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    For me, writing has always been a challenge. I always felt like that I could not express myself with the words I had been taught or that somehow I had been left out on the instructions on how to properly write. It’s always frustrated me that writing has been a challenge, and that may be why I enjoy reading so much because other people seem to have a way with words that I don’t. I love reading other people’s words a lot more than my own so much so that I tried avoiding writing as much as possible

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    personification; these are just a few writing techniques that I do not use when I write. Why? Most of the writing done by myself is boring essay’s I am forced to write in order to get a good grade. Though I received mostly A’s on my papers it was hard and annoying to write papers. In my history as a writer any subject, assignment, or just writing that I have done that I enjoyed was exciting and fun to write. When composing papers on subjects I am interested in, writing becomes more enjoyable. Growing

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    been an experiences. Over the course; I have grown and learned more on different skills of writing. I been a student at Colorado Christian University for about a year. One specific experiences that I’d recall, was when I had to write a letter to a co-worker. I thought I communicated well, however the feedback that I received told me the opposite. The co-worker told me that I had broken English in my writing. He told me that he was confused on what I was trying to explain. Even though what he said

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    beyond this period in history. Before the invention of the concept of typography, writing was already a popular form of visual communication, the history of which dates to the use of hieroglyphs or pictograms in ancient times (Siebert). Per John Siebert, before the invention of the printing press which revolutionized the practice of typography, the alphabets, and phonographic writing, these ancient forms of writing were used by civilizations to express their ideas. The very first recorded examples

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    Ashland University Take a moment to reflect on your day, how often do you find yourself writing. We live in a world that revolves around technology. If you think about it, we have email on our cell phones so we do not have to write letters, we have cars that can park themselves, and we even have televisions that are smarter than some human beings! Despite how much technology surrounds us, writing is something that will never go away. Written language is something we experience in every day

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    Effects On Writing

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    The Effects on Writing Due to Social Media Writing has been around for as long as we know, however social media has been rising and it has been affecting many aspects including student’s abilities to write. There have been constant debates where they discuss whether social media has negatively or positively affected the ability to write. Social media has affected the student’s abilities, but mostly in the ability to write. Social media on writing has many pros and cons which makes people question

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    Emergent Literacy

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    literacy is used to describe how a young child interacts with books and when reading and writing, even though they could not read or write in the usual sense of way. Emergent literacy is a process that takes place over the timeframe from birth until a child can read and write in what we think to be a standard sense. The key to term literacy is the consistency of all parts of language: speaking, listening, reading, writing, and viewing. Some people believe that, up until a child starts school he/she will

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    limits I did not even know I had. As I began writing, I became more aware of my strengths and weakness, enjoyments and frustrations, and future plans and goals. After exploring all papers, there are strengths and weaknesses prevalent throughout. It is important to know these qualities and capacities in order to leverage certain strengths and improve specific weaknesses. Using this knowledge, I came up with one overall weaknesses throughout my writing that show up in multiple instances. One of them

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    artists. Shields shows that “borrowing has been with us from the beginning”, citing the New Testament and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra as “composites of numerous sources” (740). His essay demonstrates that borrowing is prevalent in music and writing, as artists take inspiration from preceding artists and from their

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    Part A Despite its importance, writing is not given enough attention in schools compare to reading. Since the turn of the 21st century, “there have been a number of significant changes in the contexts in which we teach and in which our students learn to write”. Our culture has taken a digital shift in all aspects of life, including schooling and the way students are exposed to writing curriculum. Robinson, McKenna and Conradi state that “The context of schooling has also changed, with programs and

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