For all the people who do not know and say it is too easy. You are walking out of your classroom at the end of the night trying to figure out what you are going to do. You know that you have to follow instructions completely or points will be taken off. You have to figure out what you are going t...
In "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction," Robert Coles says that "in shaping an article or book, the writer can add factors and variables in two directions: social and cultural and historical on one hand, individual, individual or idiosyncratic on the other" ( Coles 177 ). ...
Many people believe that being capable to read and write is not crucial for everyday life. People who have a substantial amount of education are the only ones that are considered literate. Today there are a multitude of people with very little or no academic training. These people are indeed illi...
HOW CHEMISTRY IS RELATED TO COOKING My chemistry class was told to write a paper about how chemistry is related to cooking. Now if you were a normal teenager like me and a teacher gave you this assignment you would give them the same face I gave my teacher. A confused, are you serious sort...
Writing skills assessment in general is what I consider average and could use some upgrading in style, spelling and sentence structure. The amount of written information and type also depends on my knowledge base of the subject. If it is technical, I usually feel more comfortable, since I have a m...
When writing a successful essay, there is a certain pattern you must follow. In this pattern there are methods and techniques you can use to make your paper not only more suitable for its topic, but also more entertaining for the reader. By following simple steps, I will explain the methods and tech...
Our writing purpose - The goal of expository writing is to explain or inform our audience about a specific topic. For the audience, the topic is often vague or abstract on the surface. Our job as writers is to move the audience from vague to specific. Successful expository writing takes a broad topi...
Lord of the Flies This was a very interesting book. I found it is sort of a cross between Alive and Hatchet. Because the book is really addictive and written so excellent, it did not take me long to get into the book, which is something I usually have a problem doing. The characters were s...
Course Description 1101 ENGL 1101 English Composition I (3-0-3) 3 semester credit hours. A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exploration, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of res...
For class, I was required to read six essays, each centered on the topic of university education, map out their key points, find how the essays connect under the conversation of university education, and how they differ. For my map, I chose to do a simple colored bubble chart with lines connecting e...
The need and importance of listening in business organization is evident. Listening is the most frequent, perhaps the most important type of on-the-job communication. A good listening increases efficiency at all levels. The human relations are built strongly where there is a good listening. Studie...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee In "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", the author informed its readers of the history of settlement of the United States. This story is told from the point of view/perspective of the Indians. The settling was at the expense of a group of Indians that went by the nam...
The phenomenon of writing has been invented independently five separate times in the history of man. While History textbooks almost exclusively talk about the writing of Mesopotamia and Egypt, writing has also been developed in the Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica. This strange phenomenon has le...
The world we live in is not the same one our parents or grandparents grew up in. Technology has advanced at an astonishingly rapid rate. My own generation has grown up with the technology, and we have always had it. Personally, I cannot imagine not having access to a cell phone and a computer-or qui...
As an educator, my mission is to provide a supportive, all inclusive curriculum, develop partnerships with parents, and respect cultural diversity, while encouraging students to learn through interaction, exploration, and experimentation. Among these things, I plan to teach balanced literacy in my first grade classroom. My classroom will be student centered, encouraging my students to be active participants. They will be encouraged to explore and seek out new things on their own. Inclusion is very important in my classroom, as it should be in any classroom. ...
