Carleigh Grupe Professor Schnell English 1301 9 September 2015 Personal Narrative – Rough Draft The lake glistened before me as my mom and I pulled into Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp just outside Twin Lakes Michigan. I had been accepted into the International Youth Symphony Orchestra program where after spending a week at the camp the entire orchestra would be heading off on a six week European Tour to share our musical talents and American culture with another part of the world. I knew traveling to
Personal Narrative rough draft. The Garage It was a beautiful day in early winter 2012, my Family had had a big dinner at my uncle's house, the plan was to go a Blazers game after we had all gotten done eating. I had moved to Tigard oregon with my Mom in summer of 2012 from Connecticut, about six months before all of this had happened. We had no idea where anything was, the only thing we had someone what of idea was my uncle's house and the grocery store, but beyond that we were basically lost all
Personal Narrative Rough Draft Choosing a career is not an easy task. As a child, I never knew what I eventually wanted to grow up to be, but in the back of my mind I would always say a teacher because I come from a long history of teachers in my family. One of my grandpas was a high school math teacher along with coaching the football team. My aunt is an elementary school substitute teacher specializing in special needs students, while my uncle is a high school history teacher. While, my father
your writing. Specifically, Horace’s quote “get distance from [your] work by putting it away for nine years”. (pg 65) A day is enough for me, and I revisit my rough draft either impressed with what I wrote or wanting to burn it in a fire. The advice from Horace is followed up with “after giving yourself and your draft a rest, review the draft by rereading it carefully for meaning”. (pg 65) I’m doing better, but I sometimes don’t catch my random tangents in my writing or conversations until I ask myself
different forms of writing such as a research paper, a narrative, and a persuasive essay. Even so, no year has enhanced my writing skills and prepared me for what is to come as much as my seventh period English class my junior year. Through my English Composition 1113, I have improved my understanding of the
believe that I have grown as a writer as a whole. Going through the process of writing a rough draft, editing that rough draft several times until the final product, although it seemed extraneous, in the end all the work payed off. The essay that seemed to pose the most challenging for me was the inquiry essay. It was not easy to find that balance between being informative, supporting my main arguments with personal knowledge and scholarly sources all while focusing on answering my main question “how
Student Outlines, and it was evident while revising my first project, the personal narrative. The first objective was “Students will identify and apply multiple approaches to the study of language, usage, grammar, diction, and style of standard written English.” In the course, I definitely had to approach the study of language in multiple different ways. I learned about many different writing styles, from the personal narrative of Project One, to the research intensive
make my writing better and more effective. Outcome A can be seen in a few of my pieces of work. In specific, the start of the research essay and the literacy narrative essay. This Outcome describes that I have the ability to write a concise essay due to revising and writing many drafts. Even though we have only had to turn in three rough draft pages of the research essay, I rewrote many parts of it before turning it in for feedback. The feedback that my professor gave me will help me to write an
feedback I got from my previous teachers was generally that I should add more details so that my writing pieces are longer. Therefore, my grades ended up being B’s and C’s with the occasional A. My writing goals for when I graduate are that my essays, narratives, etc. will be longer and more detailed. I hope to write at least a high school level. Writing in your class has been appropriately challenging so far. I feel like I am being pushed further as a writer, improving my skills so one day I’ll be able
is extremely important to me and it often helps me establish my thoughts. Before writing a rough draft on a topic, an outline will allow me to think more deeply and what I would like to convey. Similarly, after printing a rough draft, I enjoy using colored pens to mark it up and analyze my thoughts. Finally, I make any revisions I edited myself or add any ideas others gave me. This results in a final draft, which may or may not be edited more. I often use websites that rate my paper in order to get