Professor Maloney, Writing is something that I never thought I particularly excelled at. It has always been something that I have had to work hard at and never have I found pieces that I have written to be extraordinary. Writing is though something that I do enjoy doing, especially journalistic writing. In high school, I wrote briefly for my school’s newspaper, and it was something that I thoroughly enjoyed. I did not write on this paper for very long because I started it at the end of my senior year,…
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words to enrich my mind, as I grew older, however, I began to learn more about different cultures and thus wanted to start reading more challenging books, learning valuable lessons along the way as I, at times, became so distracted in the new worlds I would find myself in and become emotionally invested with the characters; however, my relationship with books has allowed me to become an avid reader who truly enjoys the comfort of flipping page after page of thrilling adventures. My fondness for…
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Rongfei Bao Monday, 21, 2014 ESL 400 My Writing experience Writing is a process that takes lots of time, commitment, and understanding to really help us develop our ideas and put them on paper. Through this English class I have learned about a lot of valuable topics which have helped increased my knowledge about the extensive informative history of United States laws (Essay 2&3) that have helped me become a more aware member of our…
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School I had to write my first essay. I was only 10 years old and had never written anything to turn in for a grade. Throughout writing my essay my teacher, Mrs. Wright, helped me figure out how to write in a way my peers would understand and find interesting. Mrs. Wright was by far my favorite teacher, she was understanding and fun, always wearing something yellow. Since my whole class was learning to write at the same time, my two best-friends, Kathlynn and Cassie proof-read my paper. Cassie always…
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My experience with writing is very limited to the academic setting, meaning most of my writing has been for the purposes of a class. I have written many papers when I was in high school on different types of historical events along with reviews of literary works. As far as my writing experience in college, because I am a psychology major I have written studies, along with in my English classes discussing and analyzing papers and rhetoric. English 1301 truly helped me gain more skills as a writer…
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That experience really hurt my feelings as well as my writing. I never took literature seriously. I only saw it as something that was required. I was always expected by other to do well language class and after a while, it was expected by myself as well. Since then, I've continued to try my best in all my classes, especially language arts classes. I passed Ms.Lee’s English class with a ninety-eight. I continued my learning in English by taking English III and college English I. I plan to continue…
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and that man everything changed! I returned back from the Korea only a week ago. I am grateful to you for making my dream come true and now I am living there. So, let's have dinner in the place where the magic happened to us." "Okay, it will be wonderful, Jane. How did you guess that I want to eat? By the way, I want to thank you for everything too." "Oh, I forgot to introduce to you my boyfriend Jim." "Nice to meet you, Jim. I am John." This…
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such as writing, speaking, listening, or even using body languages. Like everyone, I always have issues on my mind on each single day. Writing is also one of the parts of my issues in my life. Writing in English usually makes me feel exhausted and panic all the times when I’m sitting down, beginning to think, and trying to have some idea about the topic that I’m going to write about. As a write, I had many wonderful experiences, terrible experiences, and challenge experiences with writing throughout…
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difficulty on writing the English language. My goals upon taken this class is sample, number one is to get as proficient as I can get in writing. Two is to get formulize with using the proper verb and subjects correctly. Last but not least, to enhance my mind in the English language. My expectation is to become more confident in my university career, my professional and personal life. While writing my academic paper, I focus on tackling one task at a time. My biggest challenges when writing for others…
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My life changing experience with literacy took place in 2001 in the tenth grade of high school. This event happened during a high school English class I read a book, A Child Called It. It was the first time I finished a book and had an emotional experience too. I have had emotional experiences prior to this event but never thought a book would make me experience this as well. This book opened my eyes to the world around me. I always thought of books to be boring until I read this one. I have never…
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