Karson Cage
Ms. Davis
ENC 1101
16 Oct. 2015
How to Lie to Everyone, Including Yourself Almost every teenager has broken their curfew once or twice in such a way that they find themselves needing a wild story in a fruitless attempt to soothe an apoplectic parent. What can they say that doesn’t make it look like they didn’t blatantly forget or weren’t partying so hard they barely noticed the numbers on the clock saying it was well past the time to go home? While the poor rule-breaking teen continues to take a verbal lashing for their mistake, the only other solution to soften the wrath of a fuming parent is to simply lie. However, lying to a parent can prove to be strenuous because it usually seems that they can see through any child’s lie, whether it be with a story chock full of holes or improper planning, they can bust it within a second. Never fear, there are plenty of ways to fluff the lie into the flawless “truth”. In any scenario where lying is going to take place, knowing exactly what’s going to happen can help in preparing the lie. Being aware of the situation proves to be extremely helpful as the liar is fully aware of what they are going to be facing the moment they step through the doorway or sneak through the window. As someone would study for a test or class, similar preparations have to be made to a lie. Avoid winging it, there is no doubt that the shoddy lies that were conjured up in the care often fail because of poorly executed planning. Even the best
There are many experiences that have shaped the way I write today. For example, during my senior year at Plainfield Central High School, I struggled with finding a way to put my paper together using ideas and words of my own. My senior English teacher always said, “Writing a paper is not always just citing what you found on a website. You need to add your own thoughts and comments to make your paper more personal.” She sat down with me after class and worked on my paper with me to try and teach me a way to find my own words and it worked. She had me write the paper before finding any type of citations on the internet. That way, it was all my own words and then I could find my sources and add them in there and delete anything of my own if needed. Another example is, when I was sitting at my kitchen table struggling to find the words to make the paper have good detail. My mother looked at me and said, “Write how you want it to be written. Write it in the way you believe will make a good paper.” That has helped me tremendously because when I write how I want to write, I generally like how my papers turn out so much more. Another thing that has helped me was, about one time every week I would sit down and write about anything I can think of. It could be what I am looking forward to doing in the future or even just what is on my mind at that moment. I realized that the more I write, the better I get at it.
This memorandum offers insight about writing in the business world and the different challenges people face. I took a professional out to lunch to conduct an interview on the writing challenges he faces in his career.
My friend is going to take a GENENG-103 introduction to College Writing, and I think it is important that before my friend takes the class that he or she understands that writing is a processes. He or she will first need to know what the 5 steps of the writing the process are: pre-writing, writing out a draft, revising, proof reading, and then the final draft. A pre write is time for you to think and find your idea. After you have found your idea and thesis statement you will then start the outline of the paper. After you have your outline written out you can start your rough draft. Your rough draft is the time to write everything down. You will be making sure that your thoughts are organized, that you have developed
Writing in college is often a huge transition for incoming freshman that do not have a very good writing background. I came from a high school where education was not taken very seriously, and the teachers did not take pride in their teaching. My grammar and punctuation skills were weak, and the whole thought of writing a four to six page essay was a very stressful thought. At the beginning of the semester I had already learned more in writing then what I had learned in my whole four years of high school. I have passed essays two and three and have started to see my writing skills progress as the semester goes on. The progress I have made throughout the semester is why I feel I should pass this course. I have learned proper grammar, developing paragraphs, and my incorporation of sources has improved to back up my writing.
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I consider writing as one of the best ways to communicate nowadays. You can convey your ideas in such a way that the reader can feel and experience what he or she is reading.
When I signed up for this course I was not expecting very much out of it. I assumed that, like most typical English courses, I would be learning to write proper essays. Once I saw that I would be writing to share experiences (Christmas tradition), writing to inform (biographical sketch), and writing to analyze (visual analysis) the class seemed easier. I thought this class would be a piece of cake! Unfortunately, I knew little of all the goals and expectations that would be needed from me! However, it was a pleasant surprise. I have never realized all the different types of writing, and how each writing area contains its own audience, purpose, genre, rhetorical situation, voice and tone, and context/medium/genre. Before entering this
This chapter does not only focus on types of assistive technologies that support writing but it also goes into great depths in regards to many different aspects of writing that, on their own or together, can be frustrating for students. The text outlines 3 different elements of writing and these are the task environment, long-term memory and the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, editing and publishing.)
To me, writing requires the strength of making logical words or composing text on paper. Every day through magazines, books, and poetry are examples of when writing is being utilized. Even though it is hard to express my feelings through essays, writing is how I express my thoughts, motivate others, and pour out my feelings.
Writing had always seemed so calculated. Since fourth grade I was taught that when you write a paper for school it should be a five paragraph essay with an opening paragraph, three supporting paragraphs, and then a closing paragraph. If you wrote in this exact format then you were sure to get a good grade. Up until college writing had always lacked creativity for me and seemed more like formula that was to be followed. Writing had always seemed dull to me and more like a chore rather than a chance to express or research ideas that I truly cared about. It was not until I was in my college writing classes that I began to realize that writing involves a lot more than just following a formula and that writing can be in all different forms with various purposes. College Writing I and II has expanded my knowledge on the different forms writing can come in, what are some of the process steps that can be taken, and that overall writing does not have to be a chore.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for all the efforts that you have invested in helping me improve my writing. The efforts that you invested in me did not go in vain. In this course, I have become insightful in regard to the process of writing as whole. Who knew that writing can be challenging yet rewarding simultaneously? Through many challenges that I have encountered in this class, and many exercises comprised in the course, I have come to clearly realize different weaknesses and strengths that I possess when it comes to writing. As the semester was rolling into action, I was straggling with certain elements of the writing process. Unlike many writers, beginning to write was usually the most challenging aspect of the writing process. For many unproductive hours, I would simply stare blankly at my writing equipment while blank thoughts ran through my mind. In addition to my inability to produce words for my writing, I sometimes have problems with coming up with a solid theses statement. Clearly introducing my topic can sometimes be a challenging task. I usually had a tendency of spending great amount of my time on introducing my paper. However, the first conference that we had was an eye-opening session. As I stated in my diagnosis essay that we wrote at the beginning of the semester, I have come to acquire techniques that have helped me resolve these challenges.
Throughout my whole life I have been taught to write many different ways and on how I should approach my writing assignments in and outside of class. But there was one particular method that was taught a lot more than others such as the five paragraphs method. Some assignments were very easy that I could write off the back of my head and some of the harder one’s I have think a lot more critically. All I ever did was follow the five paragraph process and nothing more. This is what I led to believe be my downfall in my writing skills because I was unable to use any other methods. So throughout my essay I will explain the steps of my writing process such as finding my personal space, understanding the difficulties, and
It 's not complicated; we are doing this since young age. Think about it, the first thing we learn when starting the path of learning is listening. A long time ago, my grandfather used to say for me, “Do you listen to learn something or do you listen just to reply?” If you think about it, it’s true, and I believe most of us just listen to reply. Writing skills can never be separated from important skills such as quotation, citation, grammar and spelling. If a writer can establish those tools in combination with each other, then the writing process becomes easier than ever. The most important thing is that writing good takes time and effort. Writing itself may sound easy thing to do, however, a good writer is someone who feels everything around him or her, observe functionality within society and collect information as much as possible. Some people become better and writing just because they love to write about anything. Some writers write about different things or about people or moment that gave them something to write about, simply they will start to write for no reason and they would keep this writing for themselves.
Writing, the source many individuals use the majority of their lives. Writing gives us the source to record and problem solve on a piece of paper. Along with writing comes thinking, a source that constantly goes on in a person’s mind. The thoughts that go through our heads put us where we stand today, thinking of new ideas and putting thoughts into action. Everyone has their own style of writing and thinking, and gives us each a unique perspective of life.
One of language skills that need to be mastered by learners of English in EFL context is writing. The teaching of writing, in general, aims at developing students’ ability to utilize their knowledge effectively in certain text. However, learning to write in English is not easy for non-native speakers of English because L1 writing is different from L2 writing. Silva (1993, p. 669) mentions that “L2 writing is strategically, rhetorically, and linguistically different in important ways from L1 writing.” In addition, Hyland (2003, p. 31) lists a number of issues related to differences between L1 and L2 as follows: