Stela's English Language Skills Analysis

Flower believes that a competent writer must achieve to close the gap between themselves and the reader. The writer cannot close on themselves because they must reach their own knowledge. The writer determines the reader’s needs are by adapting to the reader’s “language” and knowledge on particular subjects. In addition, the writer must contextualize to help solve a problem or to develop an opinion. In essence, the writer has to suite the reader's attitude and knowledge for them to create an imagine of what the writer’s overall meaning and lesson.

Based on his argument using a piece of story from his past, the writer conceptually supported his explanatory point of views on how skills can be developed with a passion of understanding the writer’s intention. I believe that the writer of this article addressed fundamental thoughts that should be useful in the process of reading as a writer, and on how to become a better writer.

Lamott compares the process of writing with the painful process of pulling the teeth. She believes that in order to produce a high quality writing, the author must first put together all their ideas and thoughts in form of the “child draft”. This draft determines the flow and dimension

Magaly is, without question, the best writer of her junior class. This is a sentiment that is echoed amongst my colleagues. Ever since I read her first essay in 2014, Magaly’s writing has always been executed at an undergraduate level. She is a careful and creative thinker with an eye for detail. Magaly has a knack to articulate her thoughts and arguments in such a manner that I truly enjoy reading her essays. She also has an expansive vocabulary that serves her well in her writing.

Arguably, there are situations where the tone in the text betrays the author’s insistent perspective concerning writing. For instance, the author argues that a student can pass through the writing process successfully if the teacher chooses to shut up and allow the student to write. In reviewing this particular text, one may argue about the choice of words, however, the tonne also elucidates the author’s viewpoint on the involvement of teachers in the writing process. One of the questions the author has prompted but not answered is how the education system as a whole can be transformed to embrace the concept of writing being a process rather than a product. While the idea is sensible and well thought, its applicability in the education system is a challenge, which the author has not highlighted despite writing being under the umbrella of

In the informational essay “Reading to Write,” King incorporates rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos, to develop his position on the importance of talent and practice in life. Throughout the paper, the author establishes credibility by introducing the specific methods he employs in his everyday life. One sentences states, “The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate-four to six hours a day, everyday”(King 214). King provides this statement to display how his writing skills have strengthened, ultimately informing the audience that in order to develop better literary techniques, you need to read multiple hours of the day.

In literary education, from childhood to maturity, individuals are taught how to write not to improve themselves as critical thinkers, but to fulfill the requirements given to them in a prompt. Whether to analyze or argue, this form of writing has led to a cease of literary improvement in students today, making many question the effectiveness of writing classes. Mike Bunns, in his article “To Read like a Writer”, explores this topic and stresses the necessity for young readers to critically examine the author’s choices in order to improve their own pieces of work. Bunns effectively argues to his audience of college students that improved comprehension comes from focusing on the rhetorical choices authors decide to make in their compositions by tying personal narratives with repetitive questioning throughout his article.

I think it very rare, if not impossible, for a writer to have a naturally sophisticated style. We all begin at an elementary level writing sentences such as ‘I like cats’ to explain our thoughts. This is because sophisticated writing is hard; even as I try to begin this paper, I have difficulty putting my thoughts into writing I deem worthy enough to read. In author Mike Rose’s novel, Lives on The Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared, he describes his struggle to overcome wordiness, grammatical errors, and inaccurate usage of literary devices. Through his teacher’s individualized help, he gained the skills needed to better develop his style.

Connor began making some progress with his reading. He is a beginning reader who relied on picture cues, repetitive text and finger pointing to gain meaning from texts. Connor started to gain some confidence in writing. His writing began to display some emergent writing behaviours. He used pictures and some known letters to convey his ideas.

“Being able to access service such as health and mental health care is very important and in some cases can even be a matter of life or death. It is estimated about 11 millions of people or 4.2% of the population of U.S experiences some level of difficulty in speaking english well to not all”(Linguistic Diverse Population, 2010). It can be expected that these numbers will increase, because of the changing demographic of U.S population. The situation prompted in the video that this is the rising number of foreign patients seeking care here at U.S is becoming an ever expanding challenge for health care providers across the the country so the organization of Fluency their interested in getting people to go their website and ask for help from interpreters. The PSA from Fluency is effective at convincing the audience to those who need help in understanding that person language to go seek those interpreters in their website because: the speaker at the end of the PSA states facts of new language, it warns foreign people if they don’t seek the proper help it can lead to life or death, and use the saying of “We

Over the past month, we have been studying the concept of reading and writing in different communities. To assess this, we have read two different texts. Richard Rodriguez’s the achievement of desire”, from his autobiography “Hunger of Memory”; and Lucille McCarthy’s “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing across the Curriculum” from “Research in the Teaching of English”. Both answer key questions regarding what it takes to become a great reader and writer, however, from the reading that I have done, each one only answers one part of the question. Rodriguez’s main focus is in the aspect of reading, whereas McCarthy mainly focuses on the writing portion. Both do a decent job of analyzing and putting forth a view of how they believe a person can best perform in these environments. This then allows us to use their concepts and create our own version, based on their points of view. But why should we care? Most people at this level of academia will have developed a system of writing that works for them, and will have a difficult time breaking from it if they’re process doesn’t meet the criteria that Rodriguez, and McCarthy put forth. The reason it’s so important is because of implications these ideas have. Both authors put forth concepts that are indirectly related to one another and that are highly beneficial to all who will apply them. They will force you to conform to new environments in order to succeed, this in turn will make you more

In an effort to gain useable and positive feedback from English language learners, teachers must use ongoing assessments. Whereas standardized tests only give information on students during a certain part of the year, ongoing assessments will allow teachers to monitor students’ progress throughout the year. Informal assessments are very beneficial in monitoring the progress of students. One type of informal assessment is the use of role playing. During role playing, students are given opportunities to speak in English dealing with different situations. This assessment will let the teacher observe how well the student is comprehends the scenarios and how they respond to them. This type of assessment is effective because it allows students to put the English language into use increasing their English

From almost 8000 miles away landing here, I not only packed up my luggage full of clothes and shoes, but also had my determination to gain a band- new and successful life here in the United States. I choose here for studying and seizing more opportunity for self-accomplishment. Undoubtedly, China, where I come from, owns the very different system of education and language. Like many of the Chinese students studying abroad, I have gone through the roughest part of that pattern and have been taken a glance of the outside world. I chose to “escape” from where I got used to and started my journey here with my dream of a better and even successful life. It is obvious that language would be the first major problems I need to face directly. As an English language learner here in the United States, probably I am not at the same level as those who are native speakers here. Thus, there will be more problems for me to overcome it and to success. Mixed up with my confidence and faith to achieving, along with my experiences and skills gained in learning language from both China and here, I believe I can achieve the goal of success in EWRT 1A.

As it is for me, I started to recognize myself with some strengths and weaknesses in four skills of English. Actually I am good at writing. I have many ideas when it comes to this skills but it is just difficult to write anything that comes out of your mind in either English professional writing ways or just simple structures of writing. It is because I am not good at grammar and sentence structures. And secondly, my speaking skills are acceptable. In fact, I can talk to anyone in English but the problem is when it comes to a professional conversation or a formal style, I am not accustomed to it yet. Moreover, my listening skills haven't been improved that much. So I can say that I am worst at listening part. And finally, for the reading skills, I think I am a lot better with it. Apparently, I got to understand the notion of the main point of the reading but the unpleasant thing is I do not understand many difficult words. Besides the four English skills, I have also built up my soft skills too. I am indeed learning something which made my insight stronger. In fact, I am habituated to working as a team so I can say that I am a team player. Also, I have learnt and have improved my APA writing style and format and I, too, have understood the process or the structures of writing formal letters. Other than that, I have improved my personality traits.

This course has expanded my knowledge and view of reading and writing vastly. Following each paper, reading, and class discussion I learned more about myself as a student, and the world as a whole. I have found the books Rules for Writers and Ways of Reading thoroughly helpful throughout the course. This class entails a variety of aspects of the problem-posing concept of education; it truly involves the students and teaches them to think, read, and write individualistically, analytically, and clearly.