My Philosophy Of Writing Analysis

Furthermore, according to Duncan Carter’s article, Five Myths About Writing, “Years of well-intentioned English teachers have responded to students’ first drafts as if they were supposed to have been perfect. Combined with a pedagogy which suggests that revision is a form of punishment, it is not hard to see where students get the idea that good writers don’t have to revise” (Carter, 82). Growing up, high school teachers make it seem as if revising and editing your paper is the worst thing ever. Any student who worked long and hard on their assignment and turned it in to get revised, would hate to receive a paper back with nothing but red marks and errors written all over them. This initially gave people the mindset of forgetting about editing their work if all it did was tear them down and point out their mistakes.

For this week’s essay, instead of writing an explicit analysis, this assignment felt more like a personal reflection, an approach that seemed more appropriate for Orsi’s work, History and Presence. Out of all the books read this semester, I will admit, I read this one with the most caution and restraint. The truth of the matter is I am unable to separate myself from the stories he tells (or at least pretend that I am). Too often while reading this book did the flashbacks of my own upbringing and current life implant themselves on the page, in one instance causing me to tear up. This essay will indeed be analytic, no doubt, however, it will be very personal as well, quite possibly a trial to further lay down the foundation of the scholarship of presence.

These essays show me how much I lack when it comes to descriptive writing. I often use simple vague words to get my point across quicker rather than taking the time to write about the details about the situation or the people or whatever I may be writing about.

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

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

Until I started this rhetorical analysis paper I wasn’t aware that the things I display in my room say things about me. I never thought about how they make me look as a person or what my audience would assume about me based on these items. When I started analyzing, all these questions started popping up. I was finally able to step back and see myself how others might see me. When asked by my teacher to pick 3 items that describe myself from my bedroom I didn’t have any trouble picking them out. When it came down to it, I 'd always choose the same 3 items: A wall of family pictures, a Pride flag and a mirror with notes and pictures all over it.

My “best” piece is my rhetorical analysis written about a high school senior’s controversial yearbook picture. I feel that this essay in particular is the best one I wrote because it demonstrates both my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. This essay was one of the more difficult ones to write. At the beginning of the semester we focused on primarily on personal writing, “showing not telling” and the use of colorful language. For this essay, however, we focused on the academic knowledge, logic and criticism aspects of writing. Admittedly so, I disliked writing this essay. Writing this essay was a new experience for me because I had never focused on the negative aspects of someone else’s work. Re-reading my essay multiple times after receiving feedback from you made me question myself.

There are many rhetorical situations to think about when developing a piece of writing. Purpose is how a writer expresses themself. It is important to identify the main purpose of what you are writing about because the purpose helps with identifying the genre, audience and the way to write. While developing a piece of writing there are going to be many different purposes. Find the primary purpose by asking yourself why you are writing and what you are writing. The audience is important when it comes to developing a piece of writing because it can affect the way you write. It also affects the type of genre you use. When texting your mom you probably aren’t going to use formal language or correct punctuation because you know that your mom knows

I have wrote many different kind of essay and paper. From a point of view of three person, first person, what you think this person is telling you, to writing how you feel, what changed your life to where do you see yourself in the next 10 years. I enjoyed this writing class and I know my teacher has enjoy my present. The only bad thing I can say is I HATE writing annotated bibliography and anything that have something to do with it,

I am tearing my hair to squeeze every single word from my poor mind to finish this letter. Yet deep in my frontal cortex, there is no part of mechanisms that is designed for writing a self-analyzing letter to my instructors. However, it has been ten weeks I studied in this course, and all my favorite works in these ten weeks are gathering in this tiny portfolio. I have wrote a several rhetorical practices that taught me basic rules of rhetorical essays. I have wrote a rhetorical analysis, which explained both the thesis of the reading and my own arguments against the reading. I finished my last rhetorical project three days ago with telling another interesting story. All these assignments were tiny pieces of my writing style and they built up together to present me a general concept of being a successful writer. I learned that, and I made a number of changes to upgrade my writing skills. At last, I decide to offer you these changes I have made as a start-up story writer in the college.

In “The Importance of Writing Badly”, Ballenger describes a relationship between indoctrination and creativity, despite the differences both are taught to coexist together. Ballenger emphasizes that his students learned from their teachers how to write a certain way, making students believe that they should learn this or their writing won’t meet the high standards. Once Ballenger gave his students permission to let their writing get messy, that is when the words started flowing onto the page. Ballenger realized that forcing the rules of punctuation wasn’t helping the students get better. Creativity can go a long way when writing and so he started teaching his students this new way, knowing that most will benefit from his new rules of free writing.

I love writing and I love biology, and you may not think that these two are in any sort of ways related, but to me, they are. I love writing everything down, making notes from every single observation about the world. Every time I have wrote these notes, I can image the words dancing on a white paper, I can see blue ink marks flowing its way gracefully guided by the pathway of pen. I had never minded until one day my classmate observed that I do strongly press when I write, like I would turn it into braille letters. It’s not because I would like to destroy my pen or waste my ink like they teased. It’s because every word on a white paper has a meaning to me. The obsession with handwritten notes has followed throughout my academic life, since I was the clumsy little girl who crossed out ugly spelling mistakes in my language paper until I’m a nerdy junior who sat and took handwritten notes while my classmates played a solo with their Mac. To me, the words on paper means much more than those on screen, which now seems obsolete. Words in handwritings can move, and they can dance their ways into your heart, and become part of who you are. To me, my handwriting and the words I have jotted down means more than ‘a part’ of my

In this portfolio I have included three essays, my personal belief of my worst, my most improved and then my best. My hardest essay to write would have been the more personal one. I decided to write my first essay on American Sign Language (ASL). I believe this to be one of my weakest essays due to not have writing many personal ones. Usually when people think of essays they think of book reports or

This first semester at the University of Akron has flown by. I learned many new writing concepts that helped me become a better writer. English composition was a required class that I had to take in order to get my degree. Although this class was required I still wanted to take this class to become more knowledgeable about writing. Coming into English Composition I was worried about all of the papers and the workload that I would have to complete. I knew that I was going to have to write a lot more than I previously had in highschool, but I was unsure of just how much. The works that I decided to include in my portfolio comprise of my Literacy Narrative, Image Analysis Paper, and essay titled Mayas Hardships based on Maya’s experiences in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I selected these works because I felt that they are the ones that require the most improvement to them. The papers i've chosen show how far I’ve came In English Composition.

In the short story, “My Parents’ Bedroom,’ written by Uwem Akpan, the most defining role of literacy that sticks out is symbolism. The images that are engraved into readers brains are ones that have deeper meanings than what we initially see on the surface. The story is told through the eyes of a little girl named, Monique, who is only nine years old. It is told in first person point of view so that the reader feels as if he/she is actually experiencing the situations first hand. The symbolism in the story, “My Parents; Bedroom,” illustrates the day to day struggle of living in Africa during the genocide. Symbolism is