Expository writing

My intension for all of my essay assignments during this semester were to have strong supporting examples for the thesis statements, use proper grammar, and choose good advanced words to show more professional mind. With good advises from Smarthinking tutors, my dad, and my peers, I have progressed my papers toward better essays. I have saved my papers individually as I corrected them to show the progressions. In my argumentative essay, Income Inequality: Extinction of the American Dream, I used

I taught all five of Mr. Smith’s seventh grade English classes on November 10, 2014. Before designing my lesson, I met with Mr. Smith. We discussed the needs of his students. He felt that the students needed more practice expanding their reading abilities, citing recent changes to the Virginia Standards of Learning test as a deciding factor. The English SOLs ask students to read and analyze text that they are unfamiliar with. The only way for teachers to prepare students for the SOL, is to help

"How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler. "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler is an essay over the author 's belief on the importance of marking or writing inside a book. Adler 's primary purpose is persuasive. He writes to convince the reader to partake in writing in one 's own books when reading to become more efficient. Adler 's secondary purpose is expressive because of the way he describes his least favorite type of reader: "There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the

scene breakdown and treatment combined which was not the task, making it difficult to mark. Some issues within the document that I wish to raise are formatting (abiding by editing house requirements, audio), the structure (layout, scene consistency), writing (readability), and characters (setting up the protagonist, inclusion of characters). The mere physical format of the scene breakdown does not adhere to the standards of the document expectations nor the task set. Within the document, there are

During the summer at the age of five, I was told by my parents that we were moving to America, particularly in Miami, Florida for my dad’s job. I have seen the many faces America has had by its representation on television, like how the land is home of the free and how everyone is rich. Although, when I got to America, it was nothing out of the ordinary or necessarily special. It was overall normal compared to my home country, Haiti. Miami had skyscraper buildings, towering palm trees, and luxury

Dyslexia is a learning disability in which people have difficulty reading, writing, and even in subjects such a math and music. In my case, I found that subjects such as reading and writing were harder for me compared to other kids my age. I was half way through my fourth grade year when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. While at first this was something I hated about myself. Now being dyslexic is something that makes me who I am today, and this is something I should never be ashamed of. By the time

“Why I Write” Some questions to consider… What is Orwell’s thesis in this essay? The thesis of the essay is that writing was Orwell’s inevitable and irresistible destiny, although shrouded by his attempts to abandon it. It had always been inexorably and intricately woven into his person, manifesting itself first at 5 or 6, and then ultimately impressing itself on his life with irrevocable and fulfilling finality. Discuss, using examples from this essay, whether or not he successfully achieves

Coming into Writing Composition, I thought it wouldn’t be too much of a struggle. However, I did not expect to learn as much as I did. I thought I knew almost all I could know about writing and that this class would be just as easy as my high school English courses. Instead, I realized that college writing and high school writing were very different and I had to put in much more time and research than I have ever had to do before. Throughout the semester, I have definitely improved my diction and

His method of testing involved altering the mood of participants with a “test” of verbal abilities, and a subsequent attribution task to measure how affect influenced their perceptions. To alter participants’ moods, a sentence-completion test was used. The average completion score was at nineteen sentences, while the minimum completed by all was fourteen sentences. The “happy” group was told that answering seven to thirteen correctly was “average” and thirteen or higher constituted an “above average”

While analyzing my cartoon, I looked for symbolism, the use of labels and words, the intended irony, and where and why Kal exaggerated a certain characteristic in his cartoon. As I looked at my cartoon I quickly marked down every part that I found interesting or unique and noted in which category it fell under as well as the significance of this observation. By looking at the different aspects of the cartoon, rather than at the cartoon as a whole, I was able interpret multiple subliminal meanings