As a future teacher I was aware that literacy would play an important role in my professional career; consequently, I was concerned of the assessment my writing would receive from the online tool. My concern was confirmed when I received a "needs toning" score from the Writers Diet and a "B" from Paperrater. Errors included the overuse of prepositional phrases and the addition of an expletive. Additionally, my mother- a former English teacher- and partner found a long and complicated sentence that could be written more simply as well as some issues with active and passive voice. (could put in about limitations of online checkers)
I believe the errors within my writing can be attributed to my writing process producing sentences and ideas that make
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This may be a result of a large portion of my syntactic knowledge being unconscious. For example, my writing process is based on how sentences flow and sound according to my view rather than following a conscious grammatical system. When reading Georke and Grelliers (2014) principles on academic writing I realised that certain principles I had never consciously used in my writing but still unconsciously followed. Having syntactic and semantic knowledge in an unconscious form is mentioned by McDevitt, Ormond, Cupit, Chandler and Aloa's (2013) in their explanations of language development, they further point out that literacy instruction can help bring some syntactic knowledge to a conscious level (p.357) .
My plan to improve of academic literacy will focus mainly on improving and expanding my syntactic
The Great Depression, pulled the American economy to its all-time low. The government mitigated the depression with several methods. When the stock market collapsed, people started losing their jobs and then their homes to the banks. People were desperately searching for jobs even if it’s terrible, until the government formed the CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was formed to provide hope and dignity to young American citizens and their future generations.
In my future writing, I can improve by focusing on the areas that have been brought to my attention, such as fragmented sentence structures, capitalization, punctuation, and MLA formatting mistakes. I hope to enhance my writing skills through better planning, drafting, proofreading, and revising. I can become a better writer by building upon my current writing abilities and paying more attention to my
Valderrama and Minka Kelly, Valderrama’s new girlfriend, have been enjoying their new relationship together south of the border in Mexico for the second time.
To improve my writing based on the online tools feedback and analysis I will engage in more reading and writing. The first point of reference is to utilise text book such as the Communication Skills Toolkit: Unlocking the Secrets of Tertiary Success by Grellier and Goerke (2010). In addition The Little Red Writing Book: Better Sentences (n.d.) offers another medium for writing effective sentences. The benefits of The Little Red Writing Book entail sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar and syntax where at the end of each section, there are activities for practice. Furthermore, text books and tutor’s notation for required discipline will enhance my learning in reading and writing.
When I stop to think about the memory’s that I have made during my first semester of college; there are both good and bad pieces or times that present themselves. Often with many things there are gray areas, and writing would fall in there for me. I fortunately understand now that I have times where I can over look many of my writing flaws. Such as sentence structure! This by far was my biggest problem in this class, and I fully understand why. Personally I have times that will type up a paragraph and never notice the mistake. That is until someone points it out to me. It’s almost like my brain knows that something is wrong with it, but for some unknown reason it won’t register when I’m revising my paper. So as a writer I have realized that I need to take advantage of people around me and get their feedback on my essay’s; because
On June 5th, 2018, I was assigned to complete a Crime Incident Report by MSGT Bunn. I completed the assignment but failed to proofread my Crime Incident Report accurately. Multiple mistakes could have been caught if I had proofread my assignment correctly. Each grammar mistake I made was simple and should have been easy to catch. However, I did not catch these mistakes and submitted a poor-quality Crime Incident Report.
Being a perpetually anxious person, I tend to be particular in my daily life. I need to clean my room and make my bed before I leave. I must sleep at 9:00pm every night. I have to wake up at 6:00am every morning. I need to do a certain thing at a specific time, or it throws me off. Writing allows me to be messy. It allows me to vomit words and struggle to write a coherent sentence before finally, my thoughts are realized onto the paper. My process is wonderfully disorganized. It is starting to write, eventually erasing everything I've written, starting all over again, realizing that I was straying from my point, and retyping it a second time. My process is becoming frustrated at the pretentious introduction. It's wanting to smash my computer
One of the fears that I have about the process of writing is the inability to write clear and concise sentences that the reader can understand. Sentence clarity frightens me as I have what I want to say in my head, however, it does not always come out perfectly when I put the thought into writing. When transferring my thoughts into writing I typically form run on sentences and mix my words together. This is where my fear of clarity becomes an issue. When writing clearly, I often assume that my reader understands or has a prior knowledge on my topic. Typically, this leads me to form incomplete sentences or the leaving out of an essential piece of information that gives the sentence its meaning. Along with the fear of the inability to write
The two errors that present the biggest challenge to me in writing are comma splice and unnecessary commas. All throughout high school and into college these two errors have been my biggest downfall. In Fall 2014 semester, I took English 111 and my teacher had written on every paper that I wrote that I have to be careful of both comma splice and unnecessary commas. I can use this class as an opportunity to correct these errors by referring back to this book. In my other class, we didn’t use a book so I never had something to help me understand what exactly I was doing wrong. I hope that with help from my classmates and my teacher I can overcome this obstacle I face in my writing. In addition, I plan to use the book to help me when I am uncertain
After this semester of English 102, at Bristol Community College I feel that I have gained the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in many ways. I don’t just look at grammatical error, but instead I look for ways to make my sentences more effective and concise. Nevertheless, I hope that this strategy will continue to help me improve my writing even further on in the future.
Many creative minds around the world have their own special ways to prepare themselves for writing. Through writing they can create award winning novels, books, and stories. Out of all these creative minds, none of them have any similarities on how they prepare themselves for writing. Most people assume that writers just sit down in a chair and crack their knuckles then start brainstorming for their writing . Everyone has their own different ways they prepare themselves physically and mentally. Personally before I start writing I have to make myself physically comfortable. For this to happen I have to place myself in a cold and quite environment. Then set a comfortable chair, a clean desk, a laptop, and a drink along with some snacks. After being physically comfortable, I have to then make myself mentally prepared to write by putting ideas down
It was a really nice meeting you! You wanted me to write about my writing process and here I’m writing it to you in this letter.
In the first assignment, I assessed my writing with the online tool PaperRater. The score received was below average on almost all fronts, which surprised me. I established a goal to be writing weekly and applying online tools to provide feedback. While I have not completed this goal in a way I expected, my writing style has been enhanced. I put this improvement down to my research and study throughout this unit, as well as entering into a new workplace that requires a higher level of professionalism than my previous workplace.
Even though my grammar has improved during the progression of this class, I still have a lot to learn before my knowledge of grammar can contribute to my writing. I have never had an aptitude for
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The Talented Mr Ripley by Anthony Minghella present similar criticisms of society to a large extent. Both of these texts consider the criticisms of rich social contexts (wealth and status), societal morality (whether a society is good or not. Status [can lead to the wrong people being in a high position i.e. making bad decisions affecting the community/society] Appearance [society appears to be moral/good (if you’re from a higher status) {dickens criticises this fact} but in actuality is not (if you’re from a lower status]) and the class system (status + wealth) experienced in these societies. Through the desire to improve oneself, these two texts present these criticisms through the concerns of wealth and status. These concerns are interrelated and are reflected through their different contexts. This is due to them being created during two different time periods with Minghella’s 1990’s society and Dickens original 19th century criticisms. Despite these two texts being written in these times they are both focusing on time periods before their creation with The Talented Mr Ripley being set in the 1950’s and Great Expectations being from the early 19th century. This sets the idea that these criticisms are an everlasting problem in society.