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    Writing Reflection Essay

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    throw the entire flow of the paper off balance, therefore it was added and immediately cut. The first layer of icing on my paper was intense; cutting words, adding works, redefining sentence structures, and removing my trademark awkward phrasing. The first to get revamped was the thesis. The original thesis lead to questions and issues based on the word hope, that I did not address in the length of my paper. In order to remedy the situation, there was a minor phrase that was cut and replaced with the

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    Goals for English Essay

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    Another problem that I’m having in my writing that I would like to improve next marking period is using less words. I tend to use too many words and make my writing too wordy. It’s not that I repeat sentences, I just tend to add too many details that aren’t even needed. I plan on fixing this problem by always going through my writing and seeing which words I could take out that would not make the sentence any different. I believe that writing is all about quality and not quantity

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    put the information into even smaller blocks to emphasise the succinct style of writing because I felt that it was still too difficult to follow; so I used more bullet points and used capitals, underlining and italics to emphasise key words and phrases. Also in the graphology of the piece I have used dashes in order to more effectively show where the reader would give a slight pause. An example is in 'a hundred compressions a minute - just under two a second'. In

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    stage of processing was (Semantic) the easier the sentence was to remember. E.g. the Deeper semantic test was remembered better than the Shallow because it required more analysis and they were placed in an order in which the words linked together and made sense. * Bransford et al also found that a more distinct sentence would be remembered more because it stands out. This was tested using " a mosquito is like a racoon because they both have haired jaws

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    He hears his father's voice and the words conjure up images in his child's mind of a cow and a little boy walking down the road. The words have the power to create. He hears the music of language in songs. The artist takes things literally from the beginning. "Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learned them by heart: and through them he had glimpses of the

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    line10-11) This shows that it is at a whole other level that has to be deciphered to be able to understand and also suggests that can be difficult to capture. Lutz also uses repetition to give the definition. He states, “It is the incongruity between the word and referent, between seem and be, between the essential function of language…” (Lutz line 15-16) This emphasizes the length of the effect doublespeak can have. Lutz begins to structure his essay into subsections to further explain doublespeak. The

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    Allusions in “I Am a Cripple” Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated (dictionary.com). There's a stigma over the word disabled with its negative connotation. Nancy Mairs, author of “I Am a Cripple, dislikes this word because she thinks that the English language incorporates too many euphemism in our speech. Mairs wants people to use more straightforward language, even if it might be offensive to others. In “ I Am a Cripple”

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    should be using at least 20 words, this includes nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, and social words, by the time they are 24-months-old the toddler should use at least 100 words and should generate a combination of 2 words together (Lowry, 2012). Lowry (2012) indicated that “memorized chunks” do not count as 2-word combinations. Examples given by Lowry (2012) are “doggie gone”, “eat cookie”, or “dirty hands.”. If a child expressive vocabulary is less than 50 words then they are considered to

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    “The Dance” In discussions of “My Papa’s Waltz,” one controversial issue has been that it is about a contumelious relationship between Roethke and his drunk father. On the one hand, some readers argue that it is about Roethke and his father dancing. On the other hand, many readers contend that it is about rape. Others even maintain it is just Roethke walking his intoxicated father home. However, after deconstructing the poem, it becomes increasingly undeniably clear that it is about Roethke and

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    A Litany Poem

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    elements to show that one event can change one’s life for forever. Orr uses imagery to show the reader that events can mentally scar one’s memory, in which a person vividly remembers that moment perfectly. To do this Orr uses lots of descriptive words and phrases that bring the reader to visualize the scene of the poem. An example is, "the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood"(2). The speaker has this image implanted in his mind, because it is the first thing that he sees right after

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