The Famous Last Thoughts Of My Dying Hope For Success

Upon entering Columbia College, writing was one of my weaker areas. It was very important that I gained the necessary knowledge and confidence to become a better writer. I didn’t know how to express myself and felt as though my writing was not my interest. As a result of taking English 101, I have gained a better understanding on how to properly research and build a satisfactory paper. Every paper that was assigned seemed like a struggle to complete. Before entering this class, I did not know the meaning of a thesis or why it was important, however, I obtained this skill quickly. I noticed that every paper has an argument and the thesis helps clarify the rebuttal. Now, I have a new outlook on writing. It’s a way to express my thoughts and allow others to see things through my eyes. There is no doubt that I still have a long way to go, but I know if I continue to write, I will get better. Just as I developed more skills in class, the various papers assigned helped to better structure the writer in me. In addition, the subject areas were not only interesting, but very informative and made it much easier to write about my experiences.

The narrator is bothered by the silent raven, and he is comparing his sorrows to the raven. In the poem it says "till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore"

I was pushed constantly to work harder at my writing. I studied and practiced several new techniques and methods for prewriting and organizing the essays I found so hard to create. At first, I had quite a few bad days and quite a few subpar essays. My grades would vary greatly from paper to paper. This really scared me, as I hoped to keep myself from drastically dropping in my grades. Yet, I wanted to maintain my grade point average so I had no choice but to succeed and impress around every corner. I began to pour in, even more, work and apply all of the newly learned skills from that class into my mind. I hoped that soon I would be able to find a system for writing that helped me form proper

Throughout the course of this semester in AP Lang, my eyes have been opened to many of the weaknesses I never knew I had in writing. Coming into this semester, I had heard about the difficulty of this class, but was not unduly worried about not receiving an A; I have always considered myself as a competent if not strong writer. However, after failing to attain desired grades on several important essays, I was devastated, and realized that although I had mastered the basics of grammar and writing, there was still much for me to work on. Also, I did not understand that much of my grade in AP Lang would be determined by speaking in front of others, which is not my strong suit. What I have come to find is that writing essays containing all of the new information we have learned throughout the semester, such as requirements for different types of essays and good writing strategies, takes a lot of work, time, and thinking. Unfortunately, my procrastination caused me to only get done what had to be done instead of putting in the extra work and truly understanding everything.

Every event changes you even in the slightest way, on the other hand, changes are much more noticeable when there’s a bigger journey. In Joan Bauer’s, Hope Was Here, Hope and her aunt Addie, who is also her legal guardian, move to wisconsin after a disaster at their old diner. They work for a man named GT at the Welcome Stairways diner. GT soon becomes mayor but the leukemia got worse, and by the end, he passes away. Hope, the protagonist, changed from the beginning because now, she has a better appreciation for people around her and she’s overall stronger and kinder, not that she wasn’t kind before.

Completing freshman composition is one of the greatest accomplishments I have achieved throughout my high school career. I have experienced an immense amount of improvement on my writing as well as a huge deal of stress throughout the semester. In the past, writing was never one of my strong suits; however, I have learned quite a bit, for example, how to use semicolons, write with metacognition, and how to correctly do a works cited. During my time in this class, I have: reflected, set goals, learned the writing process, tracked my progress, and learned a huge deal about myself, life and college.

After a grueling first quarter, I was completely miserable, with terrible grades, low self-esteem, and no end in sight. I was hanging on to the hope that there would be some epiphany moment, a moment where suddenly my writing soared, along with my grades. That change did happen, but not all at once‒ it began during the third quarter, when my teacher, Ms. Boynton, asked me to stay after class, along with five other students. She asked if we would each be interested in participating in The Atlantic and College Board Essay Contest, in which we would each submit an analysis of a famous American speech. I was truly stunned that she had chosen me over so many other students in the class, since I had felt so lost for so many weeks, but it was exactly what I needed as motivation to keep on improving my writing. As I worked closely with her on my contest submission and other class work, I came to realize how much she cared about me and wanted to help me succeed. With that being said, she never made it easy; she continually pushed me, knowing that I could always do better if I set my mind to it. Last September, I began her demanding course with the intention of purely surviving, not necessarily thriving, but that

I was not nervous about writing this time. I looked at my paper and racked my brain trying to figure out how to cut my essay down from seven pages to three. It was a challenge, my essay was very detailed and filled with rich dialogue. The thought of cutting it, caused me near physical pain. I had poured my heart into that essay and now I had to cut up my work to meet length requirements. Saying that it was a challenge was an understatement. Despite this, I felt confident that I could do it, and I started revising my essay. The first thing I tried was cutting out portions of it. But after reading it, it felt flat, so I had to try another approach. I decided paraphrasing would be the better choice. I cut out everything that didn’t follow the main idea, and paraphrased nearly every piece of dialogue in my story. When I was finished, I had three and half pages. I made a decision, the essay couldn’t be cut down anymore without my story suffering for it, so I left it as it was. The next week I received a nearly perfect grade. Had I been faced with this decision in the beginning of the course, I would not have made the same choice. I would have second guessed myself, tried to shorten my essay even more, and weakened my story. My writing confidence had definitely improved. Now it was time to face my last obstacle, and write the final draft of my persuasive

The first day I walked into Freshman Composition I had the idea that everything assigned was going to be extremely frustrating and difficult, as this is a college class. Equally important, my expectations for the class was to earn at least a B, further my writing abilities, and learn more about college. As the semester started, I noticed that my writing was not at the college level and I needed to learn how to improve it. Along with improving my writing, I was also able to learn about college life. With this essay turned in and handed back, I began to realize my writing needed practice and critiquing. Furthermore, I gave myself goals to achieve in Freshman Composition, I have learned useful tools to improve my writing, and I have learned more

Ever since Junior year of High School when my English teacher announced,“We will be writing an extensive amount of essays in this class to prepare you for the AP Test.” After my teacher explained how the class will be for the next year, I knew that I would not be fond of writing essays. I did not love to write essays because I knew I could be utilizing my time in doing something that I would appreciate. Also, while writing essays I found it stressful to write a certain amount of pages regarding to a certain topic and being formatted in a certain way. In addition, I always have trouble either putting clear ideas on paper or supporting my ideas with evidence that are clear as well. However, now that I know I will be writing a bulk of essays this

Ranging from syntax to learning how to fully comprehend Bloom's Taxonomy Level 3, to creating a Hook, to Say-Mean-Matter, to making a thesis/conclusion. Out of everything I wrote this year, my literary analysis paper was by far the absolute worst one I have written, without a doubt. Writing my literary analysis paper took me more, substantially more time than expected, even though I already had everything going, and was ready to start writing. I kept doubting myself, saying to myself, “ that is not what the song is saying,” and kept going through thousands upon thousands of ideas until I found one that I was satisfied with. Time was running out, 1 week to go, Friday night, I was sitting down on the floor putting all the words together. Then it struck me when those words hit: everyone, nightmares, repeat, problems, no heart, empathy, will not give up until everything is “right,” love, and pathetic. It was at that moment I realized what the song meant, and I was brimmed with excitement and went to take a shower and went to sleep because tomorrow was already today. For the course of that week, I spent most of it rushing through homework to get to English, focusing on the paragraphs, fixing every little detail in every sentence, and barely having time to add strong words to it in its final hours. Finally, the due date had arrived, and I was afraid of doing badly as there was a lot more to add than what was there, but nonetheless, time was not on my side I, and I turned it in. Checking back to the essay now, I realized that there is still much more to write than what was there, so many things I did not fixate

The old adage considered it an error to enhance something that already works such as, if the system, plan, or method is working extremely well then there is really no reason at all to transform or modify it (If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, 2016). According to the article, It's Famous Last Words: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, stated that,” the digital age, if you persist with an inflexible IT strategy until something breaks, your business could break (Waterhouse, 2014).” Success and triumph comes from the organization rapidly marketing their offerings, how they form their IT services, and how much do they know about the essential roles that IT operates when it pertains to the renovation of the organization. In my opinion, I believe the

Throughout this semester there are many skills that I have noticed have improved through the constant writing of essays for this class. The one that I find most noticeable is a habit I had long struggled with which was essentially my tendency to be over necessarily wordy when writing my essays. I believe that I was able to somewhat fix this subconsciously, just by knowing that I was no longer in high school, and could no longer get by with just attempting to fill up my word count. I also believe I have greatly improved in my topic selection. In high school I would throw caution to the wind and just pick whatever topic came to mind just in an effort to get it done. I have been much more calculated in college, and I believe that it has helped me write better essays. While these were the

When I restarted my college career to make sure as many opportunities in the corporate world would be available to me as possible, an English writing class was not where I wanted to begin. However, it was a requirement and I had no choice if I wanted to earn my college degree. Before taking this English class, I seldom wrote more than a general correspondence email or letter, and I never really thought about how well I wrote them, or were they even effectively written to convey the point I was trying to make. I was quite humbled by my grade on the second essays of this course. I thought I could write better than I actually can. This was an eye-opening experience that left me feeling like (knowing should I say) I am a sub-par writer.

My research argument essay, “A Growing Trend in Cyberbullying and How It Could End,” was the most significant in my progress towards my learning outcome because this paper was one of the first instances that I went through the writing process, thoroughly. It took more dedication to complete the writing units and requirements of this class, but I can say that I am leaving with great knowledge to help me progress through my next few years at the university and beyond. I am picky when it comes to writing and I have worked on that during this course. I know that I will have to write all different types of essays throughout my college years. The other units were where I struggled the most