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beginning, feeling of formal writing strikes in mind while reading the paper and it is maintained throughout the whole writing. Coherence, clarity and attention grabber particularly at the onset of first paragraph through definition of discourse community, in the fifth paragraph via counterargument and many examples of real life experiences makes the paper interesting and always engaging to read. These are the strengths of this paper. I have found few surface errors and would suggest ratifying them

discussions with other peers and lastly I learned how to improved my writing skills in general. A major lesson that I learned was to use different rhetorical styles when writing to help make your paper make more sense and seem more together. There are tons of different types of rhetorical styles that you can add to a paper but the ones that I enjoyed using this semester were clear, swift or sweet. I loved writing in a clear style because it was simple and did not

ever given much thought about revising your paper? We correct the spelling, fix the grammatical errors, and give it one last read through then we hand it in. Revision is one of the most important pieces when writing an essay, but do we overlook it? I most certainly did until I read Barbra Tomlinson’s essay, “Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision”. Tomlinson opened my eyes and I see a whole new light when it comes to revising my papers. In George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s book

Throughout this entire project it was hard for me to grasp what it actually meant. I never heard of rhetoric before, so when you told us we needed to write a paper on it I was completely confused. Now that I know what it means I feel like I could teach someone else what rhetoric is about. I liked this paper because it made me go out of my comfort zone and try something new. If I were to of gotten this in college I was would of been confused and stressed out on what to write about. I struggled at

English is not my native language, but it is definitely the only language I have used in my writings. Throughout the papers I had written in high school and college, I have gained many professional and competent methods to write and to argue. Yet, I lack the ability to comfortably utilize those methods in my essays. I want to make those writing methods my own and to craft concise, powerful and impacting arguments and points. The strength and weaknesses of my writing can be expressed by the most recent

a graded paper there would just be words crossed out, or punctuation corrections. There would never be any explanation as to why I need to correct this, or why this is wrong. I would go over the corrections and wonder how this is wrong and why does a comma go there but why doesn 't a comma go here. When reading the corrections and notes you made on each of my papers this year, I more easily understood why something was wrong. I might not have made the same corrections in the next paper, but each

all writers, I do know my weaknesses when it comes to my writing. Personally, I believe my strengths as a writer consist of having organization and logic within my papers. My weakness is having a lack of creativity. I have always had difficulty expressing creativity through my writing and have resorted to writing clean-cut, dry papers. I took this class for a degree requirement, but also possibility to improve my writing skills. Over the semester, this course has polished my writing skills and has

This is my second year in COTC and I took GENR-91 last year. I am from china, and English is my second language. I came to the United States when I was 15-year-old and live in Dublin for almost six years and I have my high school in Dublin too. And I need to drive 40 minutes to get here every day. Before I attend to COTC I use one year to take the non-credit English class at Columbus state community college. After I graduate from the high school I feel like I am not ready for the college level class

Final Reflection Essay In English 111 I have struggled with many assignments over the course of the semester, picking myself up over time from countless mistakes on papers, to procrastinating on basic class work assignments. Before Fall semester, I had no idea what college would be like, or how hard it could be. Things were not the same as high school; it was different to a point where college seemed a lot harder than it was supposed to be. In English 111, I got the chance to meet new students

many different techniques for my papers throughout the term. Some of the techniques and methods were more helpful than other techniques and methods. I excelled at some method that James D. Lester recommended to try and I failed at some other methods that she recommended. They were some methods that I haven't grasp yet and can definitely work on in the future. In this paper, it will showcase what I did well at during the writing process of writing a research paper and what I could have improved while