their assignments until the day before it is due. Think about all the time and effort you have to put fourth to complete an entire paper in one day. Imagine how much less effort it would take to simply start working on the assignment at least four days before the required due date. You would only have to spend an hour or two a day to complete the entire essay. All you have to do is develop a plan as to what you want to accomplish each day and a writing strategy to following while writing. Throughout my English courses I have assembled my own writing strategies, and the first step to writing a good essay is pre-writing.
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Many Americans have trouble writing. They believe they are good at writing only because they don't'know anybetter. They believe e that their grammer and punctuation is adaquite or even Perfect, until they have to write a paper that is graded at a college level. I had this experience on a recent promotional exam. I believed that I was a good writer and didn't study much for this part of the exam. I refuse to let this happen to me again. I will become the writer that I ,foolishly, believed I was by learning the parts of a sentence, meeting with a tutor and using this site.
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In my opinion, I feel like the development part of my essay meet more closely the expectations for exemplary writing as described in the rubric because my essay provides concrete examples and descriptions, convincing creative supportive information and also it also addressed the content requirements for the essay. In addition, I also believe my essay is well organized due to the fact I used the method taught in the class about having support in each paragraph. For example, the introduction, the 3 details I will be talking about in my essay and lastly, the conclusion.
Literature, is a very educational required curriculum in school it can also be known as a Genre or classes like this one for example English. I know reading and writing are composed of similar qualities. Therefore, one cannot work without the other. These two reading and writing fall back on one another because without reading, writing would be very difficult. I feel that being literal is important for everyday life to communicate, to socialize (etc.) because people everywhere communicate with one another or like to read. I realized whether if it’s a text on a smartphone or if your just reading instructions for a new telescope. Reading and writing are everywhere we look, I encourage everyone to read because it really helps expand your language!
We have been told by many of our High School English teachers that being able to formulate the perfect essay will make transitioning into the college academic conversation much less challenging. But did they ever teach us how to write such a paper? Well, there was the five-paragraph essay only rule among all of your teachers, and if it did not contain facts or opinions it was unacceptable. That is where one of the many differences between high school English and college English lies. Within college academic writing students will have to know how to incorporate certified outside sources into their papers, be able to keep the reader interested on the topic, and have the ability to read academically.
The introduction of advanced analysis and literature concepts into curriculum during high school was a defining moment for my academia experience. Writing to convey an analysis from a comprehensive text became one of my strongest interests and was what helped me determine what kind of scholar I was and the kind that I wanted to be. Over time I have had it made known to me the never-ending possibilities within the world of analysis and have simultaneously worked through the often times difficult intricacies of the literature process. For this particular season of my initial writing experiences within college, I once again have been blessed with a fresh perspective on how to perform analysis. Throughout the course of the semester I have been offered many chances to improve and received them to my advantage in the way I best knew how. But the process of taking the work you produce and fitting it into the “new and improved” category regarding writing quality and intention can set up the interpretations and understandings of it to become entangled with one another. The following excerpt of my work was written during a premature point in my understanding of how characters use rhetoric as both a concept and tool for conversation and accurately reveals my misinterpretation of the artistry of communication.
organization of the essay provided some merits but the overall essay unity was not achieved.