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This chapter of the textbook by E. Shelley Reid’s Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing addresses writing students. Reid uses expository and descriptive types of writing in her text. She describes and explains about the ten different important things when it comes to writing. One example in her chapter is where she explains how to write by the rules, describes the steps on how to be a successful writer and why some people struggle with writing essays or paragraphs sometimes. The writer quoted, “Write about what you know about so that you can show not just tell in order to adapt to your audience’s needs and accomplish your goals. Unless you do a good job showing what you mean, your audience will not understand your message.” (4) She also stated in one of her steps that sometimes the audience or readers of an essay or writing cannot exactly understand what the writer is trying to tell them. She tells her audience to

There was a time that I needed assistance from my professor on understanding some philosophical theory that was discussed in class, but my professor did not really explain the idea well enough for me to understand. I was required to write an essay that compared and contrast the different versions of Utilitarianism, but philosophical ideas were kind of hard for me to follow and understand clearly. I tried to help my professor explain the ideas to me by splitting the main ideas into smaller ideas and then summarizing what they told me in the end. For example, when we talked about John Stuart Mill’s version of Utilitarianism, I started asking about how it originated and then ended with how it is seen today. Having my professor explain to me in more detail helped me better write my paper. As a result, I received an A for the paper.

In terms of goals it is very important to set short term and long term goals. I have set my short term goals as one class at a time, just get a great grade in this class whatever

In order to that, you need to get your point across and relay information clearly. That way the reader will understand exactly what you mean. According to Ayelet Waldman in Beware the Trap of ‘Bore-geous’ Writing, “good writing is essential to readers and impressing your audience” (102). In addition, Waldman states “We can get so caught up in the weaving of our words that we forgot our overarching point.

Participation in class has been no problem for me over the semester. I have only missed one day for English 111 and as for my other classes I have only missed certain credit hour days due to reasons I could not help. I try coming to class prepared with my Little Seagull Handbook and They Say I Say book. I enjoy taking notes as my professor talks in class, lecturing of certain assignments that needs to be done. Peer review is how I use my group assignment time in English 111, which has helped me

Having the capacity to go to class has given me a chance to learn new subjects and ideas and permits personal time to go through with a gathering of different understudies with the larger part

Initially, I pass, it will count as a credit and I will not have to worry about taking the class again in college. Also, it would look great on my college applications and show that I care about my education and advancing my brain knowledge. If I do not pass, I will still be satisfied with myself for keeping with the class. For the most part, I know I will have 17 or less other students who will go through the same hardships in this class.

The biggest reason why struggled the most in elaborating is because of my consistency of getting off topic while i'm writing. I tend to lose focus of the main argument i'm trying to get across and i think that stems from more personal issues in my life to be precise. I tend to write and get off track with a certain task or thought thats not relevant to the paper and i have trouble making things sound cohesive when i get back to writing, One example of that is while I wrote my Bisexual vs Pansexual compare and contrants essay, I had begun talking about the history of the Bisexual movement and some how started to discuss the issue of bisexuals vs swingers. One of the biggest issues i struggled with in writing is expanding my vocabulary. I feel as if I got back into reading and writing as much as i used to it would make my vocabulary much more extensive.

I came into this class expecting to fly through it to complete the necessary credits for college. I got instead was an education through writing that will help me further myself in my future career choices. I wish that I had only worked harder on the essays I was given to write to help my grades and future even more. I valued the lessons and instruction on the different forms of essays that came from attending this class. My next step is to continue that path that was made possible with the skills that I have acquired from this course.

Attitude: After reading chapters 1-4 in my textbook my attitude toward completing this course is optimistic. Writing has always been one of my weaker skills and I am hoping to improve my skills drastically after completing this course. I know the improvement will only come after lots of practice. Just as the common phrase says, practice makes perfect! Being required to take this course will only improve my skills. I feel like I already have a great base to build off of and completing all the course objectives will for sure sky rockets my skills.

When I first started this class and learned that we had to write a paper and do a presentation, I was thrown off and didn’t feel that I needed to try hard. I just wanted to hurry up and get this over with so that I did not have to worry about any of it anymore. I set a goal of passing all my courses with a B or better this semester and raising my GPA

The challenge in first semester was not the actual work,the challenging part for me was having to get it all done and have it turned in on its due date.For example not having “To Kill A Mockingbird” notes and the reading that came with it.I know i am capable of passing this class i just don’t put the effort into all of my work but this semester I am going to stop slacking off and and actually get my work done and have it all due on its due date.

I made my pieces fascinating by adding in descriptive vocabulary, startling statistics, inspiring quotes, and complex sentences. In one of the first essays I wrote, “Hurricane Preparedness,” I began the paper with a sentence that did not describe the topic in depth. To explain, “Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas hard this past August leaving them with a devastating amount of destruction to their city.” This sentence is awfully straightforward and does not elaborate on the topic well enough. By adding in more details, I would have prepared the audience for the essay more adequately. I should have included a more advanced explanatory word instead of “hard.” Nevertheless, throughout this class I was able to learn how to expand on what I am speaking about and find the proper words to explain the topic to its fullest potential. To demonstrate, I introduced my piece, “Coaching Rivalry,” by creating an image for the reader that set the tone for what was ahead. With this intention, I wrote, “Stepping back into the early 1960s, the facility hosting the Duke vs. North Carolina men’s basketball game is packed tight. The crowd goes ballistic after a Blue Devil, Art Heyman, and a Tar Heel, Larry Brown, are pulled apart from an outrageous brawl. This moment is where the intense rivalry between the two teams all began.” Including this short anecdote at the beginning of my paper created a clear and vivid image for the reader. Ultimately, incorporating engaging, descriptive words to make a piece more fascinating will help keep an audience

When I first started the class I was struggling a lot. Since English is my second language, I had many stressful moments that made me think about dropping my classes. But when I thought about my future, I just kept studying even harder, waiting for my performance to improve. As a result, I felt like every time I wrote an essay, it got easier, which tells me that I’m on the right path. In addition, this class has helped me improve my grammar, taught me an important life lesson about sticking on my goal and helped me to enhance my computer skills

For my language Arts goals i am going to set three goals for myself. The first goal is to complete every assignment that i get this semester and i am going to try hard to get the best grade possible on that one assignment. My second goal is when i get all my assignments back i am going to try to get the best grade possible which is a 5 that is why i am going to try my hardest on every assignment that i get to try to get 5’s on every assignment i get. My last goal for Language Arts is to stop being to talkative because